Acclaimed writer, editor, professor and commentator Roxane Gay has been chosen as the new judge for the University of Georgia Press’s Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Gay follows Lee K. Abbott and Nancy Zafris as the latest distinguished writer to judge the Flannery O’Connor Award competitions. Gay’s writing appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018,…
Colette Sartor has been named this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, a competition that seeks to encourage writers of excellent short stories, while bringing award-winning works to a wider audience. Her collection, Once Removed and Other Stories, will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2019. Sartor…
Congratulations to Kirsten Lunstrum, this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction! The competition continues to be a celebrated route to publication for literary short fiction collections, and UGA Press is glad to have Lunstrum carry on this tradition. Kirsten Lunstrum’s What We Do with the Wreckage will be published by the…
Do you write short fiction? Do you know someone who writes short fiction? Do you know someone who writes short fiction that needs a good motivator in order to focus those creative energies? Oh, you do? Great, we’re here to help! We are now accepting submissions for the 2017 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Just visit…
