Carol Roh Spaulding Wins the Flannery O’Connor Award For Short Fiction
Carol Roh Spaulding has been chosen as this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Toni Ann Johnson Wins the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
Toni Ann Johnson has been named this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her short story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2022. Established in 1983, the Flannery O’Connor Award seeks to encourage talented writers of short stories…
Kate McIntyre Wins the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
Kate McIntyre has been named this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and her collection of short stories Mad Prairie will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2021. The competition seeks to encourage writers of excellent short stories, while bringing award-winning work to a wider…
Deadline for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction is This Week
Writers of short fiction, the window is closing to submit manuscripts for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. The submission deadline is May 31. The winner will be announced by late summer. Acclaimed writer, editor, professor and commentator Roxane Gay is the current judge. Gay’s writing appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, Best American Mystery…
Patrick Earl Ryan Wins the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
“With this outstanding collection, Patrick Earl Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and how.”—Roxane Gay, Flannery O’Connor series editor
Summer Sale Spotlight: Creative Writing from UGA Press
Catch up on your reading with the UGA Press Summer Sale and get 40% off all books during the month of June! Today we’re highlighting creative writing: short fiction, poetry, essays, and memoir. Take a look at some of our best creative writing titles below, and use code 08JUNE40 at checkout to get 40% off.…
Roxane Gay Is the New Judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
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,…
UGA Press Announces a New Short-Fiction Anthology Collection
The University of Georgia Press announces a new collection of thematic short-fiction anthologies that draw on the rich backlist of its Flannery O’Connor Award series. The collection is titled Stories from the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. In spring 2019, the Press will begin regular publication of anthologies with contents drawn from the many…
Author Spotlight: Q&A with Kirsten Lunstrum, Author of What We Do with the Wreckage
Kirsten Lunstrum, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, sits down with us today to explore themes, style, and inspiration for her newest book What We Do with the Wreckage (available October 15, 2018). Kirsten’s characters reveal survivors’ instincts when placed in situations of intimate crisis. Their choices echo throughout each story as snapshots into…
Congratulations to Colette Sartor, Winner of the 2018 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction!
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…
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