“Japa & Other Stories by Iheoma Nwachukwu is everything that I hope to come upon as the series editor of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction: a voice that is at once fresh and fully formed, characters and premises that delight and surprise and edify.”
“Every page not only delights and instructs but also provokes and moves us, lingering like a remembered dream. . . . Waiting will quietly pull you in and knock you out.”
Carol Roh Spaulding has been chosen as this year’s winner of 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 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…
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…
“With this outstanding collection, Patrick Earl Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and how.”—Roxane Gay, Flannery O’Connor series editor
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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,…
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…
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