We are very happy to announce the O. Henry Prize Stories for 2016, edited by Laura Furman, which will appear in an eponymous anthology this September, from Anchor. Read selected stories here:

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“Irises” by Elizabeth GenoviseCimarron Review

“The Mongerji Letters” by Geetha IyerOrion

“Narrator” by Elizabeth Tallent, The Threepenny Review

“Bonus Baby” by Joe DonnellyZYZZYVA

“Divergence” by David H. LynnGlimmer Train

“A Simple Composition” by Shruti SwamyAgni

“Storm Windows” by Charles Haverty, One Story

“Train to Harbin” by Asako SerizawaThe Hudson Review

“Dismemberment” by Wendell Berry, The Threepenny Review

“Exit Zero” by Marie-Helene Bertino, Epoch

“Cigarettes” by Sam Savage, The Paris Review

“Temples” by Adrienne Celt, Epoch

“Safety” by Lydia Fitzpatrick, One Story

“Bounty” by Diane Cook, Harper’s

“A Single Deliberate Thing” by Zebbie Watson, The Threepenny Review

“The Crabapple Tree” by Robert Coover, The New Yorker

“Winter, 1965” by Frederic Tuten, BOMB

“They Were Awake” by Rebecca Evanhoe, Harper’s

“Slumming” by Ottessa Moshfegh, The Paris Review

“Happiness” by Ron Carlson, Ecotone

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