We are very happy to announce the O. Henry Prize Stories for 2015, which will appear in the eponymous anthology this September, from Anchor. Read selected stories, here.
Percival Everett
Finding Billy White Feather, Virginia Quarterly Review
Lydia Davis
The Seals, The Paris Review
Lionel Shriver
Kilifi Creek, The New Yorker
Manuel Muñoz
The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA, Glimmer Train
Russell Banks
A Permanent Member of the Family, Conjunctions
A Ride Out of Phrao, Alaska Quarterly Review
Emily Ruskovich
Owl, One Story
Becky Hagenston
The Upside-Down World, Subtropics
Lynn Freed
The Way Things Are Going, Harper’s
Brenda Peynado
The History of Happiness, Cimarron Review
Naira Kuzmich
The Kingsley Drive Chorus, Salamander
Emma Torzs
Word of Mouth, The Three Penny Review
My Grandmother Tells Me This Story, Ecotone
The Golden Rule, Fifth Wednesday Journal
Joan Silber
About My Aunt, Tin House
Thomas Pierce
Ba Baboon, The New Yorker
Elizabeth Strout
Snow Blind, Virginia Quarterly Review
Vauhini Vara
I, Buffalo, Tin House
Elizabeth McCracken
Birdsong From the Radio, Zoetrope: All-Story
O. Henry Prize editor Laura Furman, on the process:
“Our jurors read the twenty O. Henry Prize Stories in a blind manuscript. Each story appears in the same type and format with no attribution of the magazine that published it or the author’s name. The jurors don’t consult the series editor or one another. Although the jurors write their essays without knowledge of the authors’ names, the names are inserted into the essay later for the sake of clarity.”
With prize jury selections by Tessa Hadley, Kristen Iskandrian, and Michael Parker.
