• Announcing the 2018 O. Henry Prize Stories

    Read Four of the Winning Stories

    We are very happy to announce the O. Henry Prize Stories for 2018, edited by Laura Furman, which will appear in an eponymous anthology this September, from Anchor.

     

    Lauren Alwan
    “An Amount of Discretion,” The Southern Review

    Jo Ann Beard
    “The Tomb of Wrestling,” Tin House

    Thomas Bolt
    “Inversion of Marcia,” n+1

    Marjorie Celona
    “Counterblast,” The Southern Review

    Youmna Chlala
    “Nayla,” Prairie Schooner

    Dounia Choukri
    “Past Perfect Continuous,” Chicago Quarterly Review

    Viet Dinh
    “Lucky Dragon,” Ploughshares

    Anne Enright
    ‘Solstice,” The New Yorker

    Brad Felver
    “Queen Elizabeth,” One Story

    Tristan Hughes
    “Up Here,” Ploughshares

    Dave King
    “The Stamp Collector,” Fence

    Jamil Kochai
    “Nights in Logar,” A Public Space

    Jo Lloyd
    “The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies,” Zoetrope

    Michael Parker
    “Stop ‘n’ Go,” New England Review

    Mark Jude Poirier
    “How We Eat,” Epoch

    Michael Powers
    “More or Less Like a Man,” The Threepenny Review

    Lara Vapnyar
    “Deaf and Blind,” The New Yorker

    Stephanie A. Vega
    “We Keep Them Anyway,” The Threepenny Review

    Brenda Walker
    “The Houses that Are Left Behind,” Kenyon Review

    Jenny Zhang
    “Why Were They Throwing Bricks?,” n+1









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