Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology
gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous
year. An Anchor Books Original.
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019--continuing a century-long tradition
of cutting-edge literary excellence--contains twenty prize-winning
stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the
previous year. The winning writers are an impressive mix of celebrated
names and new, emerging voices. Their stories evoke lives both near and
distant, in settings ranging from Jamaica, Houston, and Hawaii to a
Turkish coal mine and a drought-ridden Northwestern farm, and feature an
engaging array of characters, including Laotian refugees, a Colombian
kidnap victim, an eccentric Irish schoolteacher, a woman haunted by a
house that cleans itself, and a strangely long-lived rabbit. The
uniformly breathtaking stories are accompanied by essays from the
eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers
on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.
List of 2019 winners:
Tessa Hadley
John Keeble
Moira McCavana
Rachel Kondo
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Stephanie Reents
Alexia Arthurs
Valerie O'Riordan
Patricia Engel
Kenan Orhan
Sarah Hall
Bryan Washington
Isabella Hammad
Weike Wang
Caoilinn Hughes
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Liza Ward
Doua Thao
Alexander MacLeod
John Edgar Wideman
Prize Jurors 2019: Lynn Freed, Elizabeth Strout, Lara Vapynar
