Story Prize
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The Story Prize is an annual book award established in 2004 that honors the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction with a $20,000 cash award. Each of two runners-up receives $5,000. Eligible books must be written in English and first published in the United States during a calendar year. The founder of the prize is Julie Lindsey, and the director is Larry Dark. He was previously series editor for the annual short story anthology Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards from 1997-2002.
Publishers, editors, or agents may enter a short story collection written in English by a living author and published in the U.S. during a calendar year. Three finalists are announced in January. These authors participate in an award event at the New School in New York City in late February or early March at which they read from their work and have an on-stage discussion with Dark. At the end of the event, Julie Lindsey announces the winner, who, in addition to the prize money, receives an engraved silver bowl.
2010
The winner for short story collection published in 2010 was announced at an event at The New School University in New York City on March 2, 2011. Anthony Doerr
, Memory Wall
2009
The winner for 2009 was announced at an event at The New School University in New York City on March 3, 2010. Daniyal Mueenuddin
, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
2008 Tobias Wolff
, Our Story Begins
2007 Jim Shepard
, Like You'd Understand, Anyway
2006 Mary Gordon, The Stories of Mary Gordon
2005 Patrick O'Keeffe, The Hill Road
2004 Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
Publishers, editors, or agents may enter a short story collection written in English by a living author and published in the U.S. during a calendar year. Three finalists are announced in January. These authors participate in an award event at the New School in New York City in late February or early March at which they read from their work and have an on-stage discussion with Dark. At the end of the event, Julie Lindsey announces the winner, who, in addition to the prize money, receives an engraved silver bowl.
Finalists and winners
= winner.2010
The winner for short story collection published in 2010 was announced at an event at The New School University in New York City on March 2, 2011. Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr is an American fiction writer. Raised in nearby Novelty, Ohio, he majored in history at Bowdoin College and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University....
, Memory Wall
- Yiyun LiYiyun LiYiyun Li is a Chinese American writer. Her debut short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and her second collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl was shortlisted for the same award...
, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl - Suzanne Rivecca, Death Is Not an Option
2009
The winner for 2009 was announced at an event at The New School University in New York City on March 3, 2010. Daniyal Mueenuddin
Daniyal Mueenuddin
Daniyal Mueenuddin is a Pakistani-American author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, published in the United States by W. W...
, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
- Victoria Patterson, Drift
- Wells TowerWells TowerWells Tower is an American writer of short stories and non-fiction.-Early life, education, and early career:Tower was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but grew up in North Carolina....
, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
2008 Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American author. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life , and his short stories. He has also written two novels.-Biography:Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama...
, Our Story Begins
- Jhumpa LahiriJhumpa LahiriJhumpa Lahiri is a Bengali American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies , won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake , was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna, which she says are both...
, Unaccustomed EarthUnaccustomed EarthUnaccustomed Earth is the latest book from Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. After Interpreter of Maladies, the Pulitzer Prize winning book, this is her second collection of short stories. Just like her other books, Unaccustomed Earth is also a reflection of life with two separate... - Joe MenoJoe MenoJoe Meno is a novelist, writer of short fiction, playwright, and music journalist based in Chicago.-Biography:After attending Columbia College Chicago, Meno spent time working as a flower delivery truck driver and art therapy teacher at a juvenile detention center...
, Demons in the SpringDemons in the SpringDemons in the Spring is a collection of twenty short stories by Chicago author Joe Meno. Released by Punk Planet books in 2008, with illustrations by twenty artists including Charles Burns, Archer Prewitt, Ivan Brunetti, Jay Ryan, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, Geoff McFedtridge, Kelsey...
2007 Jim Shepard
Jim Shepard
Jim Shepard is an American author and professor of creative writing and film at Williams College.-Biography:Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a B.A. at Trinity College in 1978, his MFA from Brown University in 1980. He currently teaches creative writing and film at Williams...
, Like You'd Understand, Anyway
- Tessa Hadley, Sunstroke and Other Stories
- Vincent LamVincent LamVincent Lam is a Canadian writer and medical doctor.Born in London, Ontario and raised in Ottawa, his parents came to Canada from the Chinese expatriate community in Vietnam. He attended St. Pius X High School and did his medical training at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1999...
, Bloodletting & Miraculous CuresBloodletting & Miraculous CuresBloodletting & Miraculous Cures is a short story collection by Vincent Lam, published in 2006. The book, inspired by Lam's own experiences in medical school and as a professional physician, is a volume of interconnected short stories about the lives and relationships of Fitzgerald, Ming, Chen and...
2006 Mary Gordon, The Stories of Mary Gordon
- Rick BassRick BassRick Bass is an American writer and an environmental activist.-Life:Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S., the son of a geologist, and he studied petroleum geology at Utah State University. He grew up in Houston, and started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a petroleum...
, The Lives of Rocks - George SaundersGeorge SaundersGeorge Saunders is a New York Times bestselling American writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children's books. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and GQ, among other publications...
, In Persuasion NationIn Persuasion NationIn Persuasion Nation is short story writer George Saunders’s third full length short story collection; it is 240 pages long. The collection has many stories that appeared in different forms in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and McSweeney's...
2005 Patrick O'Keeffe, The Hill Road
- Jim HarrisonJim HarrisonJames "Jim" Harrison is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and writings about food. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway...
, The Summer He Didn't Die - Maureen F. McHughMaureen F. McHughMaureen F. McHugh is a science fiction and fantasy writer.Her first published story appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang , was nominated for both the Hugo and the...
, Mothers and other Monsters
2004 Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
The Dew Breaker
The Dew Breaker is a novel by Edwidge Danticat, published in 2004. The title "comes from a Creole phrase which refers to those who break the serenity of the grass in the morning dew...
- Cathy Day, The Circus in Winter
- Joan SilberJoan SilberJoan Silber is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of Household Words , which won a PEN/Hemingway Award, and Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories , which was a finalist for both the 2004 National Book Award and the Story Prize...
, Ideas of Heaven