2018 | - Fiona McFarlane
- Ottessa Moshfegh
- Elizabeth Tallent
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2017 | - Michelle Huneven: "Too Good to Be True" in Harper's
- Amit Majmudar: "Secret Lives of the Detainees" in The Kenyon Review
- Fiona McFarlane: "Buttony" in The New Yorker
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2016 | - Asako Serizawa: "Train to Harbin" in The Hudson Review
- Frederic Tuten: "Winter, 1965" in BOMB
- Elizabeth Genovise: "Irises" in Cimarron Review
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2015 | - Dina Nayeri: "A Ride Out of Phrao" in The Alaska Quarterly Review
- Elizabeth McCracken: "Birdsong from the Radio" in Zoetrope: All-Story
- Christopher Merkner: "Cabins" in Subtropics
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2014 | - Mark Haddon: "The Gun" in Granta
- Kristen Iskandrian: "The Inheritors" in Tin House
- Laura van den Berg: "Opa-locka" in The Southern Review
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2013 | - Deborah Eisenberg: "Your Duck Is My Duck" in Fence
- Kelly Link: "The Summer People" in Tin House
- Andrea Barrett: "The Particles" in Tin House
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2012 | - Yiyun Li: "Kindness" in A Public Space
- Alice Munro: "Corrie" in The New Yorker
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2011 | - Lynn Freed: "Sunshine"
- Matthew Neill Null: "Something You Can't Live Without"
- Jim Shepard: "Your Fate Hurtles Down at You"
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2010 | - Daniyal Mueenuddin: "A Spoiled Man" in The New Yorker September 15, 2008
- James Lasdun: "Oh, Death" in The Paris Review as "The Hollow", Spring 2009 #188
- William Trevor: "The Woman of the House" in The New Yorker, December 15, 2008
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2009 | - Graham Joyce: "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen" in The Paris Review
- Junot Díaz: "Wildwood" in The New Yorker
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2008 | - Alexi Zentner: "Touch" in Tin House
- Alice Munro: "What Do You Want To Know For?" in The American Scholar
- William Trevor: "Folie a Deux" in The New Yorker
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2007 | - Eddie Chuculate: "Galveston Bay, 1826" in Manoa, Vol 16., No. 2, Winter 2004
- William Trevor: "The Room" in The New Yorker, May 16, 2005
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2006 | - Edward P. Jones: "Old Boys, Old Girls" in The New Yorker, May 3, 2004
- Deborah Eisenberg: "Window" in Tin House, Issue 19, Spring 2004
- Alice Munro: "Passion" in The New Yorker, March 22, 2004
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2005 | - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: "Refuge in London" in Zoetrope, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 2003
- Sherman Alexie: "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" in The New Yorker, April 21, 2003
- Elizabeth Stuckey-French: "Mudlavia" in The Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 2003
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2003 | - Denis Johnson: "Train Dreams" in The Paris Review, Summer 2002
- A. S. Byatt: "The Thing in The Forest" in The New Yorker, June 3, 2002
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2002 | - Kevin Brockmeier: "The Ceiling” in McSweeney's, No. 7
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2001 | - Mary Swan: "The Deep” in The Malahat Review, No. 131
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2000 | - John Edgar Wideman: "Weight” in The Callaloo Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3
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1999 | - Peter Baida: "A Nurse's Story” in The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 13, No. 3
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1998 | - Lorrie Moore: "People Like That Are the Only People Here” in The New Yorker, January 27, 1997
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1997 | - Mary Gordon: "City Life” in Ploughshares, Vol. 22, No. 1
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1996 | - Stephen King: "The Man in the Black Suit” in The New Yorker, October 31, 1994
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1995 | - Cornelia Nixon: "The Women Come and Go” in New England Review, Spring 1994
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1994 | |
1993 | - Thom Jones: "The Pugilist at Rest” in The New Yorker, December 2, 1991
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1992 | - Cynthia Ozick: "Puttermesser Paired” in The New Yorker, October 8, 1990
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1991 | - John Updike: "A Sandstone Farmhouse” in The New Yorker, June 11, 1990
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1990 | - Leo E. Litwak: "The Eleventh Edition” in TriQuarterly, No. 74, Winter 1989
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1989 | - Ernest J. Finney: "Peacocks” in The Sewanee Review, Winter 1988
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1985 | - Stuart Dybek: "Hot Ice” in Antaeus
- Jane Smiley: "Lily” in The Atlantic Monthly
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1984 | - Cynthia Ozick: "Rosa” in The New Yorker, March 21, 1983
- Gordon Lish: "For Jeromé—with Love and Kisses" in "The Antioch Review", Summer 1983, 1984
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1983 | - Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing” in Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 & 3
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1982 | - Susan Kenney: "Facing Front” in Epoch, Winter 1980
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1981 | - Cynthia Ozick: "The Shawl” in The New Yorker, May 26, 1980
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1980 | - Saul Bellow: "A Silver Dish” in The New Yorker, September 25, 1978
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1979 | - Gordon Weaver: "Getting Serious” in The Sewanee Review, Fall 1977
- Anne Leaton: "The Passion of Marco Z" in Transatlantic Review, 55/56
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1978 | - Woody Allen: "The Kugelmass Episode” in The New Yorker, May 2, 1977
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1977 | - Shirley Hazzard: "A Long Story Short” in The New Yorker, July 26, 1976
- Ella Leffland: "Last Courtesies” in Harper's Magazine, July 1976
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1976 | - Harold Brodkey: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft” in Esquire, August 1975
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1975 | - Harold Brodkey: "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode” in The New Yorker, September 17, 1973
- Cynthia Ozick: "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)” in Esquire, May 1974
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1974 | - Renata Adler: "Brownstone” in The New Yorker, January 27, 1973
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1972 | - John Batki: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie” in The New Yorker, March 20, 1971
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1971 | - Florence M. Hecht: "Twin Bed Bridge” in The Atlantic Monthly, May 1970
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1970 | - Robert Welton Hemenway: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles” in The New Yorker, January 11, 1969
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1969 | |
1968 | - Eudora Welty: "The Demonstrators” in The New Yorker, November 26, 1966
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1967 | |
1966 | - John Updike: "The Bulgarian Poetess” in The New Yorker, March 13, 1965
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1965 | |
1964 | - John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cythera” in The New Yorker, November 3, 1962
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1963 | - Terry Southern: "The Road Out of Axotle" in "Esquire", August, 1962
- Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge” in New World Writing
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1962 | |
1961 | - Tillie Olsen: "Tell Me a Riddle” in New World Writing, No. 16
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1960 | - Lawrence Sargent Hall: "The Ledge” in The Hudson Review, Winter, 1958–59
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1959 | - Peter Taylor: "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” in The Kenyon Review
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1958 | |
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1956 | |
1955 | - Jean Stafford: "In the Zoo” in The New Yorker
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1954 | - Thomas Mabry: "The Indian Feather” in The Sewanee Review
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1951 | - Harris Downey: "The Hunters” in Epoch
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1948 | |
1947 | - John Bell Clayton: "The White Circle” in Harper's Magazine
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1946 | - John Mayo Goss: "Bird Song” in The Atlantic Monthly
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1945 | - Walter Van Tilburg Clark: "The Wind and the Snow of Winter” in The Yale Review
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1944 | |
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1942 | |
1941 | - Kay Boyle: "Defeat” in The New Yorker
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1940 | |
1939 | |
1938 | - Albert Maltz: "The Happiest Man on Earth” in Harper's Magazine
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1937 | |
1936 | - James Gould Cozzens: "Total Stranger” in The Saturday Evening Post, February 15, 1936
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1935 | - Kay Boyle: "The White Horses of Vienna” in Harper's Magazine
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1934 | - Louis Paul: "No More Trouble for Jedwick” in Esquire
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1933 | - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Gal Young Un” in Harper's Magazine, June & July 1932
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1932 | |
1931 | - Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself” in Pictorial Review
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1928 | - Walter Duranty: "The Parrot” in Redbook, March 1928
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1927 | - Roark Bradford: "Child of God” in Harper's Magazine, April 1927
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1926 | - Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Bubbles” in Harper's Magazine
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1925 | - Julian Street: "Mr. Bisbee's Princess” in Redbook, May 1925
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1924 | - Inez Haynes Irwin: "The Spring Flight” in McCall's, June 1924
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1923 | - Edgar Valentine Smith: "Prelude” in Harper's Magazine, May 1923
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1922 | - Irvin S. Cobb: "Snake Doctor” in Cosmopolitan, November 1922
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1921 | - Edison Marshall: "The Heart of Little Shikara” in Everybody's Magazine, January 1921
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1920 | - Maxwell Struthers Burt: "Each in His Generation” in Scribner's Magazine, July 1920
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1919 | - Margaret Prescott Montague: "England to America” in The Atlantic Monthly, September 1918
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