Editing O. Henry Award

{{short description|Annual award for exceptional short stories}}
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The '''O. Henry Award''' is an annual American award given to [[short story|short stories]] of exceptional merit. The award is named after the [[United States|American]] short-story writer [[O. Henry]].

The '''''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories''''' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best stories published in U.S. and [[Canada|Canadian]] magazines. Along with ''[[The Best American Short Stories]]'', the O. Henry Prize Stories is one of the two "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction."<ref>"Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73.</ref>

Until 2002 there were first, second, and third prize winners and from 2003 to 2019 there were three jurors who each selected a short story of special interest or merit; the collection is called ''The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'', and the original collection was called ''Prize Stories 1919: The O. Henry Memorial Awards''.

==History and format==
The award was first presented in 1919 and funded by the [[Twilight Club|Society of Arts and Sciences]].<ref name="Bold Type: O. Henry Award FAQ">{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/ohenry/0900/faq.html|title=Penguin Random House|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|access-date=30 September 2017|archive-date=3 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203060235/http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/ohenry/0900/faq.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="20thcenturyauthor">{{cite book|last=Kunitz|first=Stanley J.|author2=Howard Haycraft |author-link2=Howard Haycraft |title=Twentieth Century Authors|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.85046|publisher=The H. W. Wilson Company|location=New York|year=1942}}</ref> 

{{asof|2021|post=,}} the guest editor chooses twenty short stories, each an O. Henry Prize story. All stories published in an American or Canadian periodical are eligible for consideration, including stories that have been translated into English. The goal of ''The O. Henry Prize Stories'' remains to strengthen the art of the short story.

The current series [[editing|editor]] for ''The O. Henry Prize Stories'' is Jenny Minton Quigley. Past series editors have been: [[Blanche Colton Williams]] (1919–32), [[Harry Hansen (author)|Harry Hansen]] (1933–40), Herschel Brickell (1941–51), [[Paul Engle]] (1954–59), Mary Stegner (1960), [[Richard Poirier]] (1961–66, assisted by William Abrahams, 1964–66), William Abrahams (1967–96), [[Larry Dark]] (1997–2002) and [[Laura Furman]] (2003–2019). There were no volumes of the series in 1952 and 1953 (due to Herschel Brickell's death), 2004 and 2020.<ref name="Bold Type: O. Henry Award FAQ"/>

==Partnership with PEN American Center==
In 2009 ''The O. Henry Prize Stories'' publisher, Anchor Books, renamed the series in partnership with the PEN American Center (today [[PEN America]]), producing the first ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' collection. Proceeds from the ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009'' would be directed to PEN's Readers & Writers Program, which sends well-known authors to under served inner-city schools. 

The selection included stories by [[Graham Joyce]], [[John Burnside (writer)|John Burnside]], [[Roger Nash]], [[Manuel Muñoz (writer)|Manuel Muñoz]], [[Ha Jin]], [[Paul Theroux]], [[Judy Troy]], [[Nadine Gordimer]], [[Marisa Silver]], [[Paul Yoon]], [[Andrew Sean Greer]], and [[Junot Díaz]], with [[A. S. Byatt]], [[Tim O'Brien (author)|Tim O'Brien]] and [[Anthony Doerr]] – all authors of past O. Henry Prize Stories – serving as the prize jury.<ref>Itzkoff, Dave. [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/o-henry-prize-pen-announce-partnership/ "O. Henry Prize, PEN Announce Partnership"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416154620/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/o-henry-prize-pen-announce-partnership/ |date=2009-04-16 }}, "[[The New York Times]] Arts Beat", 2009-04-07.</ref>

In an interview for the [[Vintage Books]] and Anchor Books blog, editor [[Laura Furman]] called the collaboration with PEN a "natural partnership".<ref>[http://vintageanchor.blogspot.com/2009/04/two-literary-lions-merge.html "Two Literary Lions Merge"], "[[Vintage Books]]", 2009-04-10.</ref>

== First-prize winners (1919–2002) ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+O. Henry Award winners<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=The O. Henry Prize Past Winners |url=https://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/past.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905135754/https://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/past.html |archive-date=2017-09-05 |access-date=30 September 2017 |website=[[Random House]]}}</ref>
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Publication
!Ref.
|-
![[1919 in literature|1919]]
|{{sortname|last=Montague|first=Margaret Prescott}}
|England to America
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}}'', September 1918
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|-
![[1920 in literature|1920]]
|{{sortname|last=Burt|first=Maxwell Struthers}}
|Each in His Generation
|''[[Scribner's Magazine]]'', July 1920
|
|-
![[1921 in literature|1921]]
|{{sortname|last=Marshall|first=Edison}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Heart of Little Shikara|nolink=1}}
|''[[Everybody's Magazine]]'', January 1921
|
|-
![[1922 in literature|1922]]
|{{sortname|last=Cobb|first=Irvin S.}}
|Snake Doctor
|''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'', November 1922
|
|-
![[1923 in literature|1923]]
|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Edgar Valentine|nolink=1}}
|Prelude
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', May 1923
|
|-
![[1924 in literature|1924]]
|{{sortname|last=Irwin|first=Inez Haynes}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Spring Flight|nolink=1}}
|''[[McCall's]]'', June 1924
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|-
![[1925 in literature|1925]]
|{{sortname|last=Street|first=Julian}}
|Mr. Bisbee's Princess
|''[[Redbook]]'', May 1925
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|-
![[1926 in literature|1926]]
|{{sortname|last=Steele|first=Wilbur Daniel}}
|Bubbles
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]''
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|-
![[1927 in literature|1927]]
|{{sortname|last=Bradford|first=Roark}}
|Child of God
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', April 1927
|
|-
![[1928 in literature|1928]]
|{{sortname|last=Duranty|first=Walter}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Parrot|nolink=1}}
|''[[Redbook]]'', March 1928
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|-
![[1929 in literature|1929]]
|{{sortname|last=Parker|first=Dorothy}}
|Big Blonde
|''Bookman Magazine'', February 1929
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[1930 in literature|1930]]
|{{sortname|last=Burnett|first=W. R.}}
|Dressing-Up
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', November 1929
|<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=1930-11-07 |title=TWO WRITERS IN TIE FOR O. HENRY AWARD; W.R. Burnett and William M. John Share $500 Prize for Best Magazine Story in 1929. |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/11/07/archives/two-writers-in-tie-for-o-henry-award-wr-burnett-and-william-m-john.html |access-date=2023-02-26 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2021-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603113155/https://www.nytimes.com/1930/11/07/archives/two-writers-in-tie-for-o-henry-award-wr-burnett-and-william-m-john.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=John|first=William M.}}
|Neither Jew nor Greek
|''{{Sortname|The|Century Magazine}}'', August 1929
|<ref name=":1" />
|-
![[1931 in literature|1931]]
|{{sortname|last=Steele|first=Wilbur Daniel}}
|Can't Cross Jordan by Myself
|''[[Pictorial Review]]''
|
|-
![[1932 in literature|1932]]
|{{sortname|last=Benét|first=Stephen Vincent}}
|{{sortname|1=An|2= End to Dreams|nolink=1}}
|''[[Pictorial Review]]'', February 1932
|
|-
![[1933 in literature|1933]]
|{{sortname|last=Rawlings|first=Marjorie Kinnan}}
|Gal Young Un
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', June-July 1932
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|-
![[1934 in literature|1934]]
|{{sortname|last=Paul|first=Louis}}
|No More Trouble for Jedwick
|''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]''
|
|-
![[1935 in literature|1935]]
|{{sortname|last=Boyle|first=Kay}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=White Horses of Vienna|nolink=1}}
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]''
|
|-
![[1936 in literature|1936]]
|{{sortname|last=Cozzens|first=James Gould}}
|Total Stranger
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Saturday Evening Post}}'', February 15, 1936
|
|-
![[1937 in literature|1937]]
|{{sortname|last=Benét|first=Stephen Vincent}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Devil and Daniel Webster}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Saturday Evening Post}}''
|
|-
![[1938 in literature|1938]]
|{{sortname|last=Maltz|first=Albert}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Happiest Man on Earth|nolink=1}}
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]''
|
|-
![[1939 in literature|1939]]
|{{sortname|last=Faulkner|first=William}}
|[[Barn Burning]]
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]''
|
|-
![[1940 in literature|1940]]
|{{sortname|last=Benét|first=Stephen Vincent}}
|Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Saturday Evening Post}}''
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|-
![[1941 in literature|1941]]
|{{sortname|last=Boyle|first=Kay}}
|Defeat
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}''
|
|-
![[1942 in literature|1942]]
|{{sortname|last=Welty|first=Eudora}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Wide Net|nolink=1}}
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]''
|
|-
![[1943 in literature|1943]]
|{{sortname|last=Welty|first=Eudora}}
|Livvie is Back
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}}''
|
|-
![[1944 in literature|1944]]
|{{sortname|last=Shaw|first=Irwin}}
|[[Walking Wounded (short story)|Walking Wounded]]
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}''
|
|-
![[1945 in literature|1945]]
|{{sortname|last=Van Tilburg Clark|first=Walter}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Wind and the Snow of Winter|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Yale Review}}''
|
|-
![[1946 in literature|1946]]
|{{sortname|last=Goss|first=John Mayo|nolink=1}}
|Bird Song
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}}''
|
|-
![[1947 in literature|1947]]
|{{sortname|last=Clayton|first=John Bell}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=White Circle|nolink=1}}
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]''
|
|-
![[1948 in literature|1948]]
|{{sortname|last=Capote|first=Truman}}
|Shut a Final Door
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}}''
|
|-
![[1949 in literature|1949]]
|{{sortname|last=Faulkner|first=William}}
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Courtship|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Sewanee Review}}''
|
|-
![[1950 in literature|1950]]
|{{sortname|last=Stegner|first=Wallace}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Blue-Winged Teal|nolink=1}}
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]''
|
|-
![[1951 in literature|1951]]
|{{sortname|last=Downey|first=Harris}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Hunters|nolink=1}}
|''Epoch''
|
|-
![[1952 in literature|1952]]
| colspan="3" |No edition
|
|-
![[1953 in literature|1953]]
| colspan="3" |No edition
|
|-
![[1954 in literature|1954]]
|{{sortname|last=Mabry|first=Thomas|nolink=1}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Indian Feather|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Sewanee Review}}''
|
|-
![[1955 in literature|1955]]
|{{sortname|last=Stafford|first=Jean}}
|In the Zoo
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}''
|
|-
![[1956 in literature|1956]]
|{{sortname|last=Cheever|first=John}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Country Husband}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}''
|
|-
![[1957 in literature|1957]]
|{{sortname|last=O'Connor|first=Flannery}}
|Greenleaf
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Kenyon Review}}''
|
|-
![[1958 in literature|1958]]
|{{sortname|last=Gellhorn|first=Martha}}
|In Sickness as in Health
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}}''
|
|-
![[1959 in literature|1959]]
|{{sortname|last=Taylor|first=Peter|link=Peter Taylor (writer)}}
|Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Kenyon Review}}''
|
|-
![[1960 in literature|1960]]
|{{sortname|last=Hall|first=Lawrence Sargent}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Ledge|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Hudson Review}}'', Winter 1958–59
|
|-
![[1961 in literature|1961]]
|{{sortname|last=Olsen|first=Tillie}}
|[[Tell Me a Riddle]]
|''[[New World Writing]]''
|
|-
![[1962 in literature|1962]]
|{{sortname|last=Porter|first=Katherine Anne}}
|Holiday
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}}'', December 1960
|
|-
![[1963 in literature|1963]]
|{{sortname|last=O'Connor|first=Flannery}}
|[[Everything That Rises Must Converge (short story)|Everything That Rises Must Converge]]
|''[[New World Writing]]''
|
|-
![[1964 in literature|1964]]
|{{sortname|last=Cheever|first=John}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Embarkment for Cythera|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', November 3, 1962
|
|-
![[1965 in literature|1965]]
|{{sortname|last=O'Connor|first=Flannery}}
|Revelation
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Sewanee Review}}'', Spring 1964
|
|-
![[1966 in literature|1966]]
|{{sortname|last=Updike|first=John}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Bulgarian Poetess|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', March 13, 1965
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Updike |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Updike |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=[[Britannica]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221100150/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Updike |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
![[1967 in literature|1967]]
|{{sortname|last=Oates|first=Joyce Carol}}
|In the Region of Ice
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}}'', August 1966
|
|-
![[1968 in literature|1968]]
|{{sortname|last=Welty|first=Eudora}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Demonstrators|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', November 26, 1966
|
|-
![[1969 in literature|1969]]
|{{sortname|last=Malamud|first=Bernard}}
|Man in the Drawer
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}}'', April 1968
|
|-
![[1970 in literature|1970]]
|{{sortname|last=Hemenway|first=Robert|nolink=1}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Girl Who Sang with the Beatles|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', January 11, 1969
|
|-
![[1971 in literature|1971]]
|{{sortname|last=Hecht|first=Florence M.|nolink=1}}
|Twin Bed Bridge
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}}'', May 1970
|
|-
![[1972 in literature|1972]]
|{{sortname|last=Batki|first=John}}
|Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', March 20, 1971
|
|-
![[1973 in literature|1973]]
|{{sortname|last=Oates|first=Joyce Carol}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Dead|nolink=1}}
|''[[McCall's]]'', July 1971
|
|-
![[1974 in literature|1974]]
|{{sortname|last=Adler|first=Renata}}
|Brownstone
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', January 27, 1973
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[1975 in literature|1975]]
|{{sortname|last=Brodkey|first=Harold}}
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Story in an Almost Classical Mode|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', September 17, 1973
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Ozick|first=Cynthia}}
|Usurpation (Other People's Stories)
|[[Esquire (magazine)|''Esquire'']], May 1974
|
|-
![[1976 in literature|1976]]
|{{sortname|last=Brodkey|first=Harold}}
|His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft
|[[Esquire (magazine)|''Esquire'']], August 1975
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[1977 in literature|1977]]
|{{sortname|last=Hazzard|first=Shirley}}
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Long Story Short|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', July 26, 1976
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Leffland|first=Ella}}
|Last Courtesies
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', July 1976
|
|-
![[1978 in literature|1978]]
|{{sortname|last=Allen|first=Woody}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Kugelmass Episode|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', May 2, 1977
|
|-
![[1979 in literature|1979]]
|{{sortname|last=Weaver|first=Gordon}}
|Getting Serious
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Sewanee Review}}'', Fall 1977
|
|-
![[1980 in literature|1980]]
|{{sortname|last=Bellow|first=Saul}}
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Silver Dish|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', September 25, 1978
|
|-
![[1981 in literature|1981]]
|{{sortname|last=Ozick|first=Cynthia}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Shawl|link=The Shawl (short story)}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', May 26, 1980
|
|-
![[1982 in literature|1982]]
|{{sortname|last=Kenney|first=Susan}}
|Facing Front
|''Epoch'', Winter 1980
|
|-
![[1983 in literature|1983]]
|{{sortname|last=Carver|first=Raymond}}
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Small, Good Thing|nolink=1}}
|''[[Ploughshares]]''
|
|-
![[1984 in literature|1984]]
|{{sortname|last=Ozick|first=Cynthia}}
|Rosa
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', March 21, 1983
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[1985 in literature|1985]]
|{{sortname|last=Dybek|first=Stuart}}
|Hot Ice
|''[[Antaeus (magazine)|Antaeus]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Smiley|first=Jane}}
|Lily
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}}''
|
|-
![[1986 in literature|1986]]
|{{sortname|last=Walker|first=Alice}}
|Kindred Spirits
|[[Esquire (magazine)|''Esquire'']], August 1985
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice Walker |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Walker |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=[[Britannica]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221100355/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Walker |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[1987 in literature|1987]]
|{{sortname|last=Erdrich|first=Louise}}
|Fleur
|[[Esquire (magazine)|''Esquire'']], August 1986
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Johnson|first=Joyce|link=Joyce Johnson (author)}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Children's Wing|nolink=1}}
|''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', July 1986
|
|-
![[1988 in literature|1988]]
|{{sortname|last=Carver|first=Raymond}}
|Errand
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', June 1, 1987
|
|-
![[1989 in literature|1989]]
|{{sortname|last=Finney|first=Ernest J.|nolink=1}}
|Peacocks
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Sewanee Review}}'', Winter 1988
|
|-
![[1990 in literature|1990]]
|{{sortname|last=Litwak|first=Leo E.}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Eleventh Edition|nolink=1}}
|''[[TriQuarterly]]'', Winter 1989
|
|-
![[1991 in literature|1991]]
|{{sortname|last=Updike|first=John}}
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Sandstone Farmhouse|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', June 11, 1990
|
|-
![[1992 in literature|1992]]
|{{sortname|last=Ozick|first=Cynthia}}
|Puttermesser Paired
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', October 8, 1990
|
|-
![[1993 in literature|1993]]
|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Thom}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Pugilist at Rest|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', December 2, 1991
|
|-
![[1994 in literature|1994]]
|{{sortname|last=Baker|first=Alison|link=Alison Baker (writer)}}
|Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}}'', January 1993
|
|-
![[1995 in literature|1995]]
|{{sortname|last=Nixon|first=Cornelia}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Women Come and Go|nolink=1}}
|''[[New England Review]]'', Spring 1994
|
|-
![[1996 in literature|1996]]
|{{sortname|last=King|first=Stephen}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Man in the Black Suit}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', October 31, 1994
|
|-
![[1997 in literature|1997]]
|{{sortname|last=Gordon|first=Mary|link=Mary Gordon (writer)}}
|City Life
|''[[Ploughshares]]''
|
|-
![[1998 in literature|1998]]
|{{sortname|last=Moore|first=Lorrie}}
|People Like That Are the Only People Here
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}'', January 27, 1997
|
|-
![[1999 in literature|1999]]
|{{sortname|last=Baida|first=Peter}}
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Nurse's Story|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Gettysburg Review}}''
|
|-
![[2000 in literature|2000]]
|{{sortname|last=Wideman|first=John Edgar}}
|Weight
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Callaloo Journal}}''
|
|-
![[2001 in literature|2001]]
|{{sortname|last=Swan|first=Mary}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Deep|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Malahat Review}}''
|
|-
![[2002 in literature|2002]]
|{{sortname|last=Brockmeier|first=Kevin}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Ceiling|link=The Ceiling (short story)}}
|''[[Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern|McSweeney's]]''
|
|}

== Juror favorites (2003–2019) ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+O. Henry Award Juror Favorites<ref name=":0" />
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Publication
!Ref.
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[2003 in literature|2003]]
|{{sortname|last=Byatt|first=A. S.}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Thing in the Forest|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}},'' June 3, 2002
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Johnson|first=Denis}}
|[[Train Dreams]]
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Paris Review}},'' Summer 2002
|
|-
![[2004 in literature|2004]]
| colspan="3" |No award
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[2005 in literature|2005]]
|{{sortname|last=Alexie|first=Sherman}}
|What You Pawn I Will Redeem
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}},'' April 21, 2003
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jhabvala|first=Ruth Prawer}}
|Refuge in London
|[[Zoetrope: All-Story]], Winter 2003
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Stuckey-French|first=Elizabeth}}
|Mudlavia
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Atlantic Monthly}},'' September 2003
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[2006 in literature|2006]]
|{{sortname|last=Eisenberg|first=Deborah}}
|Window
|''[[Tin House]],'' Spring 2004
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Edward P.}}
|Old Boys, Old Girls
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}},'' May 3, 2004
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Munro|first=Alice}}
|Passion
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}},'' March 22, 2004
|<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Alice Munro |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Munro |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=[[Britannica]] |language=en |archive-date=2021-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210404154655/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Munro |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[2007 in literature|2007]]
|{{sortname|last=Chuculate|first=Eddie}}
|Galveston Bay, 1826
|''[[Mānoa (journal)|Manoa]],'' Winter 2004
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Trevor|first=William}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Room|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}},'' May 16, 2005
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[2008 in literature|2008]]
|{{sortname|last=Munro|first=Alice}}
|What Do You Want To Know For?
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=American Scholar|dab=magazine}}''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Trevor|first=William}}
|Folie a Deux
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Zentner|first=Alexi}}
|Touch
|''[[Tin House]]''
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[2009 in literature|2009]]
|{{sortname|last=Díaz|first=Junot}}
|Wildwood
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Joyce|first=Graham}}
|{{sortname|1=An|2=Ordinary Soldier of the Queen|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Paris Review}}''
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[2010 in literature|2010]]
|{{sortname|last=Lasdun|first=James}}
|Oh, Death
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Paris Review}},'' Spring 2009
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Mueenuddin|first=Daniyal}}
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Spoiled Man|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}},'' September 15, 2008
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Trevor|first=William}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Woman of the House|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}},'' December 15, 2008
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[2011 in literature|2011]]
|{{sortname|last=Freed|first=Lynn}}
|Sunshine
|''[[Narrative Magazine]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Null|first=Matthew Neill|nolink=1}}
|Something You Can't Live Without
|''[[Oxford American]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Shepard|first=Jim}}
|Your Fate Hurtles Down at You
|''[[Electric Literature]]''
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[2012 in literature|2012]]
|{{sortname|last=Li|first=Yiyun}}
|Kindness
|''{{sortname|1=A|2=Public Space}}''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Munro|first=Alice}}
|Corrie
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}''
|<ref name=":2" />
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[2013 in literature|2013]]
|{{sortname|last=Barrett|first=Andrea}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Particles|nolink=1}}
|''[[Tin House]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Eisenberg|first=Deborah}}
|Your Duck Is My Duck
|''[[Fence (magazine)|Fence]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Link|first=Kelly}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Summer People|nolink=1}}
|''[[Tin House]]''
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[2014 in literature|2014]]
|{{sortname|last=Haddon|first=Mark}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Gun|nolink=1}}
|''[[Granta]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Iskandrian|first=Kristen|nolink=1}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Inheritors|nolink=1}}
|''[[Tin House]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=van den Berg|first=Laura }}
|Opa-locka
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Southern Review}}''
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[2015 in literature|2015]]
|{{sortname|last=McCracken|first=Elizabeth}}
|Birdsong from the Radio
|''[[Zoetrope: All-Story]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Merkner|first=Christopher|nolink=1}}
|Cabins
|''[[Subtropics (journal)|Subtropics]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Nayeri|first=Dina}}
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Ride Out of Phrao|nolink=1}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Alaska Quarterly Review}}''
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[2016 in literature|2016]]
|{{sortname|last=Genovise|first=Elizabeth|nolink=1}}
|Irises
|''{{Sortname|The|Cimarron Review}}''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Serizawa|first=Asako}}
|Train to Harbin
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Hudson Review}}''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Tuten|first=Frederic}}
|Winter, 1965
|''[[Bomb (magazine)|BOMB]]''
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[2017 in literature|2017]]
|{{sortname|last=Huneven|first=Michelle}}
|Too Good to Be True
|''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Majmudar|first=Amit}}
|Secret Lives of the Detainees
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Kenyon Review}}''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=McFarlane|first=Fiona}}
|Buttony
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}''
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[2018 in literature|2018]]
|{{sortname|last=Beard|first=Jo Ann}}
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Tomb of Wrestling|nolink=1}}
|''[[Tin House]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Celona|first=Marjorie}}
|Counterblast
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Southern Review}}''
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[2019 in literature|2019]]
|{{sortname|last=Hadley|first=Tessa}}
|Funny Little Snake
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Kondo|first=Rachel}}
|Girl of Few Seasons
|''[[Ploughshares|Ploughshares Solos]]''
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wang|first=Weike}}
|Omakase
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=New Yorker}}''
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-05-16 |title="Omakase" |url=https://lithub.com/omakase/ |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=[[Literary Hub]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127112435/https://lithub.com/omakase/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|}

== Guest editor (2021–present) ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+O. Henry Award guest editors<ref>{{Cite web |title=The O. Henry Prize Collection |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/C97/the-o-henry-prize-collection/ |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=[[Penguin Randomhouse]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219175955/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/C97/the-o-henry-prize-collection |url-status=live }}</ref>
!Year
!Editor
!Ref.
|-
![[2021 in literature|2021]]
|{{Sortname|first=Chimamanda Ngozi|last=Adichie}}
|
|-
![[2022 in literature|2022]]
|{{Sortname|first=Valeria|last=Luiselli}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-04 |title=Announcing the Winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction |url=https://lithub.com/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2022-o-henry-prize-for-short-fiction/ |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=[[Literary Hub]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222075110/https://lithub.com/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2022-o-henry-prize-for-short-fiction/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
![[2023 in literature|2023]]
|{{Sortname|first=Lauren|last=Groff}}
|
|-
![[2024 in literature|2024]]
|{{Sortname|first=Amor|last=Towles}}
|
|}

== See also ==
* ''[[The Best American Short Stories]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website|http://randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/}}
* [https://pen.org/press-clip/o-henry-prize-pen-announce-partnership/ O. Henry Prize, PEN Announce Partnership]
* [https://pen.org/2009-peno-henry-prize-stories/ 2009 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/three.html Three-time winners]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20210817060304/http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/past.html Past winners (by author, 1919–2017)] at [[Random House]] (via [[Archive.org]])
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150324004233/http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/ohenry/0999/winnerslist.html Past winners (by date, 1919–1999)] at [[Random House]]'s ''Bold Type'' (via [[Archive.org]])
* [http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/search/o-henry-prize?page=3&q=o%20henry%20prize Compilations by year]

{{O. Henry}}

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[[Category:Awards established in 1919]]
[[Category:1919 establishments in the United States]]
[[Category:O. Henry Award winners|*]]
[[Category:Short story awards]]