![]() Her work has appeared in the 2010 Best American Short Stories and the PEN/O. Lori Ostlund’s story collection, The Bigness of the World, won the 2008 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and was a Lambda Finalist. Submissions are open from April 1 to May 31 each year. Winners of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction include such widely read authors as Ha Jin, Antonya Nelson, Rita Ciresi, and Mary Hood. Winners are selected through an annual competition that attracts as many as three hundred manuscripts. ![]() The first prize-winning book was published in 1983 the award has since become an important proving ground for writers and a showcase for the talent and promise that have brought about a resurgence in the short story as a genre. ![]() More than seventy short-story collections have appeared in the Flannery O’Connor Award series, which was established to encourage gifted emerging writers by bringing their work to a national readership. ![]()
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