The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

David Walton, Evening Out

Leigh Allison Wilson, From the Bottom Up

Sandra Thompson, Close-Ups

Susan Neville, The Invention of Flight

Mary Hood, How Far She Went

François Camoin, Why Men Are Afraid of Women

Molly Giles, Rough Translations

Daniel Curley, Living with Snakes

Peter Meinke, The Piano Tuner

Tony Ardizzone, The Evening News

Salvatore La Puma, The Boys of Bensonhurst

Melissa Pritchard, Spirit Seizures

Philip F. Deaver, Silent Retreats

Gail Galloway Adams, The Purchase of Order

Carole L. Glickfeld, Useful Gifts

Antonya Nelson, The Expendables

Nancy Zafris, The People I Know

Debra Monroe, The Source of Trouble

Robert H. Abel, Ghost Traps

T. M. McNally, Low Flying Aircraft

Alfred DePew, The Melancholy of Departure

Dennis Hathaway, The Consequences of Desire

Rita Ciresi, Mother Rocket

Dianne Nelson, A Brief History of Male Nudes in America

Christopher Mcllroy, AH My Relations

Alyce Miller, The Nature of Longing

Carol Lee Lorenzo, Nervous Dancer

C. M. Mayo, Sky Over El Nido

Wendy Brenner, Large Animals in Everyday Life

Paul Rawlins, No Lie Like Love

Harvey Grossinger, The Quarry

Ha Jin, Under the Red Flag