The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners

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The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize-winning stories by a diverse and exciting array of writers, including Wendell Berry, Alice Hoffman, Dave Eggers, Ling Ma, Lori Ostlund, and Anthony Marra.Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Edward P. Jones has brought his own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Jones, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.THE WINNING STORIES&“The Stackpole Legend,&” Wendell Berry&“The Arrow,&” Gina Chung&“That Girl,&” Addie Citchens&“The Pleasure of a Working Life,&” Michael Deagler&“Blackbirds,&” Lindsey Drager&“Hearing Aids,&” Clyde Edgerton&“Sanrevelle,&” Dave Eggers&“Stump of the World,&” Madeline ffitch&“Shotgun Calypso,&” Indya Finch&“City Girl,&” Alice Hoffman&“Sickled,&” Jane Kalu&“The Spit of Him,&” Thomas Korsgaard, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken&“Winner,&” Ling Ma&“Countdown,&” Anthony Marra&“Just Another Family,&” Lori Ostlund&“Mornings at the Ministry,&” Ehsaneh Sadr&“Rosaura at Dawn,&” Daniel Saldaña París, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney&“Three Niles,&” Zak Salih&“Strange Fruit,&” Yah Yah Scholfield&“Miracle in Lagos Traffic,&” Chika Unigwe
Copyright:
2025

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
400 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593689639
Related ISBNs:
9780593689608, 9798217165766, 9798217166411
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Edward P. Jones

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