| 2012 |
- Yiyun Li: "Kindness" (A Public Space)
- Alice Munro: "Corrie" (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" (The New Yorker)
- James Lasdun: "Oh, Death" (The Paris Review)
- William Trevor: "The Woman of the House" (The New Yorker)
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| 2009 |
- Graham Joyce: "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen" (The Paris Review)
- Junot Díaz: "Wildwood" (The New Yorker)
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| 2008 |
- Alexi Zentner: "Touch" (Tin House)
- Alice Munro: "What Do You Want To Know For?" (The American Scholar)
- William Trevor: "Folie a Deux" (The New Yorker)
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| 2007 |
- Eddie Chuculate: "Galveston Bay, 1826" (Manoa)
- William Trevor: "The Room" (The New Yorker)
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| 2006 |
- Edward P. Jones: "Old Boys, Old Girls" (The New Yorker)
- Deborah Eisenberg: "Window" (Tin House)
- Alice Munro: "Passion" (The New Yorker)
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| 2005 |
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| 2004 |
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| 2003 |
- Denis Johnson: "Train Dreams" in (The Paris Review)
- A. S. Byatt: "The Thing in The Forest" (The New Yorker)
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| 2002 |
- Kevin Brockmeier: "The Ceiling" (McSweeney's)
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| 2001 |
- Mary Swan: "The Deep" (The Malahat Review)
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| 2000 |
- John Edgar Wideman: "Weight" (The Callaloo Journal)
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| 1999 |
- Peter Baida: "A Nurse's Story" (The Gettysburg Review)
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| 1998 |
- Lorrie Moore: "People Like That Are the Only People Here" (The New Yorker)
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| 1997 |
- Mary Gordon: "City Life" (Ploughshares)
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| 1996 |
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| 1995 |
- Cornelia Nixon: "The Women Come and Go" (New England Review)
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| 1994 |
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| 1993 |
- Thom Jones: "The Pugilist at Rest" (The New Yorker)
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| 1992 |
- Cynthia Ozick: "Puttermesser Paired" (The New Yorker)
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| 1991 |
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| 1990 |
- Leo E. Litwak: "The Eleventh Edition" (TriQuarterly)
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| 1989 |
- Ernest J. Finney: "Peacocks" (The Sewanee Review)
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| 1988 |
- Raymond Carver: "Errand" (The New Yorker)
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| 1987 |
- Louise Erdrich: "Fleur" (Esquire)
- Joyce Johnson: "The Children's Wing" Harper's Magazine
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| 1986 |
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| 1985 |
- Stuart Dybek: "Hot Ice" (Antaeus)
- Jane Smiley: "Lily" (The Atlantic Monthly)
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| 1984 |
- Cynthia Ozick: "Rosa" (The New Yorker)
- Gordon Lish: "For Jeromé—with Love and Kisses" ("The Antioch Review")
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| 1983 |
- Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing" (Ploughshares)
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| 1982 |
- Susan Kenney: "Facing Front" (Epoch)
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| 1981 |
- Cynthia Ozick: "The Shawl" (The New Yorker)
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| 1980 |
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| 1979 |
- Gordon Weaver: "Getting Serious" (The Sewanee Review)
- Anne Leaton: "The Passion of Marco Z" (Transatlantic Review)
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| 1978 |
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| 1977 |
- Shirley Hazzard: "A Long Story Short" (The New Yorker)
- Ella Leffland: "Last Courtesies" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1976 |
- Harold Brodkey: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft" (Esquire)
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| 1975 |
- Harold Brodkey: "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode" (The New Yorker)
- Cynthia Ozick: "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)” (Esquire)
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| 1974 |
- Renata Adler: "Brownstone” (The New Yorker)
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| 1973 |
- Joyce Carol Oates: "The Dead" (McCall's)
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| 1972 |
- John Batki: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie" (The New Yorker)
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| 1971 |
- Florence M. Hecht: "Twin Bed Bridge" (The Atlantic Monthly)
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| 1970 |
- Robert Welton Hemenway: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles" (The New Yorker)
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| 1969 |
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| 1968 |
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| 1967 |
- Joyce Carol Oates: "In the Region of Ice" (The Atlantic Monthly)
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| 1966 |
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| 1965 |
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| 1964 |
- John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cytherain" (The New Yorker)
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| 1963 |
- Terry Southern: "The Road Out of Axotle" (Esquire)
- Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (New World Writing)
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| 1962 |
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| 1961 |
- Tillie Olsen: "Tell Me a Riddle" (New World Writing)
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| 1960 |
- Lawrence Sargent Hall: "The Ledge" (The Hudson Review)
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| 1959 |
- Peter Taylor: "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time" (The Kenyon Review)
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| 1958 |
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| 1957 |
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| 1956 |
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| 1955 |
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| 1954 |
- Thomas Mabry: "The Indian Feather" (The Sewanee Review)
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| 1951 |
- Harris Downey: "The Hunters" (Epoch)
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| 1950 |
- Wallace Stegner: "The Blue-Winged Teal" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1949 |
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| 1948 |
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| 1947 |
- John Bell Clayton: "The White Circle" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1946 |
- John Mayo Goss: "Bird Song" (The Atlantic Monthly)
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| 1945 |
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark: "The Wind and the Snow of Winter" (The Yale Review)
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| 1944 |
- Irwin Shaw: "Walking Wounded" (The New Yorker)
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| 1943 |
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| 1942 |
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| 1941 |
- Kay Boyle: "Defeat" (The New Yorker)
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| 1940 |
- Stephen Vincent Benét: "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing" (The Saturday Evening Post)
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| 1939 |
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| 1938 |
- Albert Maltz: "The Happiest Man on Earth" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1937 |
- Stephen Vincent Benét: "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (The Saturday Evening Post)
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| 1936 |
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| 1935 |
- Kay Boyle: "The White Horses of Vienna" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1934 |
- Louis Paul: "No More Trouble for Jedwick" (Esquire)
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| 1933 |
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Gal Young Un" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1932 |
- Stephen Vincent Benét: "An End to Dreams" (Pictorial Review)
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| 1931 |
- Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself" (Pictorial Review)
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| 1930 |
- W. R. Burnett: "Dressing-Up" (Harper's Magazine)
- William H. John: "Neither Jew nor Greek" (Century Magazine)
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| 1929 |
- Dorothy Parker: "Big Blonde" (Bookman Magazine)
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| 1928 |
- Walter Duranty: "The Parrot" (Redbook)
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| 1927 |
- Roark Bradford: "Child of God" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1926 |
- Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Bubbles" (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" (McCall's)
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| 1923 |
- Edgar Valentine Smith: "Prelude" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1922 |
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| 1921 |
- Edison Marshall: "The Heart of Little Shikara” (Everybody's Magazine)
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| 1920 |
- Maxwell Struthers Burt: "Each in His Generation (Scribner's Magazine)
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| 1919 |
- Margaret Prescott Montague: "England to America" (The Atlantic Monthly)
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