2009: An ordinary soldier of the queen / Graham Joyce
The nursery / Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
Purple bamboo park / E.V. Slate
The bell ringer / John Burnside
Uncle Musto takes a mistress / Mohan Sikka
Icebergs / Alistair Morgan
The camera and the cobra / Roger Nash
Tell him about Brother John / Manuel Mu©łoz
This is not your city / Caitlin Horrocks
The house behind a weeping cherry / Ha Jin
Twenty-two stories / Paul Theroux
The order of things / Judy Troy
A beneficiary / Nadine Gordimer
Isabel's daughter / Karen Brown
The visitor / Marisa Silver
And we will be here / Paul Yoon
Darkness / Andrew Sean Greer
Reading the PEN/O. Henry Prize stories 2009: A.S. Byatt on "An ordinary soldier of the Queen" by Graham Joyce ; Anthony Doerr on " Wildwood" by Junot D©Ưaz ; Tim O'Brien on "An ordinary soldier of the Queen" by Graham Joyce
2010: Introduction / Laura Furman, series editor
Them old cowboy songs / Annie Proulx
Clothed, female figure / Kirstin Allio
The headstrong historian / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stand by me / Wendell Berry
Sheep may safely graze / Jess Row
Birch memorial / Preeta Samarasan
The woman of the house / William Trevor
The bridge / Daniel Alarcón
A spoiled man / Daniyal Mueenuddin
Fresco, Byzantine / Natalie Bakopoulos
The end of my life in New York / Peter Cameron
An East Egg update / George Bradley
Into the gorge / Ron Rash
Microstories / John Edgar Wideman
Reading the PEN/O. Henry prize stories 2010.
2011: Your fate hurtles down at you / Jim Shepard
Diary of an interesting year / Helen Simpson
Nightblooming / Kenneth Calhoun
Restoration of the villa where Tíbor Kálmán once lived / Tamas Dobozy
How to leave Hialeah / Jennine Capó Crucet
Alamo Plaza / Brad Watson
Black square / Chris Adrian
Nothing of consequence / Jane Delury
Rules are the rules / Adam Foulds
Vanishing American / Leslie Parry
Never come back / Elizabeth Tallent
Something you can't live without / Matthew Neill Null
Reading the PEN/O. Henry prize stories 2011 : the jurors on their favorites / A.M. Holmes, Manuel Muñoz, Christine Schutt.
2012: Uncle Rock / Dagoberto Gilb
Vandercook / Alice Mattison
Nothing living lives alone / Wendell Berry
First wife / Christine Sneed
Birth in the woods / Kevin Wilson
Mickey Mouse / Karl Taro Greenfeld
Things said or done / Ann Packer
East of the West / Miroslav Penkov
Phantoms / Steven Millhauser
Hare's mask / Mark Slouka
Rothko eggs / Keith Ridgway
Woman who lived in the house / Salvatore Scibona
Reading the PEN/O. Henry prize stories 2011 : the jurors on their favorites / Mary Gaitskill, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Ron Rash
Writing the PEN/O. Henry prize stories 2011 : the writers on their work.
2013: Your duck is my duck / Deborah Eisenberg
Sugarcane / Derek Palacio
The summer people / Kelly Link
Leaving Maverley / Alice Munro
White carnations / Polly Rosenwaike
Lay my head / L. Annette Binder
The visitor / Asako Serizawa
Where do you go? / Samar Farah Fitzgerald
Aphrodisiac / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Two opinions / Joan Silber
They find the drowned / Melinda Moustakis
The Mexican / George McCormick
The history of girls / Ayşe Papatya Bucak
The particles / Andrea Barrett.
2014: The gun / Mark Haddon
You remember the pin mill / David Bradley
Nemecia / Kirstin Valdez Quade
Old houses / Allison Alsup
Fatherland / Halina Duraj
West of the known / Chanelle Benz
The women / William Trevor
Good faith / Colleen Morrissey
The right imaginary person / Robert Anthony Siegel
A golden light / Rebecca Hirsch Garcia
Fairness / Chinelo Okparanta
The inheritors / Kristen Iskandrian
Deep eddy / Michael Parker
Oh Shenandoah / Maura Stanton
Opa-locka / Laura van den Berg
2015: Finding Billy White Feather / Percival Everett
Kilifi Creek / Lionel Shriver
The happiest girl in the whole USA / Manuel Muñoz
A permanent member of the family / Russell Banks
A ride out of Phrao / Dina Nayeri
The upside-down world / Becky Hagenston
The way things are going / Lynn Freed
The history of happiness / Brenda Peynado
The Kingsley Drive Chorus / $r Naira Kuzmich
Word of mouth / Emma Törzs
Cabins / Christopher Merkner
My grandmother tells me this story / Molly Antopol
The Golden Rule / Lynne Sharon Schwartz
About my aunt / Joan Silber
Ba Baboon / Thomas Pierce
Snow blind / Elizabeth Strout
I, Buffalo / Vauhini Vara
Birdsong from the radio / Elizabeth McCracken
Reading The O. Henry Prize Stories: the jurors on their favorites
Writing The O. Henry Prize Stories: the writers on their work.
2016: Irises / Elizabeth Genovise
The Mongerji letters / Geetha Iyer
Narrator / Elizabeth Tallent
Bonus baby / Joe Donnelly
Divergence / David H. Lynn
A single composition / Shruti Swamy
Storm windows / Charles Haverty
Train to Harbin / Asako Serizawa
Dismemberment / Wendell Berry
Exit zero / Marie-Helene Bertino
Safety / Lydia Fitzpatrick
A single deliberate thing / Zebbie Watson
The crabapple tree / Robert Coover
Winter, 1965 / Frederic Tuten
They were awake / Rebecca Evanhoe
Slumming / Ottessa Moshfegh
Reading The O. Henry Prize Stories: the jurors on their favorites
Writing The O. Henry Prize Stories: the writers on their work.
2017: Introduction / Laura Furman
Too good to be true / Michelle Huneven
Something for a young woman / Genevieve Plunkett
The Buddhist / Alan Rossi
Protection / Paola Peroni
Night garden / Shruti Swamy
Floating garden / Mary LaChapelle
The trusted traveler / Joseph O'Neill
Paddle to Canada / Heather Monley
A small sacrifice for an enormous happiness / Jai Chakrabarti
The bride and the street party / Kate Cayley
Secret lives of the detainees / Amit Majmudar
Glory / Lesley Nneka Arimah
Mercedes Benz / Martha Cooley
The reason is because / Manual Muñoz
The family whistle / Gerard Woodward
Buttony / Fiona McFarlane
Reading the O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 : The jurors on their favorites. David Bradley on "Too good to be true" by Michelle Huneven ; Elizabeth McCracken on "Secret lives of the detainees" by Amit Majmudar ; Brad Watson on "Buttony" by Fiona McFarlane
Writing The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 : The writers on their work.
2018: The tomb of wrestling / Jo Ann Beard, Tin House
Counterblast / Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review
Nayla / Youmna Chlala, Prairie Schooner
Lucky Dragon / Viet Dinh, Ploughshares
Stop 'n' go / Michael Parker, New England Review
Past perfect continuous / Dounia Choukri, Chicago Quarterly Review
Inversion of Marcia / Thomas Bolt, n+1
Nights in Logar / Jamil Jan Kochai, A Public Space
How we eat / Mark Jude Poirier, Epoch
Deaf and blind / Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker
Why were they throwing bricks? / Jenny Zhang, n+1
An amount of discretion / Lauren Alwan, The Southern Review
Queen Elizabeth / Brad Felver, One Story
The stamp collector / Dave King, Fence
More or less like a man / Michael Powers, The Threepenny Review
The Earth, thy great exchequer, ready lies / Jo Lloyd, Zoetrope
Up here / Tristan Hughes, Ploughshares
The houses that are left behind / Brenda Walker, Kenyon Review
We keep them anyway / Stephanie A. Vega, The Threepenny Review
Solstice / Anne Enright, The New Yorker
Reading the O. Henry Prize Stories 2018: the jurors on their favorites
Writing the O. Henry Prize Stories: the writers on their work.