Spinning Away from the Center

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 111
• These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home--thin... Lees meer

Sorry I Worried You

Gary Fincke

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 105
• In these twelve intelligent tales, seasoned poet and story writer Gary Fincke reconciles lost hope and quiet despair with small blessings and ultimate... Lees meer

The Necessary Grace to Fall

Gina Ochsner

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 52
• These eleven stories take us from the Czech Republic to Alaska, from Siberia to West Texas, as they stake out territories straddling the border betwee... Lees meer

Hold That Knowledge

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 109
• Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have ap... Lees meer

The People I Know

Nancy Zafris

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 56
• The People I Know is a collection of nine stories, told by characters who hover at the edge of life. Whether it's Lorne, perched on a sofa as a weddin... Lees meer

Ghost Traps

Robert Abel

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 100
• Ghost Traps is a collection of twelve stories about characters who are on the edge and under duress, individuals backed against a wall as they try to ... Lees meer

Bad Kansas

Becky Mandelbaum

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 89
• The eleven beautifully crafted stories in Bad Kansas reveal the complicated underbelly of the country's most flown-over state and the quirky character... Lees meer

The Purchase of Order

Gail Adams

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 59
• In the cadence of a Texas drawl or the whisper of a midday kiss, these stories by Gail Galloway Adams capture untidy lives in which the pain of living... Lees meer

At-Risk

Amina Gautier

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 28
• In Amina Gautier's Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don't, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier's stories explore the... Lees meer

Useful Gifts

Carole L Glickfeld

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 81
• Charged with the mystery of childhood, with curiosity and daring, confusion and fear, the eleven interrelated stories in Useful Gifts explore what Rut... Lees meer

Ate It Anyway

Ed Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 27
• In the limbo bounded by rebellion and resignation, belonging and solitude, Ed Allen's middle Americans seem to be either freely adrift or uncomfortabl... Lees meer

Love, in Theory

E J Levy

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 49
• In this funny, brainy, thoroughly engaging debut collection, an award-winning writer looks at romance through the lens of scholarly theories to illumi... Lees meer

The Melancholy of Departure

Alfred DePew

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 51
• Filled with sharp dialogue, engaging characters, and offbeat detail, the twelve stories collected in The Melancholy of Departure describe an outsider'... Lees meer

Eyesores

Eric Shade

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 42
• These eleven interrelated stories follow strands of hope and nostalgia that bind together, or fence off, the people of Windfall. Eric Shade's fictiona... Lees meer

Bear Down, Bear North

Melinda Moustakis

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born i... Lees meer

Rough Translations

Molly Giles

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 61
• Molly Giles's engaging collection of stories was the winner not only of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction but also of the 1985 San Francis... Lees meer

The Slow Release

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 110
• Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the pr... Lees meer

Copy Cats

David Crouse

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 37
• Featuring seven stories and a novella, David Crouse's powerful debut collection depicts people staring down the complicated mysteries of their own ide... Lees meer

The Dance Boots

Linda Legarde Grover

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 72
• In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the ... Lees meer

The Send-Away Girl

Barbara Sutton

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 62
• Barbara Sutton's quirky debut collection tracks the emotional journeys of characters struggling to find harmonious relationships with the people they ... Lees meer

The Evening News

Tony Ardizzone

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 73
• Tony Ardizzone writes of the moments in our lives that shine, that burn in the dim expanse of memory with the intensity and vivid light of the evening... Lees meer

The Jungle Around Us

Anne Raeff

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 17
• "You'll see how beautiful it is in the morning--jungle all around us," says one of the characters in Anne Raeff's story collection, referring to the w... Lees meer

Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories

Carol Roh Spaulding

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• This collection of linked stories follows four generations of the Songs, a Korean American family, beginning in 1924 just prior to the Immigration Act... Lees meer

Low Flying Aircraft

T M McNally

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 50
• Low Flying Aircraft is a collection of interrelated stories in which one life is equally capable of influencing another "under a sky the size of histo... Lees meer