The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories evoke lives both near and distant: a Californian teenager in rehab, a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka, young female factory workers in Bangladesh, a retired couple in Nova Scotia. Anchored by situations as varied and fraught as a car crash in the Italian mountains, a domestic deception unmasked in postwar Germany, and an eerie backyard confrontation between a dog and a cobra, the stories here are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.

CONTENTS
Michelle Huneven, "Too Good To Be True" 
Genevieve Plunkett, "Something for a Young Woman" 
Alan Rossi, "The Buddhist" 
Tahmima Anam, "Garments" 
Paola Peroni, "Protection" 
Shruti Swamy, "Night Garden" 
Kevin Barry, "A Cruelty" 
Mary La Chapelle, "Floating Garden" 
Joseph O'Neill, "The Trusted Traveler" 
Keith Eisner, "Blue Dot" 
Wil Weitzel, "Lion" 
Heather Monley, "Paddle to Canada" 
Jai Chakrabarti, "A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness" 
Kate Cayley, "The Bride and the Street Party" 
Amit Majmudar, "Secret Lives of the Detainees" 
Lesley Nneka Arimah, "Glory"
Martha Cooley, "Mercedes Benz" 
Manuel Muñoz, "The Reason Is Because"
Gerard Woodward, "The Family Whistle" 
Fiona McFarlane, "Buttony"
The Jurors on Their Favorites: David Bradley, Elizabeth McCracken, Brad Watson 
The Writers on Their Work
Publications Submitted

For author interviews, photos, and more, go to www.ohenryprizestories.com

Series editor LAURA FURMAN's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and other magazines. She is the founding editor of the highly regarded American Short Fiction (three-time finalist for the American Magazine Award). A former professor at the University of Texas, she lives in Austin. 

JUROR BIOS:
DAVID BRADLEY teaches at the University of Oregon and is the author of The Chaneysville Incident, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and a finalist for the National Book Award.

ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN, is the author of Thunderstruck and National Book Award finalist The Giant's House. She teaches at the University of Texas, Austin, and has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation.

BRAD WATSON teaches at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His novel The Heaven of Mercury was a finalist for the National Book Award, and his Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.