Stories selected from winning volumes published in the past fifteen years, from Frank Soos's Unified Field Theory (1998) to Hugh Sheehy's The Invisibles (2012).
"You can trust some short-story awards series some of the time. . . . You can trust the O'Connor series almost 100 percent of the time, if you like quality short stories and admire fine work."
Winston-Salem Journal, on the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Series
"Nunn examines perceptions of musical styles as intrinsically white or black in the U.S. culture of the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. He shows how the phenomenon of racially defined folk or popular music in a segregated society was neither simple nor immune to mutual influences, and how racially defined music still persists. . . . The literary examples Nunn draws from, authors suc
Alan Cheuse, NPR, on the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Series
"A splendid outlet for committed writers of the short story."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Series
