The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.
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, The Kenyon Review
We Keep Them Anyway, Stephanie A. Vega, The Threepenny Review
Solstice, Anne Enright, The New Yorker
Prize Jury for 2018: Fiona McFarlane, Ottessa Moshfegh, Elizabeth Tallent