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1 Winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award by year  





2 Winners of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award by year  





3 Guest judges by year  





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The Iowa Short Fiction Award is an annual award given for a first collection of short fiction. It has been described as "a respected prize" by the Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times considered it "among the most prestigious literary prizes America offers."[1][2]

The award was founded by the University of Iowa Press in 1969, and has been continuously presented to a writer of short stories each year since. In 1988, a companion award called the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, named for the original director of the University of Iowa Press, was instituted. Both the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the John Simmons Short Fiction Award are juried through the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and winning books are published by the University of Iowa Press.

Select stories from winning entries are included in The Iowa Award: The Best Stories from Twenty Years and The Iowa Award: The Best Stories, 1991-2000, with selections by American author Frank Conroy.

Winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award by year[edit]

Winners of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award by year[edit]

Guest judges by year[edit]

  • 2021: Brandon Taylor
  • 2020: Tom Drury
  • 2019: Carmen Maria Machado
  • 2018: Rebecca Lee
  • 2017: Andre Dubus III
  • 2016: Bennett Sims
  • 2015: Karen Russell
  • 2014: Wells Tower
  • 2013: Julie Orringer
  • 2012: Jim Shepard
  • 2011: Yiyun Li
  • 2000: Elizabeth McCracken
  • 1999: Marilynne Robinson
  • 1998: Stuart Dybek
  • 1997: Ann Beattie
  • 1996: Oscar Hijeulos
  • 1995: Ethan Canin
  • 1994: Joy Williams
  • 1993: Francine Prose
  • 1992: James Salter
  • 1991: Marilynne Robinson
  • 1990: Jayne Anne Phillips
  • 1989: Gail Godwin
  • 1988: Robert Stone
  • 1987: Alison Lurie
  • 1986: Tobias Wolff
  • 1985: Tim O'Brien
  • 1984: Frederick Busch
  • 1983: Alice Adams
  • 1982: Raymond Carver
  • 1981: Doris Grumbach
  • 1980: Francine du Plessix Gray
  • 1979: John Gardner
  • 1978: Stanley Elkin
  • 1977: Leonard Michaels
  • 1976: Donald Bathelme
  • 1975: George P. Garrett
  • 1974: William H. Gass
  • 1973: John Hawkes
  • 1972: Joyce Carol Oates
  • 1971: George P. Elliott
  • 1970: Vance Bourjaily and Kurt Vonnegut
  • References[edit]

    1. ^ "The Iowa Award: The Best Stories". Scholar Works. 2002. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  • ^ Bannon, Barbara (April 19, 1987). "In Short: Fiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  • ^ Peynado, Brenda (November 30, 2021). "Stories Anchored in Place, from Japan to the U.S.-Mexican Border". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  • ^ Zinnes, Harriet (April 26, 1987). "In Short: Fiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  • ^ Ward, Sophie (December 15, 2021). "In Fragments, Debut Stories Render Early Adulthood's Quiet Challenges". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  • ^ Ricciardelli, Michael (April 8, 2021). "Creative Writing Professor Wins Iowa Short Fiction Award". Seton Hall University. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  • External links[edit]


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