NEW YORK, May 8 ― Stories by this year’s O. Henry Prize short fiction award-winners are to be made available in a paperback collection due September 9.

The American award is designed to highlight the best short stories of the past year, written in English and published in American and Canadian print magazines, as submitted by those publications’ editors.

The New Yorker has published 206 O. Henry Prize short stories between 1935 and 2013, with Harper’s Magazine supplying 126 between the Prize’s 1919 founding up to 2012, while The Atlantic Monthly provided 120 between 1919 and 2010.

In 2014, three stories from the pages of The New Yorker and three from Tin House appear on the O. Henry Prize’s list of 20 winners, with two apiece from The American Reader and Narrativemagazine.com.

This year’s crop includes “Nero” by Louise Erdrich. Erdrich had won an O. Henry Award in 1987 and, more recently, the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012 for “The Round House.”

The 2014 O. Henry Prize Stories, as chosen by editor Laura Furman
“A Golden Light” by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia (The Threepenny Review)
“Deep Eddy” by Michael Parker (Southwest Review)
“Fairness” by Chinelo Okparanta (Subtropics)
“Fatherland” by Halina Duraj (Harvard Review)
“Good Faith” by Colleen Morrissey (The Cincinnati Review)
“Nemecia” by Kirstin Valdez Quade (Narrativemagazine.com)
“Nero” by Louise Erdrich (The New Yorker)
“Oh Shenandoah” by Maura Stanton (New England Review)
“Old Houses” by Allison Alsup (New Orleans Review)
“Opa-Locka” by Laura van den Berg (The Southern Review)
“Pétur” by Olivia Clare (Ecotone)
“Talk” by Stephen Dixon (The American Reader)
“The Gun” by Mark Haddon (Granta)
“The Inheritors” by Kristen Iskandrian (Tin House)
“The Right Imaginary Person” by Robert Anthony Siegel (Tin House)
“The Women” by William Trevor (The New Yorker)
“Trust” by Dylan Landis (Tin House)
“Valentine” by Tessa Hadley (The New Yorker)
“West of the Known” by Chanelle Benz (The American Reader)
“You Remember the Pin Mill” by David Bradley (Narrativemagazine.com) ― AFP-Relaxnews