| 2012 | - Yiyun Li: "Kindness" (A Public Space)
- Alice Munro: "Corrie" (The New Yorker)
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| 2011 | - Lynn Freed: "Sunshine"
- Matthew Neill Null: "Something You Can't Live Without"
- Jim Shepard: "Your Fate Hurtles Down at You"
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| 2010 | - Daniyal Mueenuddin: "A Spoiled Man" (The New Yorker)
- James Lasdun: "Oh, Death" (The Paris Review)
- William Trevor: "The Woman of the House" (The New Yorker)
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| 2009 | - Graham Joyce: "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen" (The Paris Review)
- Junot Díaz: "Wildwood" (The New Yorker)
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| 2008 | - Alexi Zentner: "Touch" (Tin House)
- Alice Munro: "What Do You Want To Know For?" (The American Scholar)
- William Trevor: "Folie a Deux" (The New Yorker)
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| 2007 | - Eddie Chuculate: "Galveston Bay, 1826" (Manoa)
- William Trevor: "The Room" (The New Yorker)
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| 2006 | - Edward P. Jones: "Old Boys, Old Girls" (The New Yorker)
- Deborah Eisenberg: "Window" (Tin House)
- Alice Munro: "Passion" (The New Yorker)
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| 2005 | - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: "Refuge in London" (Zoetrope)
- Sherman Alexie: "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" (The New Yorker)
- Elizabeth Stuckey-French: "Mudlavia" in (The Atlantic Monthly)
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| 2004 | |
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| 2002 | - Kevin Brockmeier: "The Ceiling" (McSweeney's)
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| 2001 | - Mary Swan: "The Deep" (The Malahat Review)
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| 2000 | - John Edgar Wideman: "Weight" (The Callaloo Journal)
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| 1999 | - Peter Baida: "A Nurse's Story" (The Gettysburg Review)
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| 1998 | - Lorrie Moore: "People Like That Are the Only People Here" (The New Yorker)
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| 1997 | - Mary Gordon: "City Life" (Ploughshares)
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| 1996 | |
| 1995 | - Cornelia Nixon: "The Women Come and Go" (New England Review)
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| 1994 | - Alison Baker: "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight" (The Atlantic Monthly)
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| 1993 | - Thom Jones: "The Pugilist at Rest" (The New Yorker)
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| 1992 | - Cynthia Ozick: "Puttermesser Paired" (The New Yorker)
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| 1991 | |
| 1990 | - Leo E. Litwak: "The Eleventh Edition" (TriQuarterly)
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| 1989 | - Ernest J. Finney: "Peacocks" (The Sewanee Review)
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| 1988 | |
| 1987 | - Louise Erdrich: "Fleur" (Esquire)
- Joyce Johnson: "The Children's Wing" Harper's Magazine
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| 1986 | |
| 1985 | - Stuart Dybek: "Hot Ice" (Antaeus)
- Jane Smiley: "Lily" (The Atlantic Monthly)
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| 1984 | - Cynthia Ozick: "Rosa" (The New Yorker)
- Gordon Lish: "For Jeromé—with Love and Kisses" ("The Antioch Review")
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| 1983 | |
| 1982 | - Susan Kenney: "Facing Front" (Epoch)
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| 1981 | - Cynthia Ozick: "The Shawl" (The New Yorker)
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| 1980 | |
| 1979 | - Gordon Weaver: "Getting Serious" (The Sewanee Review)
- Anne Leaton: "The Passion of Marco Z" (Transatlantic Review)
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| 1978 | |
| 1977 | - Shirley Hazzard: "A Long Story Short" (The New Yorker)
- Ella Leffland: "Last Courtesies" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1976 | - Harold Brodkey: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft" (Esquire)
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| 1975 | - Harold Brodkey: "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode" (The New Yorker)
- Cynthia Ozick: "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)” (Esquire)
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| 1974 | - Renata Adler: "Brownstone” (The New Yorker)
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| 1973 | |
| 1972 | - John Batki: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie" (The New Yorker)
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| 1971 | - Florence M. Hecht: "Twin Bed Bridge" (The Atlantic Monthly)
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| 1970 | - Robert Welton Hemenway: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles" (The New Yorker)
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| 1965 | |
| 1964 | - John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cytherain" (The New Yorker)
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| 1963 | - Terry Southern: "The Road Out of Axotle" (Esquire)
- Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (New World Writing)
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| 1962 | |
| 1961 | - Tillie Olsen: "Tell Me a Riddle" (New World Writing)
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| 1960 | - Lawrence Sargent Hall: "The Ledge" (The Hudson Review)
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| 1959 | - Peter Taylor: "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time" (The Kenyon Review)
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| 1955 | |
| 1954 | - Thomas Mabry: "The Indian Feather" (The Sewanee Review)
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| 1951 | - Harris Downey: "The Hunters" (Epoch)
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| 1950 | - Wallace Stegner: "The Blue-Winged Teal" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1949 | |
| 1948 | |
| 1947 | - John Bell Clayton: "The White Circle" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1946 | - John Mayo Goss: "Bird Song" (The Atlantic Monthly)
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| 1945 | - Walter Van Tilburg Clark: "The Wind and the Snow of Winter" (The Yale Review)
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| 1944 | - Irwin Shaw: "Walking Wounded" (The New Yorker)
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| 1943 | |
| 1942 | |
| 1941 | - Kay Boyle: "Defeat" (The New Yorker)
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| 1940 | |
| 1939 | |
| 1938 | - Albert Maltz: "The Happiest Man on Earth" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1937 | - Stephen Vincent Benét: "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (The Saturday Evening Post)
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| 1936 | |
| 1935 | - Kay Boyle: "The White Horses of Vienna" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1934 | - Louis Paul: "No More Trouble for Jedwick" (Esquire)
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| 1933 | - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Gal Young Un" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1932 | - Stephen Vincent Benét: "An End to Dreams" (Pictorial Review)
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| 1931 | - Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself" (Pictorial Review)
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| 1930 | - W. R. Burnett: "Dressing-Up" (Harper's Magazine)
- William H. John: "Neither Jew nor Greek" (The Century Magazine)
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| 1929 | |
| 1928 | - Walter Duranty: "The Parrot" (Redbook)
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| 1927 | - Roark Bradford: "Child of God" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1926 | - Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Bubbles" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1925 | - Julian Street: "Mr. Bisbee's Princess” in Redbook, May 1925
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| 1924 | - Inez Haynes Irwin: "The Spring Flight" (McCall's)
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| 1923 | - Edgar Valentine Smith: "Prelude" (Harper's Magazine)
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| 1922 | |
| 1921 | - Edison Marshall: "The Heart of Little Shikara” (Everybody's Magazine)
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| 1920 | - Maxwell Struthers Burt: "Each in His Generation (Scribner's Magazine)
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| 1919 | - Margaret Prescott Montague: "England to America" (The Atlantic Monthly)
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