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Recipients of the The Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Awards

The short fiction awards are given to a first collection of fiction in English and are administered through the Iowa Writers' Workshop.  The honors are national in scope and have been given since 1969.  The John Simmons Short Fiction Award (named for the first director of the University of Iowa Press) was created in 1988 to complement the existing Iowa Short Fiction Award.

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  • 2010
    Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell, The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti.
    Barbara Hamby, Lester Higata's 20th Century
  • 2009
    Kathryn Ma, All That Work and Still No Boys.
    Jennine Capo Crucet, How to Leave Hialeah: Stories from the Heart of Miami.
  • 2008
    Glen Pourciau, Invite.
    Molly McNett, One Dog Happy.
  • 2007
    Don Waters, Desert Gothic.

    Lee Montgomery, Whose World Is This?

  • 2006
    Jim Tomlinson, Things Kept, Things Left Behind.
    Kevin Moffett, Permanent Visitors.
  • 2005
    Doug Trevor, The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space.
    Anthony Varallo, This Day in History.
  • 2004
    Janet Desaulniers, What You've Been Missing.
    Merrill Feitell, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes.
  • 2003
    Ryan Harty, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona.
    Beth Helms, American Wives.
  • 2002
    Jennifer S. Davis, Her Kind of Want.
    Laura Valeri, The Kind of Things Saints Do.
  • 2001
    Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America
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    Donald Anderson, Fire Road.
  • 2000
    Elizabeth Oness, Articles of Faith.
    John McNally, Troublemakers.
  • 1999
    Nancy Reisman, House Fires.
    Thisbe Nissenn, Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night.
  • 1998
    Kathryn Chetkovich, Friendly Fire.
    Mark Brazaitis, The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala.
  • 1997
    Jim Henry, Thank You for Being Concerned and Sensitive.
    Lisa Lenzo, Within the Lighted City.
  • 1996
    David Borofka, Hints of His Mortality.
    Don Zancanella, Western Electric.
  • 1995
    Charles Wyatt, Listening to Mozart.
    Tereze Gluck, May You Live in Interesting Times.
  • 1994
    Susan Onthank Mates, The Good Doctor.
    Rod Val Moore, Igloo among Palms.
  • 1993
    Ann Harleman, Happiness.
    Lex Williford, Macauley's Thumb.
    Renee Manfredi, Where Love Leaves Us.
  • 1992
    Elizabeth Searle, My Body to You.
    Enid Shomer, Imaginary Men.
  • 1991
    Elizabeth Harris, The Ant Generator.
    Sondra Spatt Olsen, Traps.
  • 1990
    Mary Swick, A Hole in the Language.
  • 1989
    Starkey Flythe, Jr., Lent: The Slow Fast.
    Miles Wilson, Line of Fall.
  • 1988
    Sharon Dilworth, The Long White.
    Michael Pritchett, The Venus Tree.
  • 1987
    Abby Frucht, Fruit of the Month.
    Lucia Nevai, Star Game.
  • 1986
    Dan O'Brien, Eminent Domain.
    Russell Working, Resurrectionists.
  • 1985
    Robert Boswell, Dancing in the Movies.
  • 1984
    Susan M. Dodd, Old Wives' Tales.
  • 1983
    Ivy Goodman, Heart Failure.
  • 1982
    Dianne Benedict, Shiny Objects.
  • 1981
    Annabel Thomas, The Phototropic Woman.
  • 1980
    James Fetler, Impossible Appetites.
  • 1979
    Mary Hedin, Fly Away Home.
  • 1978
    Lon Otto, A Nest of Hooks.
  • 1977
    Pat Carr, The Women in the Mirror.
  • 1976
    C. E. Poverman, The Black Velvet Girl.
  • 1975
    Barry Targan, Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.
  • 1974
    Natalie L. M. Petesch, After the First Death There Is No Other.
  • 1973
    H. E. Francis, The Itinerary of Beggars.
  • 1972
    Jack Cady, The Burning and Other Stories.
  • 1971
    Philip F. O'Connor, Old Morals, Small Continents, Darker Times.
  • 1970
    Cyrus Colter, The Beach Umbrella

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