| 2019 |
- Weike Wang: "Omakase" in The New Yorker
- Rachel Kondo: "Girl of Few Seasons" in Ploughshares Solos
- Tessa Hadley: "Funny Little Snake" in The New Yorker
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| 2018 | Jo Ann Beard: "The Tomb of Wrestling" in Tin House Marjorie Celona: "Counterblast" in The Southern Review |
| 2017 | Michelle Huneven: "Too Good to Be True" in Harper's Amit Majmudar: "Secret Lives of the Detainees" in The Kenyon Review Fiona McFarlane: "Buttony" in The New Yorker |
| 2016 | Asako Serizawa: "Train to Harbin" in The Hudson Review Frederic Tuten: "Winter, 1965" in BOMB Elizabeth Genovise: "Irises" in Cimarron Review |
| 2015 | Dina Nayeri: "A Ride Out of Phrao" in The Alaska Quarterly Review Elizabeth McCracken: "Birdsong from the Radio" in ' Christopher Merkner: "Cabins" in Subtropics |
| 2014 | Mark Haddon: "The Gun" in Granta Kristen Iskandrian: "The Inheritors" in Tin House Laura van den Berg: "Opa-locka" in The Southern Review |
| 2013 | Deborah Eisenberg: "Your Duck Is My Duck" in Fence Kelly Link: "The Summer People" in Tin House Andrea Barrett: "The Particles" in Tin House |
| 2012 | Yiyun Li: "Kindness" in A Public Space Alice Munro: "Corrie" in The New Yorker |
| 2011 | Lynn Freed: "Sunshine" in Narrative Magazine Matthew Neill Null: "Something You Can't Live Without" in Oxford American Jim Shepard: "Your Fate Hurtles Down at You" in Electric Literature |
| 2010 | Daniyal Mueenuddin: in The New Yorker September 15, 2008 James Lasdun: "Oh, Death" in The Paris Review as , Spring 2009 #188 William Trevor: in The New Yorker, December 15, 2008 |
| 2009 | Graham Joyce: "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen" in The Paris Review Junot Díaz: "Wildwood" in The New Yorker |
| 2008 | Alexi Zentner: "Touch" in Tin House Alice Munro: "What Do You Want To Know For?" in The American Scholar William Trevor: "Folie a Deux" in The New Yorker |
| 2007 | Eddie Chuculate: "Galveston Bay, 1826" in Manoa, William Trevor: "The Room" in The New Yorker, May 16, 2005 |
| 2006 | Edward P. Jones: "Old Boys, Old Girls" in The New Yorker, May 3, 2004 Deborah Eisenberg: "Window" in Tin House, Issue 19, Spring 2004 Alice Munro: "Passion" in The New Yorker, March 22, 2004 |
| 2005 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: "Refuge in London" in ', Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 2003 Sherman Alexie: "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" in The New Yorker, April 21, 2003 Elizabeth Stuckey-French: "Mudlavia" in The Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 2003 |
| 2004 | No edition |
| 2003 | Denis Johnson: "Train Dreams" in The Paris Review, Summer 2002 A. S. Byatt: "The Thing in The Forest" in The New Yorker, June 3, 2002 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "The American Embassy" in Prism International |
| 2002 | Kevin Brockmeier: "The Ceiling” in McSweeney's, No. 7 |
| 2001 | Mary Swan: "The Deep” in The Malahat Review, No. 131 |
| 2000 | John Edgar Wideman: "Weight” in The Callaloo Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3 |
| 1999 | Peter Baida: "A Nurse's Story” in The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 13, No. 3 |
| 1998 | Lorrie Moore: "People Like That Are the Only People Here” in The New Yorker, January 27, 1997 |
| 1997 | Mary Gordon: "City Life” in Ploughshares, Vol. 22, No. 1 |
| 1996 | Stephen King: "The Man in the Black Suit” in The New Yorker, October 31, 1994 |
| 1995 | Cornelia Nixon: "The Women Come and Go” in New England Review, Spring 1994 |
| 1994 | Alison Baker: "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight” in The Atlantic Monthly, January 1993 |
| 1993 | Thom Jones: "The Pugilist at Rest” in The New Yorker, December 2, 1991 |
| 1992 | Cynthia Ozick: "Puttermesser Paired” in The New Yorker, October 8, 1990 |
| 1991 | John Updike: "A Sandstone Farmhouse” in The New Yorker, June 11, 1990 |
| 1990 | Leo E. Litwak: "The Eleventh Edition” in TriQuarterly, No. 74, Winter 1989 |
| 1989 | Ernest J. Finney: "Peacocks” in The Sewanee Review, Winter 1988 |
| 1988 | Raymond Carver: "Errand” in The New Yorker, June 1, 1987 |
| 1987 | Louise Erdrich: "Fleur” in Esquire, August 1986 Joyce Johnson: "The Children's Wing” in Harper's Magazine, July 1986 |
| 1986 | Alice Walker: "Kindred Spirits” in Esquire, August 1985 |
| 1985 | Stuart Dybek: "Hot Ice” in Antaeus Jane Smiley: "Lily” in The Atlantic Monthly |
| 1984 | Cynthia Ozick: "Rosa” in The New Yorker, March 21, 1983 Gordon Lish: "For Jeromé—with Love and Kisses" in "The Antioch Review", Summer 1983, 1984 |
| 1983 | Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing” in Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 & 3 |
| 1982 | Susan Kenney: "Facing Front” in Epoch, Winter 1980 |
| 1981 | Cynthia Ozick: "The Shawl” in The New Yorker, May 26, 1980 John Irving: "Interior Space” in "Fiction", Vol. 6, No. 2, 1980 James Tabor: "The Runner” in "The Washingtonian", September 1979 |
| 1980 | Saul Bellow: "A Silver Dish” in The New Yorker, September 25, 1978 |
| 1979 | Gordon Weaver: "Getting Serious” in The Sewanee Review, Fall 1977 Anne Leaton: "The Passion of Marco Z" in Transatlantic Review, 55/56 |
| 1978 | Woody Allen: "The Kugelmass Episode” in The New Yorker, May 2, 1977 |
| 1977 | Shirley Hazzard: "A Long Story Short” in The New Yorker, July 26, 1976 Ella Leffland: "Last Courtesies” in Harper's Magazine, July 1976 |
| 1976 | Harold Brodkey: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft” in Esquire, August 1975 |
| 1975 | Harold Brodkey: "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode” in The New Yorker, September 17, 1973 Cynthia Ozick: "Usurpation ” in Esquire, May 1974 |
| 1974 | Renata Adler: "Brownstone” in The New Yorker, January 27, 1973 |
| 1973 | Joyce Carol Oates: "The Dead” in McCall's, July 1971 |
| 1972 | John Batki: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie” in The New Yorker, March 20, 1971 |
| 1971 | Florence M. Hecht: "Twin Bed Bridge” in The Atlantic Monthly, May 1970 |
| 1970 | Robert Welton Hemenway: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles” in The New Yorker, January 11, 1969 |
| 1969 | Bernard Malamud: "Man in the Drawer” in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1968 |
| 1968 | Eudora Welty: "The Demonstrators” in The New Yorker, November 26, 1966 |
| 1967 | Joyce Carol Oates: "In the Region of Ice” in The Atlantic Monthly, August 1966 |
| 1966 | John Updike: "The Bulgarian Poetess” in The New Yorker, March 13, 1965 |
| 1965 | Flannery O'Connor: "Revelation” in The Sewanee Review, Spring 1964 |
| 1964 | John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cythera” in The New Yorker, November 3, 1962 |
| 1963 | Terry Southern: "The Road Out of Axotle" in "Esquire", August, 1962 Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge” in New World Writing |
| 1962 | Katherine Anne Porter: "Holiday” in The Atlantic Monthly, December 1960 |
| 1961 | Tillie Olsen: "Tell Me a Riddle” in New World Writing, No. 16 |
| 1960 | Lawrence Sargent Hall: "The Ledge” in The Hudson Review, Winter, 1958–59 |
| 1959 | Peter Taylor: "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” in The Kenyon Review |
| 1958 | Martha Gellhorn: "In Sickness as in Health” in The Atlantic Monthly |
| 1957 | Flannery O'Connor: "Greenleaf” in The Kenyon Review |
| 1956 | John Cheever: "The Country Husband” in The New Yorker |
| 1955 | Jean Stafford: "In the Zoo” in The New Yorker |
| 1954 | Thomas Mabry: "The Indian Feather” in The Sewanee Review |
| 1951 | Harris Downey: "The Hunters” in Epoch |
| 1950 | Wallace Stegner: "The Blue-Winged Teal” in Harper's Magazine |
| 1949 | William Faulkner: "A Courtship” in The Sewanee Review |
| 1948 | Truman Capote: "Shut a Final Door” in The Atlantic Monthly |
| 1947 | John Bell Clayton: "The White Circle” in Harper's Magazine |
| 1946 | John Mayo Goss: "Bird Song” in The Atlantic Monthly |
| 1945 | Walter Van Tilburg Clark: "The Wind and the Snow of Winter” in The Yale Review |
| 1944 | Irwin Shaw: "Walking Wounded” in The New Yorker |
| 1943 | Eudora Welty: "Livvie is Back” in The Atlantic Monthly |
| 1942 | Eudora Welty: "The Wide Net” in Harper's Magazine |
| 1941 | Kay Boyle: "Defeat” in The New Yorker |
| 1940 | Stephen Vincent Benét: "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing” in The Saturday Evening Post |
| 1939 | William Faulkner: "Barn Burning” in Harper's Magazine |
| 1938 | Albert Maltz: "The Happiest Man on Earth” in Harper's Magazine |
| 1937 | Stephen Vincent Benét: "The Devil and Daniel Webster” in The Saturday Evening Post |
| 1936 | James Gould Cozzens: "Total Stranger” in The Saturday Evening Post, February 15, 1936 |
| 1935 | Kay Boyle: "The White Horses of Vienna” in Harper's Magazine |
| 1934 | Louis Paul: "No More Trouble for Jedwick” in Esquire |
| 1933 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Gal Young Un” in Harper's Magazine, June & July 1932 |
| 1932 | Stephen Vincent Benét: "An End to Dreams” in Pictorial Review, February 1932 |
| 1931 | Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself” in Pictorial Review |
| 1930 | W. R. Burnett: "Dressing-Up” in Harper's Magazine, November 1929 William M. John: "Neither Jew nor Greek” in Century Magazine, August 1929 |
| 1929 | Dorothy Parker: "Big Blonde” in Bookman Magazine, February 1929 |
| 1928 | Walter Duranty: "The Parrot” in Redbook, March 1928 |
| 1927 | Roark Bradford: "Child of God” in Harper's Magazine, April 1927 |
| 1926 | Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Bubbles” in Harper's Magazine |
| 1925 | Julian Street: "Mr. Bisbee's Princess” in Redbook, May 1925 |
| 1924 | Inez Haynes Irwin: "The Spring Flight” in McCall's, June 1924 |
| 1923 | Edgar Valentine Smith: "Prelude” in Harper's Magazine, May 1923 |
| 1922 | Irvin S. Cobb: "Snake Doctor” in Cosmopolitan, November 1922 |
| 1921 | Edison Marshall: "The Heart of Little Shikara” in Everybody's Magazine, January 1921 |
| 1920 | Maxwell Struthers Burt: "Each in His Generation” in Scribner's Magazine, July 1920 |
| 1919 | Margaret Prescott Montague: "England to America” in The Atlantic Monthly, September 1918 |
