John Simmons Short Fiction Award

The Iowa Short Fiction Award has been presented annually since 1969. In 1998 the University of Iowa Press instituted the John Simmons Short Fiction Award—named after the first director of the Press—to complement the ongoing award series. Both national competitions are juried through the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Serious critical consideration is guaranteed by such final judges as Alison Lurie, Raymond Carver, Marilynne Robinson, James Salter, Kevin Brockmeier, and Ethan Canin.

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Everything Flirts

Everything Flirts

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The Woods

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You Never Get It Back

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Ancestry

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Happy Like This

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The Lightning Jar

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Of This New World

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Excommunicados

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When Mystical Creatures Attack!

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If I’d Known You Were Coming

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Tell Everyone I Said Hi

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Pulp and Paper

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