• 2022:
Stories No One Hopes Are About Them by
A. J. Bermudez • 2021:
The Boundaries of Their Dwelling by Blake Sanz • 2020:
Father Guards the Sheep by Sari Rosenblatt • 2019:
Not a Thing to Comfort You by Emily Wortman-Wunder • 2018:
The Water Diviner and Other Stories by Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer • 2017:
Outside Is the Ocean by Matthew Lansburgh • 2016:
November Storm by Robert Oldshue • 2015:
Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories by
Edward Hamlin • 2014:
The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons by Heather A. Slomski • 2013:
Lungs Full of Noise by Tessa Mellas • 2012:
Safe As Houses by
Marie-Helene Bertino • 2011:
Power Ballads by Will Boast • 2010:
The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti by
Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell • 2009:
All That Work and Still No Boys by Kathryn Ma • 2008:
Invite by Glen Pourciau • 2007:
Desert Gothic by Don Waters • 2006:
Things Kept, Things Left Behind by Jim Tomlinson • 2005:
The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space by Doug Trevor • 2004: '''''What You've Been Missing''''' by Janet Desaulniers • 2003:
Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona by
Ryan Harty • 2002:
Her Kind of Want by Jennifer S. Davis • 2001:
Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America by
Sohrab Homi Fracis • 2000:
Troublemakers by John McNally • 1999:
House Fires by
Nancy Reisman • 1998:
The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala by Mark Brazaitis • 1997:
Thank You for Being Concerned and Sensitive by Jim Henry • 1996:
Hints of His Mortality by
David Borofka • 1995:
May You Live in Interesting Times by Tereze Glück • 1994:
Igloo Among Palms by Rod Val Moore • 1993:
Where Love Leaves Us by
Renée Manfredi and '''''Macauley's Thumb''''' by Lex Williford • 1992:
My Body to You by
Elizabeth Searle • 1991:
Traps by Sondra Spatt Olsen • 1990:
A Hole in the Language by Marly Swick • 1989:
Lent: The Slow Fast by Starkey Flythe, Jr. • 1988:
The Long White by Sharon Dilworth • 1987:
Fruit of the Month by Abby Frucht and
Star Game by
Lucia Nevai • 1986:
Eminent Domain by Dan O'Brien and
Resurrectionists by Russell Working • 1985:
Dancing in the Movies by
Robert Boswell • 1984: '''''Old Wives' Tales''''' by Susan M. Dodd • 1983:
Heart Failure by Ivy Goodman • 1982:
Shiny Objects by Dianne Benedict • 1981:
The Phototropic Woman by Annabel Thomas • 1980:
Impossible Appetites by James Fetler • 1979:
Fly Away Home by Mary Hedin • 1978:
A Nest of Hooks by Lon Otto • 1977:
The Women in the Mirror by Pat Carr • 1976:
The Black Velvet Girl by
C.E. Poverman • 1975:
Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto by Barry Targan • 1974:
After the First Death There Is No Other by Natalie L. M. Petesch • 1973:
The Itinerary of Beggars by
H. E. Francis • 1972:
The Burning and Other Stories by
Jack Cady • 1971:
Old Morals, Small Continents, Darker Times by Philip F. O'Connor • 1970:
The Beach Umbrella by
Cyrus Colter ==Winners of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award by year==