Winners Click on photo for details 1986 WinnerCynthia Ozick1987 WinnerRobert Coover1988 WinnerDonald Barthelme1989 WinnerTobias Wolff1990 WinnerJoyce Carol Oates1991 WinnerPaul Bowles1992 WinnerEudora Welty1993 WinnerGrace Paley1994 WinnerTillie Olsen1995 WinnerRichard Ford1996 WinnerAndre Dubus1997 WinnerGina Berriault1998 WinnerJohn Edgar Wideman1999 WinnerJoy Williams2000 WinnerDeborah Eisenberg2001 WinnerAlice Munro2002 WinnerMavis Gallant2003 WinnerAntonya Nelson2004 WinnerLorrie Moore2005 WinnerAnn Beattie2006 WinnerJohn Updike2007 WinnerStuart Dybek2008 WinnerAmy Hempel2009 WinnerMary Robison2010 WinnerJames Salter2011 WinnerCharles Baxter2012 WinnerRichard Bausch2013 WinnerElizabeth Spencer2014 WinnerT. C. Boyle2015 WinnerAndrea Barrett2016 WinnerJim Shepard