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Two authors win Flannery O’Connor Awards for short fiction
By Stephanie Hansen

The 1999 winners of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, given each year by the UGA Press, are Robert Anderson and Bill Roorbach. For the first time this year, the awards were publicly announced at a gala event. The celebration both honored the memory of O’Connor, noted Georgia writer, and launched the effort to raise an endowment to support the award. The awards were presented to the authors by Stephen Portch, chancellor of the University System of Georgia, at the City Club of Macon in the fall.
Robert Anderson’s short stories have appeared in the Iowa Review and New Letters, and he was recently awarded honorable mention in the 1999 Carson McCullers Prize for Short Fiction, sponsored by Story Magazine. Anderson lives and works in New York City, where he is currently working on a parody of a historical novel set in Venice.
Bill Roorbach is a member of the English department faculty at Ohio State University, where he teaches creative writing. His short stories, essays, memoirs and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Iowa Review, Harper’s Magazine, Granta and other national publications. He is a regular book critic for Newsday and fiction editor for the Ohio State University Press’s Sandstone Prize. He is also editing a collection of creative non-fiction for Oxford University Press and completing a novel entitled Here on the Ground.
The Flannery O’Connor Award series, edited by Charles East, was established by the UGA Press in 1983 to encourage gifted young writers by bringing their work to the attention of readers and reviewers.
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