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2009 Fiction Prize Results
Final Judge: Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson currently serves as the director of the MFA program in fiction at UC Irvine. He has published four short story collections, three novels, including the recently praised Five Skies (Viking). Carlson’s short stories have been anthologized in dozens of collections, including The Best American Short Stories, The O’ Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. He has been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award.
2009 Indiana Review Fiction Prize Winner
“Efendim”
Rolf Yngve
Runners-Up
“Shuttle”
Roger Sheffer
“The Runciter Project”
Jeff P. Jones
Finalists
“The King of Saying the Wrong Thing”
Tara Cottrell Wright
“Errata”
Rande Daykin
“The New Baby”
Mark Holden
“Bounty ”
Amy Lisabeth Minton
“Rita”
Betsy Denson
“Daycare”
Stace Budzko
We offer our thanks to all who contributed to the success of the 2009 Indiana Review Fiction Prize. All entrants receive a year’s subscription to IR, which will begin with our Summer 2010 issue.
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