Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award

Anderson, Donald. Fire Road .

Benedict, Dianne. Shiny Objects.

Borofka, David. Hints of His Mortality.

Brazaitis, Mark. The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala.

Chetkovich, Kathryn. Friendly Fire.

Colter, Cyrus. The Beach Umbrella.

Davis, Jennifer S. Her Kind of Want.

Desaulniers, Janet. What You've Been Missing.

Dilworth, Sharon. The Long White.

Dodd, Susan M. Old Wives' Tales.

Feitell, Merrill. Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes.

Fetler, James. Impossible Appetites.

Fracis, Sohrab Homi. Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America.

Francis, H. E. The Itinerary of Beggars.

Frucht, Abby. Fruit of the Month.

Glück, Tereze. May You Live in Interesting Times.

Goodman, Ivy. Heart Failure.

Harleman, Ann. Happiness.

Harris, Elizabeth. The Ant Generator.

Harty, Ryan. Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona.

Helms, Beth. American Wives.

Henry, Jim. Thank You for Being Concerned and Sensitive.

Lenzo, Lisa. Within the Lighted City.

Manfredi, Renée. Where Love Leaves Us.

Mates, Susan Onthank. The Good Doctor.

McNally, John. Troublemakers.

Moffett, Kevin. Permanent Visitors.

Montgomery, Lee. Whose World Is This?

Moore, Rod Val. Igloo among Palms.

Nissen, Thisbe. Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night.

Olsen, Sondra Spatt. Traps.

Oness, Elizabeth. Articles of Faith.

Otto, Lon. A Nest of Hooks.

Poverman, C. E. The Black Velvet Girl.

Pritchett, Michael. The Venus Tree.

Reisman, Nancy. House Fires.

Searle, Elizabeth. My Body to You.

Shomer, Enid. Imaginary Men.

Swick, Marly. A Hole in the Language.

Targan, Barry. Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.

Thomas, Annabel. The Phototropic Woman.

Tomlinson, Jim. Things Kept, Things Left Behind.

Trevor, Douglas. The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space.

Valeri, Laura. The Kind of Things Saints Do.

Varallo, Anthony. This Day in History.

Waters, Don. Desert Gothic.

Williford, Lex. Macauley's Thumb.

Wilson, Miles. Line of Fall.

Working, Russell. Resurrectionists.

Wyatt, Charles. Listening to Mozart.

Zancanella, Don. Western Electric.