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GAMBIER, Ohio, Jan. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two short stories that originally appeared in The Kenyon Review will receive more widespread acclaim this month as Anchor Books publishes the stories in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005. Gail Jones's "Desolation" and Ron Rash's "Speckle Trout" were awarded the prestigious O. Henry Prize last fall. Only twenty stories are selected for the prize each year, out of hundreds submitted by magazine editors throughout North America.
Both of the Review's winning stories came from authors new to the literary journal. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005 contains brief essays from the three distinguished jurors on their favorite story and comments from the prize-winning writers on the inspiration for their stories.
These recent prizes bring the Review's total O. Henry Prize selections to 35, securing a spot for the magazine on O. Henry's "notable magazines" list, alongside heavy-hitting commercial publications such as The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly. The Review's first O. Henry Prize was in 1944 for Marguerite Young's story "Old James."
Jones, who works at the University of Western Australia, is the author of two collections of short stories: "The House of Breathing" (1992) and "Fetish Lives" (1997), both published in the United States by George Braziller. Jones published her first novel, "Black Mirror," with Picador Australia.
Rash holds the John and Dorothy Parris Distinguished Professorship in Appalachian Cultural Study at Western Carolina University. His first novel, "One Foot in Eden," was published by Novello Festival Press.
The O. Henry Prize is named in honor of William Sidney Porter, who adopted the pseudonym of O. Henry. A fiction writer with an illustrious life, O. Henry penned many of his stories in prison. When he was released from prison, he was invited to New York where he continued to write for the next eight years until his death in 1910.
CONTACT: Shawn Presley, Kenyon College Media Relations, 740-427-5592
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