Pat Carr Prize for Mainstream Literary Short Story

Pat Carr has published eighteen books, including the Iowa Short Fiction Prize winner The Women in the Mirror, and has had over one hundred stories published in such places as The Southern Review, Yale Review, and Best American Short Stories. The Death of a Confederate Colonel, a nominee for the Faulkner Award, won the PEN Southwest Fiction Award and the John Estes Cooke Fiction Award, and was voted one of the top ten books from university presses for 2007 by Foreword Magazine. She has won numerous other awards, including a Library of Congress MARC IV, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award, an Al Smith Literary Fellowship, and a Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt Writing Fellowship in Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Carr is the 2013 recipient of The Porter Fund Literary Prize, presented annually to an Arkansas writer who has accomplished a substantial and impressive body of work that merits enhanced recognition. Her latest publications are a memoir, One Page at a Time: On a Writing Life; a how-to writing book, Writing Fiction with Pat Carr; a novella, The Radiance of Fossils; and a story collection, The House on Prytania. She has taught literature and writing in colleges across the southern United States. In recognition of her remarkable body of work and in honor of her many contributions as a past board member and longtime workshop leader, The International Women’s Writing Guild is pleased to present the Pat Carr Prize for Mainstream Literary Short Story.

Country of Publication

United States