Awards & Honors
Works In Award Anthologies
The Best American Essays 2016: “The Lost Sister: An Elegy” 2000: “They All Just Went Away” : (The Best American Essays of the Century) 1999: “After Amnesia” 1996: “They All […]
The Best American Essays
2016: “The Lost Sister: An Elegy” 
2000: “They All Just Went Away” : (The Best American Essays of the Century)
1999: “After Amnesia”
1996: “They All Just Went Away”
1986: “On Boxing”
The Best American Mystery & Suspense (formerly The Best American Mystery Stories)
2023: “33 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister”
2019: “The Archivist”
2018: “Phantomwise: 1972”
2017: “The Woman in the Window”
2015: “The Home at Craigmillnar”
2013: “So Near Anytime Always”
2009: “Dear Husband,”
2008: “The Blind Man’s Sighted Daughters”
2007: “Meadowlands”
2006: “So Help Me God”
2004: “Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi”
2003: “The Skull”
2002: “High School Sweetheart”
2001: “The Girl with the Blackened Eye”
1999: “Secret, Silent”
1998: “Faithless”
1997: “Will You Always Love Me?”
The Best American Nonrequired Reading
2011: “A Hole in the Head”
The Best American Poetry
2017: “To Marlon Brando in Hell”
1991: “Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, 1942”
The Best American Short Plays
2001-2002: When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn’t Want Me
1993-1994: The Interview
1991-1992: Tone Clusters
The Best American Short Stories
2014: “Mastiff”
2011: “I.D.”
2005: “The Cousins”
1996: “Ghost Girls”
1992: “Is Laughter Contagious?”
1991: “American, Abroad”
1985: “Raven’s Wing”
1984: “Nairobi”
1982: “Theft”
1981: “Presque Isle”
1978: “The Translation”
1977: “Gay”
1973: “Silkie”
1970: “How I Contemplated the World From the Detroit House of Correction, and Began My Life Over Again”
1969: “By the River”
1967: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (This volume dedicated to Joyce Carol Oates)
1965: “First Views of the Enemy”
1964: “Upon the Sweeping Flood”
1963: “The Fine White Mist of Winter
The Best Little Magazine Fiction
1971: “Through the Looking Glass”
1970: “Unmailed, Unwritten Letters”
Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards
A Compilation of original poetry published in magazines of the English-speaking world.
Best Poems of 1973: “Siezure”
Best Poems of 1971: “A Friend Moving Out of Our Lives”
Best Poems of 1970: “Loving”
Horror: The Best of the Year
2007: “Babysitter”
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror
15th (2004): “The Haunting”
Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards
The year’s best stories published by American authors in American periodicals.
2001: “The Girl with the Blackened Eye”
1996: “Mark of Satan”
1995: “You Petted Me, and I Followed You Home”
1993: “Goose-Girl”
1992: “Why Don’t You Come Live With Me It’s Time”
1991: “The Swimmers”
1990: “Heat”
1989: 2nd Prize: “House Hunting”
1988: “Yarrow”
1987: “Ancient Airs, Voices”
1986: Special Award For Continuing Achievement: “Master Race”
1985: “The Seasons”
1983: 2nd Prize: “My Warszawa”
1982: “The Man Whom Women Adored”
1981: “Mutilated Woman”
1979: “In the Autumn of the Year”
1978: “The Tattoo”
1976: “Blood-Swollen Landscape”
1973: 1st Prize: “The Dead”
1972: 2nd Prize: “Saul Bird Says: Relate! Communicate! Liberate!”
1971: “The Children”
1970: Special Award For Continuing Achievement:
“Unmailed, Unwritten Letters” and “How I Contemplated the World From the Detroit House of Correction, and Began My Life Over Again”
“It is a great pleasure to announce that the publishers of the series have established this year a new prize in connection with it: a Special Award for continuing achievement by a writer of established reputation. The award will be made at the discretion of the editor at such times as seem appropriate; and I am very pleased that it should be given for the first time to Joyce Carol Oates, a gifted writer whose achievements and reputation are a part of the history of the American short story in the 1960s.” —William Abrahams
1969: 2nd Prize: “Accomplished Desires”
1968: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
1967: 1st Prize: “In the Region of Ice”
1965: “First Views of the Enemy”
1964: “Stigmata”
1963: “The Fine White Mist of Winter”
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
XLIX: “Mick & Minn” (fiction)
XLII: “Undocumented Alien” (fiction)
XL: “The Childhood of the Reader” (nonfiction)
XXXVII: “Mudgirl, Saved by the King of Crows, April 1965” (fiction)
XXXIV: “Bonobo Momma” (fiction)
XXXII: “Nowhere” (fiction)
XXVIII: “Three Girls” (fiction)
XXVII: “The Instructor” (fiction)
XXV: “The Sharpshooter” (fiction)
XXIII: “Faithless” (fiction)
XX: “The Undesirable Table” (fiction)
XVI: “The Hair” (fiction)
XIV: “Party” (fiction)
XII: “Against Nature” (nonfiction)
VIII: “Notes on Failure” (nonfiction)
VII: “Detente” (fiction)
I: “The Hallucination” (fiction)
The Year’s Best Crime and Mystery Stories
2016: “Gun Accident: An Investigation”
Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror
2020: “The Surviving Child”
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
Twenty-first Annual Collection, 2008: “Valentine, July Heat Wave”
Twentieth Annual Collection, 2007: “Landfill”
Eighteenth Annual Collection, 2005: “Stripping”
Eleventh Annual Collection, 1998: “The Sky-Blue Ball”
Ninth Annual Collection, 1996 : “█████”
Eighth Annual Collection, 1995: “Brothers”
Sixth Annual Collection, 1993: “Martyrdom”
Fourth Annual Collection, 1991: “Ladies and Gentlemen:”
Third Annual Collection, 1990: “Family”
First Annual Collection, 1988: “Haunted”
Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories
1993: “The Model”
Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories
1987, 7th Annual Edition: “Death Cup”
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Randy Souther
I'm a Reference Librarian at the University of San Francisco's Gleeson Library, and I run the Joyce Carol Oates web site, Celestial Timepiece.
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