Voor meer informatie of volledige lijsten van jaarlijkse winnaars, bezoek de website van The O. Henry Prize Stories.
   | 2012 |  Yiyun Li: "Vriendelijkheid" in een openbare ruimteAlice Munro: "Corrie" in The New Yorker | 
  | 2011 |  Lynn Freed: "Sunshine"Matthew Neill Null: "Something You Can't Live Without"Jim Shepard: "Your Fate Hurtles Down at You" | 
  | 2010 |  Daniyal Mueenuddin: "A Spoiled Man" in The New Yorker 15 september 2008.James Lasdun: "Oh, Death" in The Paris Review als "The Hollow", lente 2009 #188William Trevor: "The Woman of the House" in The New Yorker, 15 december 2008. | 
  | 2009 |  | 
  | 2008 |  Alexi Zentner: "Touch" in Tin HouseAlice Munro: "What Do You Want To Know For?" in The American ScholarWilliam Trevor: "Folie a Deux" in The New Yorker | 
  | 2007 |  Eddie Chuculate: "Galveston Bay, 1826" in Manoa, Vol 16., No. 2, Winter 2004.William Trevor: "The Room" in The New Yorker, 16 mei 2005. | 
  | 2006 |  Edward P. Jones: "Old Boys, Old Girls" in The New Yorker, 3 mei 2004.Deborah Eisenberg: "Window" in Tin House, Issue 19, Spring 2004.Alice Munro: "Passie" in The New Yorker, 22 maart 2004. | 
  | 2005 |  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: "Refuge in London" in Zoetrope, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 2003.Sherman Alexie: "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" in The New Yorker, 21 april 2003.Elizabeth Stuckey-French: "Mudlavia" in The Atlantic Monthly, sept. 2003. | 
  | 2004 |  | 
  | 2003 |  Denis Johnson: "Train Dreams" in The Paris Review, zomer 2002.A. S. Byatt: "The Thing in The Forest" in The New Yorker, 3 juni 2002. | 
  | 2002 |  Kevin Brockmeier: "Het plafond" in McSweeney's, nr. 7. | 
  | 2001 |  Mary Swan: "The Deep" in The Malahat Review, nr. 131. | 
  | 2000 |  John Edgar Wideman: "Weight" in The Callaloo Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3. | 
  | 1999 |  Peter Baida: "A Nurse's Story" in The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 13, No. 3. | 
  | 1998 |  Lorrie Moore: "People Like That Are the Only People Here" in The New Yorker, 27 januari 1997. | 
  | 1997 |  Mary Gordon: "City Life" in Ploughshares, Vol. 22, No. 1. | 
  | 1996 |  Stephen King: "The Man in the Black Suit" in The New Yorker, 31 oktober 1994. | 
  | 1995 |  Cornelia Nixon: "De vrouwen komen en gaan" in New England Review, voorjaar 1994. | 
  | 1994 |  Alison Baker: "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight" in The Atlantic Monthly, januari 1993. | 
  | 1993 |  Thom Jones: "The Pugilist at Rest" in The New Yorker, 2 december 1991. | 
  | 1992 |  Cynthia Ozick: "Puttermesser Paired" in The New Yorker, 8 oktober 1990. | 
  | 1991 |  John Updike: "A Sandstone Farmhouse" in The New Yorker, 11 juni 1990. | 
  | 1990 |  Leo E. Litwak: "The Eleventh Edition" in TriQuarterly, nr. 74, Winter 1989. | 
  | 1989 |  Ernest J. Finney: "Peacocks" in The Sewanee Review, Winter 1988. | 
  | 1988 |  Raymond Carver: "Errand" in The New Yorker, 1 juni 1987. | 
  | 1987 |  Louise Erdrich: "Fleur" in Esquire, augustus 1986.Joyce Johnson: "The Children's Wing" in Harper's Magazine, juli 1986. | 
  | 1986 |  Alice Walker: "Kindred Spirits" in Esquire, augustus 1985. | 
  | 1985 |  Stuart Dybek: "Hot Ice" in AntaeusJane Smiley: "Lily" in The Atlantic Monthly | 
  | 1984 |  Cynthia Ozick: "Rosa" in The New Yorker, 21 maart 1983.Gordon Lish: "For Jeromé-with Love and Kisses" in "The Antioch Review", zomer 1983, 1984 | 
  | 1983 |  Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing" in Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 & 3. | 
  | 1982 |  Susan Kenney: "Facing Front" in Epoch, Winter 1980. | 
  | 1981 |  Cynthia Ozick: "The Shawl" in The New Yorker, 26 mei 1980. | 
  | 1980 |  Saul Bellow: "A Silver Dish" in The New Yorker, 25 september 1978. | 
  | 1979 |  Gordon Weaver: "Getting Serious" in The Sewanee Review, herfst 1977.Anne Leaton: "De passie van Marco Z" in Transatlantic Review, 55/56. | 
  | 1978 |  Woody Allen: "The Kugelmass Episode" in The New Yorker, 2 mei 1977. | 
  | 1977 |  Shirley Hazzard: "A Long Story Short" in The New Yorker, 26 juli 1976.Ella Leffland: "Last Courtesies" in Harper's Magazine, juli 1976. | 
  | 1976 |  Harold Brodkey: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft" in Esquire, Augustus 1975 | 
  | 1975 |  Harold Brodkey: "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode" in The New Yorker, 17 september 1973.Cynthia Ozick: "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)" in Esquire, mei 1974. | 
  | 1974 |  Renata Adler: "Brownstone" in The New Yorker, 27 januari 1973. | 
  | 1973 |  Joyce Carol Oates: "The Dead" in McCall's, Juli 1971 | 
  | 1972 |  John Batki: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie" in The New Yorker, 20 maart 1971. | 
  | 1971 |  Florence M Hecht: "Twin Bed Bridge" in The Atlantic Monthly, mei 1970. | 
  | 1970 |  Robert Hemenway: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles" in The New Yorker, 11 januari 1969. | 
  | 1969 |  Bernard Malamud: "Man in de la" in The Atlantic Monthly, april 1968. | 
  | 1968 |  Eudora Welty: "The Demonstrators" in The New Yorker, 26 november 1966. | 
  | 1967 |  Joyce Carol Oates: "In the Region of Ice" in The Atlantic Monthly, augustus 1966. | 
  | 1966 |  John Updike: "De Bulgaarse dichteres" in The New Yorker, 13 maart 1965. | 
  | 1965 |  Flannery O'Connor: "Revelation" in The Sewanee Review, voorjaar 1964. | 
  | 1964 |  John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cythera" in The New Yorker, 3 november 1962. | 
  | 1963 |  Terry Southern: "The Road Out of Axotle" in "Esquire", augustus 1962.Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge" in New World Writing | 
  | 1962 |  Katherine Anne Porter: "Holiday" in The Atlantic Monthly, december 1960. | 
  | 1961 |  Tillie Olsen: "Vertel me een raadsel" in New World Writing, nr. 16. | 
  | 1960 |  Lawrence Sargent Hall: "The Ledge" in The Hudson Review, Winter, 1958-59 | 
  | 1959 |  Peter Taylor: "Venus, Cupido, Dwaasheid en Tijd" in The Kenyon Review | 
  | 1958 |  Martha Gellhorn: "In ziekte als in gezondheid" in The Atlantic Monthly | 
  | 1957 |  Flannery O'Connor: "Greenleaf" in The Kenyon Review | 
  | 1956 |  John Cheever: "The Country Husband" in The New Yorker | 
  | 1955 |  Jean Stafford: "In the Zoo" in The New Yorker | 
  | 1954 |  Thomas Mabry: "The Indian Feather" in The Sewanee Review | 
  | 1951 |  Harris Downey: "The Hunters" in Epoch | 
  | 1950 |  Wallace Stegner: "The Blue-Winged Teal" in Harper's Magazine | 
  | 1949 |  | 
  | 1948 |  Truman Capote: "Sluit een laatste deur" in The Atlantic Monthly | 
  | 1947 |  John Bell Clayton: "The White Circle" in Harper's Magazine | 
  | 1946 |  John Mayo Goss: "Bird Song" in The Atlantic Monthly | 
  | 1945 |  Walter Van Tilburg Clark: "De wind en de sneeuw van de winter" in The Yale Review | 
  | 1944 |  Irwin Shaw: "Walking Wounded" in The New Yorker | 
  | 1943 |  | 
  | 1942 |  | 
  | 1941 |  Kay Boyle: "Defeat" in The New Yorker | 
  | 1940 |  Stephen Vincent Benét: "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing" in The Saturday Evening Post | 
  | 1939 |  | 
  | 1938 |  Albert Maltz: "The Happiest Man on Earth" in Harper's Magazine | 
  | 1937 |  Stephen Vincent Benét: "The Devil and Daniel Webster" in The Saturday Evening Post | 
  | 1936 |  James Gould Cozzens: "Total Stranger" in The Saturday Evening Post, 15 februari 1936. | 
  | 1935 |  Kay Boyle: "De witte paarden van Wenen" in Harper's Magazine | 
  | 1934 |  Louis Paul: "No More Trouble for Jedwick" in Esquire | 
  | 1933 |  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Gal Young Un" in Harper's Magazine, juni en juli 1932. | 
  | 1932 |  Stephen Vincent Benét: "An End to Dreams" in Pictorial Review, februari 1932. | 
  | 1931 |  Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself" in Pictorial Review | 
  | 1930 |  W. R. Burnett: "Dressing-Up" in Harper's Magazine, november 1929.William H. John: "Noch Jood noch Griek" in Century Magazine, augustus 1929. | 
  | 1929 |  | 
  | 1928 |  Walter Duranty: "De papegaai" in Redbook, maart 1928. | 
  | 1927 |  Roark Bradford: "Kind van God" in Harper's Magazine, april 1927. | 
  | 1926 |  Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Bubbles" in Harper's Magazine | 
  | 1925 |  Julian Street: "Mr Bisbee's Princess" in Redbook, mei 1925. | 
  | 1924 |  Inez Haynes Irwin: "The Spring Flight" in McCall's, juni 1924. | 
  | 1923 |  Edgar Valentine Smith: "Prelude" in Harper's Magazine, mei 1923. | 
  | 1922 |  Irvin S. Cobb: "Snake Doctor" in Cosmopolitan, november 1922. | 
  | 1921 |  Edison Marshall: "The Heart of Little Shikara" in Everybody's Magazine, januari 1921. | 
  | 1920 |  Maxwell Struthers Burt: "Elk in zijn generatie" in Scribner's Magazine, juli 1920. | 
  | 1919 |  Margaret Prescott Montague: "Engeland naar Amerika" in The Atlantic Monthly, september 1918. |