Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
1 appearances
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Edition 13 (1988) Winner
Gail Galloway Adams
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Gail Galloway Adams
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- null （Central Texas, United States）
- Died
- null
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Central Texas (early life) → Morgantown, West Virginia, United States (residence)
Career
- Occupations
- writer, short story writer, editor, university professor
- Active Years
- 1970-
- Affiliations
- West Virginia University
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | — | — | University of Georgia Press | 受賞 |
| 1994 | West Virginia Professor of the Year | — | — | Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching | 受賞 |
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
1988
Organization:
University of Georgia Press
Result:
受賞
West Virginia Professor of the Year
1994
Organization:
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Purchase of Order
1995 Short story collectionA collection of short stories that examines everyday details and tensions in relationships, exploring themes of order and disorder, family, and personal choice.
familyorder and disorderinterpersonal relationships
Bibliography
- The Purchase of Order (1995)
- "Hunger" (in The Writing Path 2: Poetry and Prose from Writers' Conferences, 1996)
- "Inside Dope" (in The Flannery O'Connor Award: Selected Stories, 1993)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- concise, character-driven short fictionrealist narrative style
- Recurring Motifs
- domestic tensionmemory and the past's influencesmall-town life
Legacy
Known both as a short story writer and as an educator who mentored many writers at West Virginia University. She also served as an editor for Arts & Letters.
Trivia
- Served as an editor of Arts & Letters.
- Taught at West Virginia University and retired in 2008.
- Resides in Morgantown, West Virginia.