The Story Prize

Rick Bass of Troy, Montana, won the 2016 Story Prize for For a Little While (Little, Brown). He received $20,000. The finalists were Anna

Noyes of New York City for Goodnight, Beautiful Women (Grove Press) and Helen Maryles Shankman of Teaneck, New Jersey, for They Were

Like Family to Me (Scribner). They each received $5,000. Harold Augenbraum, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, and Daniel Goldin judged. Randa Jarrar of Fresno, California, won the 2016 Story Prize Spotlight Award for Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (Sarabande Books). She received $1,000. Larry Dark and Julie Lindsey judged. The annual awards are given for short story collections published during the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)