The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. and "The Tomb of Wrestling, and " Jo Ann Beard, Tin House and "Counterblast, and " Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review and "Nayla, and " Youmna Chlala, Prairie Schooner and "Lucky Dragon, and " Viet Dinh, Ploughshares and "Stop 'n' Go, and " Michael Parker, New England Review and "Past Perfect Continuous, and " Dounia Choukri, Chicago Quarterly Review and "Inversion of Marcia, and " Thomas Bolt, n+1 and "Nights in Logar, and " Jamil Jan Kochai, A Public Space and "How We Eat, and " Mark Jude Poirier, Epoch and "Deaf and Blind, and " Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker and "Why Were They Throwing Bricks?, and " Jenny Zhang, n+1 and "An Amount of Discretion, and " Lauren Alwan, The Southern Review and "Queen Elizabeth, and " Brad Felver, One Story and "The Stamp Collector, and " Dave King, Fence and "More or Less Like a Man, and " Michael Powers, The Threepenny Review and "The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies, and " Jo Lloyd, Zoetrope and "Up Here, and " Tristan Hughes, Ploughshares and "The Houses That Are Left Behind, and " Brenda Walker, The Kenyon Review and "We Keep Them Anyway, and " Stephanie A. Vega, The Threepenny Review and "Solstice, and " Anne Enright, The New YorkerPrize Jury for 2018: Fiona McFarlane, Ottessa Moshfegh, Elizabeth Tallent