First Prize: Ernest J. Finney, "Peacocks"
Second Prize: Joyce Carol Oates, "House Hunting"
Third Prize: Harriet Doerr, "Edie: A Life"

Contents"

• Publisher’s Note
• Introduction by William Abrahams
• Peacocks by Ernest J. Finney
• House Hunting by Joyce Carol Oates
• Edie: A Life by Harriet Doerr
• The Sky Fading Upward to Yellow: A Footnote to Literary History by Jean Ross
• CV 10 by Starkey Flythe, Jr.
• After You’re Gone by Alice Adams
• History by Frances Sherwook
• Death of a Duke by Banning K. Lary
• Sinking House by T. Coraghessan Boyle
• The Hit by Catherine Petroski
• American Express by James Salter
• Here and There by David Foster Wallace
• Île Sèche by Susan Minot
• Wrong Stories by Millicent DillonReview Win ’88
• Clandestine Acts by Charles Simmons
• Avid by John Casey
• To Be by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• The Watch by Rick Bass
• Unstable Ground by Ellen Herman
• Child in the Leaves by Charles Dickinson
• Biographies and Some Comments by the Authors