Jan Ellison

Published Stories

“The Company of Men,” originally published in New England Review, reprinted in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 "The Color of Wheat in Winter," originally published in The Hudson Review, reprinted in Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review “Girl in a Dirt Yard,” published in Gulf Coast, Winter/Spring 2009, Volume 21, Issue 1 "Marriage,” Smokelong Quarterly, 2010 “The Hook-Up,” forthcoming from Narrative Magazine “Doing His Laundry for the First Time,” forthcoming from Narrative Magazine “Second First Night,” forthcoming from Narrative Magazine, Fall, 2011

Awards, Citations and Anthologies

2007 O. Henry Prize Second Place, Narrative Magazine Spring Story Contest, 2011 Citation in “100 Other Distinguished Stories,” an appendix to Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Stephen King Special Mention, 2008 Pushcart Prize anthology Winner, Smokelong Quarterly’s 30-word story contest, December 2010 Inclusion in "Method and Madness: The Making of a Story", by Alice LaPlante Wilner Award for Short Fiction, San Francisco State University Clark-Gross Award in the Novel, San Francisco State University Leo Litwak Award for Fiction, Transfer Magazine

Commentary

	Review of "The Color of Wheat in Winter" in Perpetual Folly Reviews of "The Company of Men" in Perpetual Folly and The Short Story Challenge Random House Author Spotlight