The Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction
given to the best short story published in The Southern Review each volume year

Eudora Welty, perhaps the most celebrated of those writers The Southern Review helped discover, published seven of her short stories in our pages. She won the O. Henry Award for Short Stories six times; her many awards include the National Medal for Literature, the American Book Award, and a Pulitzer Prize (1969) for her novel The Optimist’s Daughter. Miss Welty remained throughout her life a supporter of The Southern Review, acknowledging the “vital encouragement” she received from editors Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks in the early years of her distinguished career.

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