YOU CAN'T SPELL BOISE...; Without O (Henry)

The 2003 O. Henry Prize Stories have recently been published, and this year's anthology of twenty compelling and accomplished short stories has a notable emphasis on Boise. Of the twenty stories culled from more than a thousand appearing in North America over the past year, two were published first in the 2002 issue of the Idaho Review, and one is former Boise resident Anthony Doerr's title story, "The Shell Collector," published in the Chicago Review's Winter 2001/Spring 2002 issue.

Established in 1919, and published annually be Random House's Anchor Books, the O. Henry's goal is to seek out, honor, then share the work of short story writers who have risen above, who have created …