UW-Green Bay Emeritus Assoc. Prof. Brian Sutton wins 2023 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction

A short story by Brian Sutton, a UW-Green Bay emeritus associate professor in Humanities, has won the 2023 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction. The story, titled “The Least,” will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Dappled Things. The prize judges described “The Least” this way: “This contemporary parable’s realism, distilled into intoxicatingly strong concentration, is best enjoyed at the cliff’s edge of allegory. This page-turner stood out for the swift pacing and keen urgency with which it offers us a new, and doubtless very different, Misfit-Grandmother pairing [from Flannery O’Connor’s story ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’]. Not to be missed.”