Publications and Awards

• “Mother of the Groom” was awarded second prize in the 2026 Nimrod Literary Awards, The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, judged by Adam Johnson. Publication of the story is forthcoming from Nimrod.

• “Turncoat” appeared in FOLIO Literary Journal, 2026: Vol. 41
  • https://www.folioliteraryjournal.com/lori-williams-turncoat

The Sewanee Writers’ Conference awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction in 2024.

• “Chickens” appeared online in The Los Angeles Review in August, 2023
  • https://losangelesreview.org/chickens-by-lori-j-williams/

• “Grain” appeared in the Autumn 2021 issue of The Hudson Review.
• First prize in The Hudson Review’s 2021 Short Fiction Contest was awarded to this story
  • https://hudsonreview.com/2021/10/grain/#.YXczHxxOmUk

Works in progress include a novel in stories, “Ephesus, Illinois.”