Boyle, Annie Dillard, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Johnson, Elmore Leonard, Joyce Carol Oates, Sharon Olds, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Amy Tan, and John Updike.
[7] For the first volume he edited in 1997, Dark added a short-list of fifty other stories with brief summaries and an award for the magazine publishing the best short fiction.
[9] Dark edited six volumes of the O. Henry Awards (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002), collecting a total of 117 stories first published in 41 different magazines and written by 96 authors, including Kevin Brockmeier, Raymond Carver, Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Andre Dubus, Louise Erdrich, Jhumpa Lahiri, Alice Munro, Annie Proulx, George Saunders, David Foster Wallace, and John Edgar Wideman.
He also produced readings to promote the books at venues such as KGB Bar, the National Arts Club, and the 92nd Street Y,[10] featuring writers such as Sherman Alexie, Michael Cunningham, Mary Gordon, Rick Moody, Lorrie Moore, Steven Millhauser, Chaim Potok, and Mona Simpson.
From 2005 through 2020, the three finalists appeared at The New School's Tishman Auditorium, where they read from and discussed their work with Dark before Lindsey announced the winner.