Whiting Awards

Whiting Awards
Whiting Awards
Website	http://www.whiting.org/awards/

The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the and has been presented since 1985. As of 2021, winners receive US$50,000.^[1]^[2]

The nominees are chosen through a juried process, and the final winners are selected by a committee of writers, scholars, and editors, selected each year by the Foundation. Writers cannot apply for the prize themselves, and the Foundation does not accept unsolicited nominations.^[3]

	Categories
Year	Poetry	Fiction	Non-fiction	Drama
2021^[4]	Joshua Bennett Marwa Helal Ladan Osman Xandria Phillips	Steven Dunn Tope Folarin	Sarah Stewart Johnson	Jordan E. Cooper Donnetta Lavinia Grays Sylvia Khoury
2020	Aria Aber Genya Turovskaya	Ling Ma	Jaquira Díaz Jia Tolentino
2019^[5]	Vanessa Angélica Villarreal	Hernan Diaz Nafissa Thompson-Spires Merritt Tierce,	Terese Marie Mailhot Nadia Owusu	Michael R. Jackson, Lauren Yee
2018	Anne Boyer Tommy Pico	Patrick Cottrell Brontez Purnell	Anne Boyer Esmé Weijun Wang Weike Wang	Hansol Jung Antoinette Nwandu
2017^[6]	Simone White Phillip B. Williams	Jen Beagin Kaitlyn Greenidge Lisa Halliday Tony Tulathimutte		Clare Barron James Ijames
2016	Layli Long Soldier Ocean Vuong	Mitchell S. Jackson Alice Sola Kim Catherine Lacey	Brian Blanchfield	Madeleine George
2015	Anthony Carelli Aracelis Girmay Roger Reeves	Dan Josefson Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi	Elena Passarello	Lucas Hnath Anne Washburn
2013	Ishion Hutchinson Rowan Ricardo Phillips	Amanda Coplin Jennifer duBois C.E. Morgan Stephanie Powell Watts		Virginia Grise
2012	Ciaran Berry Atsuro Riley	Alan Heathcock Anthony Marra Hanna Pylväinen	Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts	Samuel D. Hunter Danai Gurira Mona Mansour Meg Miroshnik
2011	Don Mee Choi Eduardo C. Corral Shane McCrae Kerri Webster	Ryan Call Scott Blackwood Daniel Orozco Teddy Wayne,	Paul Clemens	Amy Herzog
2010	Matt Donovan Jane Springer L.B. Thompson	Michael Dahlie Rattawut Lapcharoensap Lydia Peelle	Elif Batuman Amy Leach Saïd Sayrafiezadeh	David Adjmi
2009	Jericho Brown Jay Hopler Joan Kane	Adam Johnson Nami Mun Salvatore Scibona Vu Tran	Michael Meyer Hugh Raffles	Rajiv Joseph
2008	Rick Hilles, poetry Douglas Kearney, poetry Julie Sheehan, poetry	Mischa Berlinski, fiction Laleh Khadivi, fiction Manuel Muñoz, fiction Benjamin Percy, fiction Lysley Tenorio, fiction	Donovan Hohn, nonfiction	Dael Orlandersmith, plays
2007	Paul Guest, poetry Cate Marvin, poetry	Ben Fountain, fiction Brad Kessler, fiction Dalia Sofer, fiction	Carlo Rotella, nonfiction Peter Trachtenberg, nonfiction Jack Turner, nonfiction	Sheila Callaghan, plays Tarell Alvin McCraney, plays
2006	Sherwin Bitsui, poetry Tyehimba Jess, poetry Suji Kwock Kim, poetry	Charles D’Ambrosio, fiction Yiyun Li, fiction Micheline Aharonian Marcom, fiction Nina Marie Martínez, fiction Patrick O’Keeffe, fiction		Stephen Adly Guirgis, plays Bruce Norris, plays
2005	Thomas Sayers Ellis, poetry Ilya Kaminsky, poetry John Keene, fiction/poetry Dana Levin, poetry Spencer Reece, poetry Tracy K. Smith, poetry	Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, fiction Nell Freudenberger, fiction Seth Kantner, fiction		Rinne Groff, plays
2004	Catherine Barnett, poetry Dan Chiasson, poetry A. Van Jordan, poetry	Kirsten Bakis, fiction Daniel Alarcón, fiction Victor LaValle, fiction	Allison Glock, nonfiction John Jeremiah Sullivan, nonfiction	Elana Greenfield, plays Tracey Scott Wilson, plays
2003	Major Jackson, poetry	Alexander Chee, fiction Courtney Angela Brkic, fiction and nonfiction Agymah Kamau, fiction Ann Pancake, fiction Lewis Robinson, fiction Jess Row, fiction	Christopher Cokinos, nonfiction Trudy Dittmar, nonfiction	Sarah Ruhl, plays
2002	Elizabeth Arnold, poetry David Gewanter, poetry Joshua Weiner, poetry	Jeffery Renard Allen, fiction Justin Cronin, fiction Kim Edwards, fiction Michelle Huneven, fiction Danzy Senna, fiction		Melissa James Gibson, plays Evan Smith, plays
2001	Joel Brouwer, poetry Jason Sommer, poetry	Emily Carter, fiction Matthew Klam, fiction Akhil Sharma, fiction Samrat Upadhyay, fiction John Wray, fiction	Judy Blunt, nonfiction Kathleen Finneran, nonfiction	Brighde Mullins, plays
2000	Albert Mobilio, poetry/fiction James Thomas Stevens (Aronhiotas), poetry Claude Wilkinson, poetry	Samantha Gillison, fiction Robert Cohen, fiction Lily King, fiction John McManus, fiction Colson Whitehead, fiction	Andrew X. Pham, nonfiction	Kelly Stuart, plays
1999	, poetry Terrance Hayes, poetry Martha Zweig, poetry	Ehud Havazelet, fiction Ben Marcus, fiction Yxta Maya Murray, fiction ZZ Packer, fiction	Gordon Grice, nonfiction Margaret Talbot, nonfiction	Naomi Iizuka, plays
1998	Nancy Eimers, poetry Daniel Hall, poetry James Kimbrell, poetry Charles Harper Webb, poetry Greg Williamson, poetry	Michael Byers, fiction	Ralph Lombreglia, fiction/nonfiction D. J. Waldie, nonfiction Anthony Walton, nonfiction	W. David Hancock, plays
1997	Connie Deanovich, poetry Forrest Gander, poetry Jody Gladding, poetry Mark Turpin, poetry	Suketu Mehta, fiction/nonfiction Josip Novakovich, fiction/ nonfiction Melanie Rae Thon, fiction	Jo Ann Beard, nonfiction Ellen Meloy, nonfiction	Erik Ehn, plays
1996	Brigit Pegeen Kelly, poetry Elizabeth Spires, poetry	Cristina García, fiction Anderson Ferrell, fiction Brian Kiteley, fiction Molly Gloss, fiction Judy Troy, fiction A.J. Verdelle, fiction	Chris Offutt, fiction/nonfiction Patricia Storace, nonfiction/ poetry
1995	Lucy Grealy, nonfiction/ poetry Mary Ruefle, poetry James McMichael, poetry	Michael Cunningham, fiction Matthew Stadler, fiction Reginald McKnight, fiction Melanie Sumner, fiction	André Aciman, nonfiction Russ Rymer, nonfiction Suzannah Lessard, nonfiction
1994	Mark Doty, poetry Mary Swander, poetry/nonfiction	Louis Edwards, fiction Mary Hood, fiction Kate Wheeler, fiction	Kennedy Fraser, nonfiction Randall Kenan, fiction/nonfiction Wayne Koestenbaum, nonfiction/poetry Rosemary Mahoney, nonfiction Claudia Roth Pierpont, nonfiction
1993	Mark Levine, poetry Nathaniel Mackey, poetry/fiction Dionisio D. Martinez poetry Kathleen Peirce, poetry	Dagoberto Gilb, fiction Sigrid Nunez, fiction Jeffrey Eugenides, fiction Janet Peery, fiction Lisa Shea, fiction		Kevin Kling, plays
1992	Roger Fanning, poetry Jane Mead, poetry Katha Pollitt, poetry/nonfiction	R.S. Jones, fiction J.S. Marcus, fiction Damien Wilkins, fiction	Eva Hoffman, nonfiction	Suzan-Lori Parks, plays Keith Reddin, plays José Rivera, plays
1991	Thylias Moss, poetry Franz Wright, poetry	Rebecca Goldstein, fiction Allegra Goodman, fiction John Holman, fiction Rick Rofihe, fiction Cynthia Kadohata, fiction	Stanley Crouch, nonfiction J Anton Shammas, fiction/nonfiction	Scott McPherson, plays
1990	Emily Hiestand, poetry Dennis Nurkse, poetry	Yannick Murphy, fiction Lawrence Naumoff, fiction Mark Richard, fiction Christopher Tilghman, fiction Stephen Wright, fiction	Harriet Ritvo, nonfiction Amy Wilentz, nonfiction	Tony Kushner, plays
1989	Russell Edson, poetry Mary Karr, poetry C. D. Wright, poetry	Ellen Akins, fiction Marianne Wiggins, fiction	Ian Frazier, nonfiction Natalie Kusz, nonfiction Luc Sante, nonfiction Tobias Wolff, nonfiction/fiction	Timberlake Wertenbaker, plays
1988	Michael Burkard, poetry Li-Young Lee, poetry Sylvia Moss, poetry	Lydia Davis, fiction Bruce Duffy, fiction Jonathan Franzen, fiction Mary La Chapelle, fiction William T. Vollmann, fiction	Gerald Early, nonfiction Geoffrey O'Brien, nonfiction
1987	Mark Cox, poetry Michael Ryan, poetry	Joan Chase, fiction Pam Durban, fiction Deborah Eisenberg, fiction Alice McDermott, fiction David Foster Wallace, fiction	Mindy Aloff, nonfiction Gretel Ehrlich, nonfiction	Reinaldo Povod, plays
1986	John Ash, poetry Hayden Carruth, poetry Frank Stewart, poetry Ruth Stone, poetry	Kent Haruf, fiction Denis Johnson, fiction Padgett Powell, fiction Mona Simpson, fiction	Darryl Pinckney, nonfiction/fiction	August Wilson, plays
1985	Douglas Crase, poetry Jorie Graham, poetry Linda Gregg, poetry James Schuyler, poetry	Stuart Dybek, fiction Raymond Abbott, fiction Howard Norman, fiction James Robison, fiction	Wright Morris, fiction/nonfiction Austin Wright, fiction/nonfiction

References[]

^ "About the Whiting Awards". Retrieved 19 May 2021.
^ "Substantial Whiting Awards given to 10 up-and-coming writers". 28 October 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
^ "About - Whiting Awards". Retrieved 29 August 2016.
^ "Current Whiting Award winners". The Whiting Foundation. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
^ Dwyer, Colin. "'The Future Of Literature': Whiting Awards Celebrate 10 Emerging Writers". NPR. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
^ "Say Hello to the 2017 Whiting Honorees". The Paris Review. Retrieved 17 April 2017.

External links[]

[1] "About the Whiting Awards". Retrieved 19 May 2021.

[2] "Substantial Whiting Awards given to 10 up-and-coming writers". 28 October 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2016.

[3] "About - Whiting Awards". Retrieved 29 August 2016.

[4] "Current Whiting Award winners". The Whiting Foundation. Retrieved 2021-04-17.

[5] Dwyer, Colin. "'The Future Of Literature': Whiting Awards Celebrate 10 Emerging Writers". NPR. Retrieved 10 April 2019.

[6] "Say Hello to the 2017 Whiting Honorees". The Paris Review. Retrieved 17 April 2017.

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