Whiting Writers' Award

The Whiting Writers' Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.

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

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