Whiting Writers' Award

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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. Winners receive US $40,000.

[edit] 2006 recipients

  • 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

[edit] 2005 recipients

[edit] 2004 recipients

[edit] 2003 recipients

[edit] 2002 recipients

  • 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

[edit] 2001 recipients

[edit] 2000 recipients

[edit] 1999 recipients

  • 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

[edit] 1998 recipients

  • 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

[edit] 1997 recipients

[edit] 1996 recipients

[edit] 1995 recipients

[edit] 1994 recipients

  • 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

[edit] 1993 recipients

[edit] 1992 recipients

[edit] 1991 recipients

[edit] 1990 recipients

[edit] 1989 recipients

[edit] 1988 recipients

[edit] 1987 recipients

[edit] 1986 recipients

[edit] 1985 recipients

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