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. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.

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  • 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

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[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

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