Whiting Writers' Award (Whiting Writers' Award)

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.

Date Established : 1985

Check all the winners of Whiting Writers' Award presented under Whiting Writers' Award since 1985 .

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