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Whiting Awards
Whiting Awards
Awarded for	Exceptional emerging writing in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama
Country	United States
Presented by	Whiting Foundation
Formerly called	Whiting Writers' Awards
Website	https://www.whiting.org/writers/awards/current-winners

The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2021^[update], 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]

Since 2018, the foundation has also awarded Literary Magazine Prizes to US-based nonprofit publications whose audience is adult readers. Prize-winning magazines are invited to work with the Foundation over the course of three years and receive outright grants of $10,000–$20,000 in the first year followed by matching grants in the second and third years.^[4]

Recipients

Whiting Award winners^[5]
Year	Category	Author	Ref.
1985	Fiction	Howard Norman
		James Robison
		Raymond Abbott
		Stuart Dybek
	Fiction & Non-fiction	Wright Morris
	Fiction & Non-fiction	Austin Wright
	Poetry	Douglas Crase
		James Schuyler
		Jorie Graham
		Linda Gregg
1986	Drama	August Wilson
	Fiction	Denis Johnson
		Kent Haruf
		Mona Simpson
		Padgett Powell
	Fiction & Non-fiction	Darryl Pinckney
	Poetry	Frank Stewart
		Hayden Carruth
		John Ash
		Ruth Stone
1987	Drama	Reinaldo Povod
	Fiction	Alice McDermott
		David Foster Wallace
		Deborah Eisenberg
		Joan Chase
		Pam Durban
	Non-fiction	Gretel Ehrlich
	Non-fiction	Mindy Aloff
	Poetry	Mark Cox
	Poetry	Michael Ryan
1988	Fiction	Bruce Duffy
		Jonathan Franzen
		Lydia Davis
		Mary La Chapelle
		William T. Vollmann
	Non-fiction	Geoffrey O'Brien
	Non-fiction	Gerald Early
	Poetry	Li-Young Lee
		Michael Burkard
		Sylvia Moss
1989	Drama	Timberlake Wertenbaker
	Fiction	Ellen Akins
	Fiction	Marianne Wiggins
	Fiction & Non-fiction	Tobias Wolff
	Non-fiction	Ian Frazier
		Lucy Sante
		Natalie Kusz
	Poetry	C. D. Wright
		Mary Karr
		Russell Edson
1990	Drama	Tony Kushner
	Fiction	Christopher Tilghman
		Lawrence Naumoff
		Mark Richard
		Stephen Wright
		Yannick Murphy
	Non-fiction	Amy Wilentz
	Non-fiction	Harriet Ritvo
	Poetry	Dennis Nurkse
	Poetry	Emily Hiestand
1991	Drama	Scott McPherson
	Fiction	Allegra Goodman
		Cynthia Kadohata
		John Holman
		Rebecca Goldstein
		Rick Rofihe
	Fiction & Non-fiction	J Anton Shammas
	Non-fiction	Stanley Crouch
	Poetry	Franz Wright
	Poetry	Thylias Moss
1992	Drama	José Rivera
		Keith Reddin
		Suzan-Lori Parks
	Fiction	Damien Wilkins
		J.S. Marcus
		R.S. Jones
	Non-fiction	Eva Hoffman
	Non-fiction & Poetry	Katha Pollitt
	Poetry	Jane Mead
	Poetry	Roger Fanning
1993	Drama	Kevin Kling
	Fiction	Dagoberto Gilb
		Janet Peery
		Jeffrey Eugenides
		Lisa Shea
		Sigrid Nunez
	Poetry	Dionisio D. Martinez
		Kathleen Peirce
		Mark Levine
		Nathaniel Mackey
1994	Fiction	Kate Wheeler
		Louis Edwards
		Mary Hood
	Fiction & Non-fiction	Randall Kenan
	Non-fiction	Claudia Roth Pierpont
		Kennedy Fraser
		Rosemary Mahoney
	Non-fiction &Poetry	Wayne Koestenbaum
	Non-fiction &Poetry	Mary Swander
	Poetry	Mark Doty
1995	Fiction	Matthew Stadler
		Melanie Sumner
		Michael Cunningham
		Reginald McKnight
	Non-fiction & Poetry	Lucy Grealy
	Non-fiction	André Aciman
		Russ Rymer
		Suzannah Lessard
	Poetry	James McMichael
	Poetry	Mary Ruefle
1996	Fiction	A.J. Verdelle
		Anderson Ferrell
		Brian Kiteley
		Cristina García
		Judy Troy
		Molly Gloss
	Fiction & Non-fiction	Chris Offutt
	Fiction & Non-fiction	Patricia Storace
	Poetry	Brigit Pegeen Kelly
	Poetry	Elizabeth Spires
1997	Drama	Erik Ehn
	Fiction	Melanie Rae Thon
	Fiction & Non-fiction	Josip Novakovich
	Fiction & Non-fiction	Suketu Mehta
	Non-fiction	Ellen Meloy
	Non-fiction	Jo Ann Beard
	Poetry	Connie Deanovich
		Forrest Gander
		Jody Gladding
		Mark Turpin
1998	Drama	W. David Hancock
	Fiction	Michael Byers
	Fiction & Non-fiction	Ralph Lombreglia
	Non-fiction	Anthony Walton
	Non-fiction	D. J. Waldie
	Poetry	Charles Harper Webb
		Daniel Hall
		Greg Williamson
		James Kimbrell
		Nancy Eimers
1999	Drama	Naomi Iizuka
	Fiction	Ben Marcus
		Ehud Havazelet
		Yxta Maya Murray
		ZZ Packer
	Non-fiction	Gordon Grice
	Non-fiction	Margaret Talbot
	Poetry	Martha Zweig
		Michael Haskell
		Terrance Hayes
2000	Drama	Kelly Stuart
	Fiction	Colson Whitehead
		John McManus
		Lily King
		Robert Cohen
		Samantha Gillison
	Non-fiction	Andrew X. Pham
	Poetry & Fiction	Albert Mobilio
	Poetry	Claude Wilkinson
	Poetry	James Thomas Stevens
2001	Drama	Brighde Mullins
	Fiction	Akhil Sharma
		Emily Carter
		John Wray
		Matthew Klam
		Samrat Upadhyay
	Non-fiction	Judy Blunt
	Non-fiction	Kathleen Finneran
	Poetry	Jason Sommer
	Poetry	Joel Brouwer
2002	Drama	Evan Smith
	Drama	Melissa James Gibson
	Fiction	Danzy Senna
		Jeffery Renard Allen
		Justin Cronin
		Kim Edwards
		Michelle Huneven
	Poetry	David Gewanter
		Elizabeth Arnold
		Joshua Weiner
2003	Drama	Sarah Ruhl
	Fiction	Agymah Kamau
		Alexander Chee
		Ann Pancake
		Jess Row
		Lewis Robinson
		Courtney Angela Brkic
	Non-fiction	Christopher Cokinos
	Non-fiction	Trudy Dittmar
	Poetry	Major Jackson
2004	Drama	Elana Greenfield
	Drama	Tracey Scott Wilson
	Fiction	Daniel Alarcón
		Kirsten Bakis
		Victor LaValle
	Non-fiction	Allison Glock
	Non-fiction	John Jeremiah Sullivan
	Poetry	A. Van Jordan
		Catherine Barnett
		Dan Chiasson
2005	Drama	Rinne Groff
	Fiction	Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
		Nell Freudenberger
		Seth Kantner
		John Keene
	Poetry	John Keene
		Thomas Sayers Ellis
		Ilya Kaminsky
		Dana Levin
		Spencer Reece
		Tracy K. Smith
2006	Drama	Bruce Norris	^[6]
	Drama	Stephen Adly Guirgis
	Fiction	Charles D’Ambrosio
		Micheline Aharonian Marcom
		Nina Marie Martínez
		Patrick O’Keeffe
		Yiyun Li
	Poetry	Sherwin Bitsui
		Suji Kwock Kim
		Tyehimba Jess
2007	Drama	Sheila Callaghan
	Drama	Tarell Alvin McCraney
	Fiction	Ben Fountain
		Brad Kessler
		Dalia Sofer
	Non-fiction	Carlo Rotella
		Jack Turner
		Peter Trachtenberg
	Poetry	Cate Marvin
	Poetry	Paul Guest
2008	Drama	Dael Orlandersmith	^[7]
	Fiction	Benjamin Percy
		Laleh Khadivi
		Lysley Tenorio
		Manuel Muñoz
		Mischa Berlinski
	Non-fiction	Donovan Hohn
	Poetry	Douglas Kearney
		Julie Sheehan
		Rick Hilles
2009	Drama	Rajiv Joseph	^[8]
	Fiction	Adam Johnson
		Nami Mun
		Salvatore Scibona
		Vu Tran
	Non-fiction	Hugh Raffles
	Non-fiction	Michael Meyer
	Poetry	Jay Hopler
		Jericho Brown
		Joan Kane
2010	Drama	David Adjmi	^[9]
	Fiction	Lydia Peelle
		Michael Dahlie
		Rattawut Lapcharoensap
	Non-fiction	Amy Leach
		Elif Batuman
		Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
	Poetry	Jane Springer
		L.B. Thompson
		Matt Donovan
2011	Drama	Amy Herzog	^[10]
	Fiction	Daniel Orozco
		Ryan Call
		Scott Blackwood
		Teddy Wayne
	Non-fiction	Paul Clemens
	Poetry	Don Mee Choi
		Eduardo C. Corral
		Kerri Webster
		Shane McCrae
2012	Drama	Danai Gurira	^[11]
		Meg Miroshnik
		Mona Mansour
		Samuel D. Hunter
	Fiction	Alan Heathcock
		Anthony Marra
		Hanna Pylväinen
	Non-fiction	Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
	Poetry	Atsuro Riley
	Poetry	Ciaran Berry
2013	Drama	Virginia Grise	^[12]
	Fiction	Amanda Coplin
		C.E. Morgan
		Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams
		Jennifer duBois
		Stephanie Powell Watts
	Non-fiction	Clifford Thompson
		Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams
		Morgan Meis
	Poetry	Ishion Hutchinson
	Poetry	Rowan Ricardo Phillips
2014	No Award Presented
2015	Drama	Lucas Hnath	^[13]
	Drama	Anne Washburn
	Fiction	Leopoldine Core
		Dan Josefson
		Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
	Non-fiction	Elena Passarello
	Poetry	Anthony Carelli
		Aracelis Girmay
		Jenny Johnson
		Roger Reeves
2016	Drama	Madeleine George	^[14]^[15]
	Fiction	Mitchell S. Jackson
		Alice Sola Kim
		Catherine Lacey
	Non-fiction	Brian Blanchfield
	Non-fiction	J. D. Daniels
	Poetry	LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
		Safiya Sinclair
		Layli Long Soldier
		Ocean Vuong^[16]
2017	Drama	Clare Barron	^[17]^[18]
		Clarence Coo
		James Ijames
	Fiction	Jen Beagin
		Kaitlyn Greenidge
		Lisa Halliday
		Tony Tulathimutte
	Non-fiction	Francisco Cantú
	Poetry	Simone White
	Poetry	Phillip B. Williams
2018	Drama	Nathan Alan Davis	^[19]
		Hansol Jung
		Antoinette Nwandu
	Fiction	Brontez Purnell
	Fiction	Patrick Cottrell
	Non-fiction	Anne Boyer
		Esmé Weijun Wang
		Weike Wang
	Poetry	Anne Boyer
		Rickey Laurentiis
		Tommy Pico
2019	Drama	Lauren Yee	^[20]^[21]
	Drama	Michael R. Jackson
	Fiction	Hernan Diaz (writer)
		Merritt Tierce
		Nafissa Thompson-Spires
	Non-fiction	Nadia Owusu
	Non-fiction	Terese Marie Mailhot
	Poetry	Kayleb Rae Candrilli
		Tyree Daye
		Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
2020	Drama	Will Arbery	^[22]^[23]
	Fiction	Andrea Lawlor
		Genevieve Sly Crane
		Ling Ma
	Non-fiction	Jaquira Díaz
	Non-fiction	Jia Tolentino
	Poetry	Aria Aber
		Diannely Antigua
		Genya Turovskaya
		Jake Skeets
2021	Drama	Jordan E. Cooper	^[24]^[25]
		Donnetta Lavinia Grays
		Sylvia Khoury
	Fiction	Steven Dunn
	Fiction	Tope Folarin
	Non-fiction	Sarah Stewart Johnson
	Poetry	Joshua Bennett
		Marwa Helal
		Ladan Osman
		Xan Phillips
2022	Fiction	Claire Boyles	^[26]
		Rita Bullwinkel
		Megha Majumdar
		Nana Nkweti
	Non-fiction	Anaïs Duplan
		Alexis Pauline Gumbs
		Jesse McCarthy
	Poetry	Ina Cariño
		Anthony Cody
		Claire Schwartz
2023	Drama	Mia Chung	^[27]^[28]
	Fiction	Marcia Douglas
		Sidik Fofana
		Caribbean Fragoza
		R. Kikuo Johnson
	Non-fiction	Linda Kinstler
	Non-fiction	Stephania Taladrid
	Poetry	Tommye Blount
	Poetry	Ama Codjoe
	Poetry & Drama	Milo Wippermann^[29]
2024	Fiction	Aaliyah Bilal	^[30]
		Yoon Choi
		Gothataone Moeng
		Ada Zhang
	Drama	Shayok Misha Chowdhury
	Drama	Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
	Non-fiction & Drama	Javier Zamora
	Poetry	Elisa Gonzalez
		Taylor Johnson
		Charif Shanahan
2025	Fiction	Claire Luchette	^[31]
		Elwin Cotman
		Emil Ferris
		Samuel Kọ́láwọlé
		Shubha Sunder
	Drama	Liza Birkenmeier
	Non-fiction	Aisha Sabatini Sloan
	Non-fiction	Sofi Thanhauser
	Poetry	Karisma Price
	Poetry	Annie Wenstrup

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