We will announce the 2012 Award Winners this coming Fall but in the mean time you can browse our past winners.
2011 Whiting Writers’ Awards
Front, left to right: Shane McCrae, Amy Herzog, Ryan Call, Scott Blackwood, Kerri Webster
Back: Daniel Orozco, Eduardo C. Corral, Don Mee Choi, Paul Clemens, Teddy Wayne
Photo Credit: Jenn Keller
Front, left to right: Shane McCrae, Amy Herzog, Ryan Call, Scott Blackwood, Kerri Webster
Back: Daniel Orozco, Eduardo C. Corral, Don Mee Choi, Paul Clemens, Teddy Wayne
Photo Credit: Jenn Keller
This Year’s Award Winners
The awards, now $50,000 each, have been given annually since 1985 to writers of exceptional talent and promise in early career. The program has awarded more than $6 million to 270 poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, and playwrights. Among the past recipients who have gone on to achieve acclaim and prominence in their field are Jeffrey Eugenides, Yiyun Li, Tony Kushner, Jonathan Franzen, Lisa Shea, Michael Cunningham, Mary Karr, Allegra Goodman, Wayne Koestenbaum, Rajiv Joseph and Terrance Hayes.
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The Whiting Awards are a wonderful antidote to self-doubt. The recipients come here in the knowledge that it is other workers in their art who have commended them. No commendation quite substitutes for the commendation of the respected practitioner. That laying on of hands marks the soul for the better and marks the memory forever.
Seamus Heaney
Speaker, Whiting Writers’ Awards, 1998