Last evening, the Whiting Foundation announced the winners of their 2016 Awards, prizes given annually to ten writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, including $50,000 grants for each recipient.
Previous honorees include David Foster Wallace, Colson Whitehead, Tracy K. Smith, Lydia Davis, Denis Johnson, Mary Karr, Alice McDermott, Ben Fountain, and Jonathan Franzen. Learn more about the Whiting Awards on their website.
Here are this year's winners, along with selections of their work:
- Brian Blanchfield, Nonfiction: Proxies: Essays Near Knowing
- J. D. Daniels, Nonfiction: The Correspondence (to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2017)
- LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Poetry: TwERK
- Madeleine George, Drama: The (Curious Case of The) Watson Intelligence
- Mitchell S. Jackson, Fiction: The Residue Years
- Alice Sola Kim, Fiction: Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales
- Catherine Lacey, Fiction: Nobody Is Ever Missing
- Safiya Sinclair, Poetry: Catacombs
- Layli Long Soldier, Poetry: The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review Online, and others
- Ocean Vuong, Poetry: Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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