Since 1985, the Foundation has supported creative writing through the Whiting Awards, which are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
The most unsettling of lullabies, Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s verse memoir unfolds with savage grace as it lays...
The poems of Tyree Daye are haunted and haunting; they make new a familiar human loss and longing. Daye’s...
Hernan Diaz explores two kinds of wilderness: the immensely taxing newness of the American West and the...
Deftly attuned to pop culture and to the language of the twenty-first century, Michael R. Jackson fashions...
Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries is one of the most important memoirs of the last five years...
Ghanaian and American-Armenian by birth, Nadia Owusu’s childhood travels inform her gaze and language in...
From the start of Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s first story, readers know they are in the hands of a bold new...
Merritt Tierce’s novel Love Me Back is marked by extraordinary daring and restraint, boldly...
The poems of Vanessa Angélica Villarreal transport readers into a wilderness, a porous border world of...
The plays of Lauren Yee send history careening into the personal. Her dialogue feels like overheard speech...
