Search All Winners

Name Sort descending Genre Year
Keith Reddin Drama 1992
Spencer Reece Poetry 2005
Roger Reeves Poetry 2015
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Nonfiction 2012
Mark Richard Fiction 1990
Atsuro Riley Poetry 2012
Harriet Ritvo Nonfiction 1990
José Rivera Drama 1992
Lewis Robinson Fiction 2003
James Robison Fiction 1985
Rick Rofihe Fiction 1991
Brittany Rogers Poetry 2026
Alison C. Rollins Poetry 2026
Carlo Rotella Nonfiction 2007
Jess Row Fiction 2003
Mary Ruefle Poetry 1995
Sarah Ruhl Drama 2003
Michael Ryan Poetry 1987
Russ Rymer Nonfiction 1995
Lucy Sante Nonfiction 1989
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Nonfiction 2010
James Schuyler Poetry 1985
Claire Schwartz Poetry 2022
Salvatore Scibona Fiction 2009
Danzy Senna Fiction 2002
Anton Shammas Fiction 1991
Anton Shammas Nonfiction 1991
Charif Shanahan Poetry 2024
Akhil Sharma Fiction 2001
Lisa Shea Fiction 1993
Julie Sheehan Poetry 2008
Mona Simpson Fiction 1986
Safiya Sinclair Poetry 2016
Jake Skeets Poetry 2020
Aisha Sabatini Sloan Nonfiction 2025

Selected winners

Clarence Coo
2017
Beautiful Province (Belle Province)
A Play

MR. GREEN: Two verbs! Granted, they are irregular. But that’s no excuse, for these forms —

 

Do. Not. Change.

 

They are immutable!

 

More reliable than the people in your lives. More stable than governments. More dependable than churches or philosophies. These verbs are your deliverance!

 

Commit these patterns to memory. Determine the person, the number, the tense. Then remember the form. That’s all there is. To conjugation.

 

Conjugation. Such a beautiful word. Such a beautiful act. 

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Dagoberto Gilb
1993
The Magic of Blood
Stories

You will begin to listen to the story of Josie’s life in Spanish and English. You will begin to like the way she looks. At moments you will confuse her with the stripper dancing naked on the table next to where the two of you talk. Josie will be telling you about her marriage, about her husband, about her divorce, about her daughter, about her sadness and disappointment. You will have more drinks than her.

 

“Recipe” from THE MAGIC OF BLOOD by Dagoberto Gilb © 1993 by the University of New Mexico Press; reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Grove Atlantic, Inc. “Recipe” originally appeared in Winners on the Pass Line (Cinco Puntos Press).

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Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
2012
Harlem Is Nowhere
A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

In this dream Harlem, the avenues are even wider and more grand. I visit elegant lounges that have mahogany fittings and floor-to-ceiling windows that open onto the avenue—striped silk curtains billow in the breeze. In that dream Harlem, that nowhere Harlem, I reach the campus of City College by ascending the face of a ragged cliff many times more treacherous than the steps of St. Nicholas Park. In these settings unfold various plots of which I am not quite the author.

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Genya Turovskaya
2020
The Breathing Body of This Thought

but we are still at sea     we climbed into the rocking

boat again     the things that we could not afford

to remember in the vernacular      

 

                                                                       sun

                                                            sinking backwards into the world’s

                                                            light industry    Eros in idle hands

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Elena Passarello
2015
Let Me Clear My Throat
Essays

By the time he was infamous enough to sell out bullfighting arenas, the Caruso C was a sort of burlesque number.  He would inch to it from the frequencies below, nearly embrace the note, and then flat a bit before trumpeting, C! with full tenor fury. Toscanini chided him for grandstanding, but this in-and-out tease worked well with German and Latin American houses, which particularly enjoyed the punishment of a loud flirtation.

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