Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Martha Zweig	Poetry	1999
Ada Zhang	Fiction	2024
Javier Zamora	Nonfiction	2024
Lauren Yee	Drama	2019
Franz Wright	Poetry	1991
Stephen Wright	Fiction	1990
C.D. Wright	Poetry	1989
Austin Wright	Fiction, Nonfiction	1985
John Wray	Fiction	2001
Tobias Wolff	Fiction, Nonfiction	1989
Milo Wippermann	Poetry	2023
Tracey Scott Wilson	Drama	2004
August Wilson	Drama	1986
Greg Williamson	Poetry	1998
Phillip B. Williams	Poetry	2017
Claude Wilkinson	Poetry	2000
Damien Wilkins	Fiction	1992
Amy Wilentz	Nonfiction	1990
Marianne Wiggins	Fiction	1989
Colson Whitehead	Fiction	2000
Simone White	Poetry	2017
Kate Wheeler	Fiction	1994
Timberlake Wertenbaker	Drama	1989
Joshua Weiner	Poetry	2002
Kerri Webster	Poetry	2011
Charles Harper Webb	Poetry	1998
Teddy Wayne	Fiction	2011
Anne Washburn	Drama	2015
Esmé Weijun Wang	Nonfiction	2018
Weike Wang	Fiction	2018
Anthony Walton	Nonfiction	1998
David Foster Wallace	Fiction	1987
D.J. Waldie	Nonfiction	1998
Ocean Vuong	Poetry	2016
William T. Vollmann	Fiction	1988

Selected winners

Julie Sheehan 2008

Orient Point: Poems

Coyotes invade. They claim to be the truth.

Black bears nose the bougainvillea, moving

eastward, indiscriminate, original.

Our sinks back up, our toilets...

Alice McDermott 1987

That Night: A Novel

It’s hard not to think of Sheryl’s mother as cruel in all this: hard not to think of her as the boys did, as the jealous queen, the wicked witch. She was the one, after all,...

Christopher Tilghman 1990

In a Father's Place: Stories

The boy’s name is Cecil Mayberry; he is twelve, white, and he knows something. He knows what his mother is going to make for supper, pot roast and green Jell-O salad; he knows...