Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Raymond Abbott	Fiction	1985
Douglas Crase	Poetry	1985
Stuart Dybek	Fiction	1985
Jorie Graham	Poetry	1985
Linda Gregg	Poetry	1985
Wright Morris	Fiction, Nonfiction	1985
Howard Norman	Fiction	1985
James Robison	Fiction	1985
James Schuyler	Poetry	1985
Austin Wright	Fiction, Nonfiction	1985
John Ash	Poetry	1986
Hayden Carruth	Poetry	1986
Kent Haruf	Fiction	1986
Denis Johnson	Fiction	1986
Darryl Pinckney	Fiction, Nonfiction	1986
Padgett Powell	Fiction	1986
Mona Simpson	Fiction	1986
Frank Stewart	Poetry	1986
Ruth Stone	Poetry	1986
August Wilson	Drama	1986
Gretel Ehrlich	Nonfiction	1987
Deborah Eisenberg	Fiction	1987
Alice McDermott	Fiction	1987
Reinaldo Povod	Drama	1987
Michael Ryan	Poetry	1987
David Foster Wallace	Fiction	1987
Mindy Aloff	Nonfiction	1987
Joan Chase	Fiction	1987
Mark Cox	Poetry	1987
Pam Durban	Fiction	1987
Michael Burkard	Poetry	1988
Lydia Davis	Fiction	1988
Bruce Duffy	Fiction	1988
Gerald Early	Nonfiction	1988
Jonathan Franzen	Fiction	1988

Selected winners

Joan Chase 1987

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia: A Novel

For as long as we could remember we had been together in the house which established the center of the known world. When we were younger we woke in the mornings while it was...

Andrea Lawlor 2020

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl: A Novel

The game consisted of a single question: If you had to fall in love with (by which Paul meant have sex with) one person in this elevator, who would it be? He played the...

Rick Rofihe 1991

Father Must: Stories

I like a crusty bread. Last spring, when the man who sold my son the satellite dish told him that the signal wasn’t coming in good because of the big old elm tree across the...

Stanley Crouch 1991

Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989

Breaker, trick rider, picador, and the heavyweight ring’s fastest jockey, Ali has made ring time canter and canter, bow, leap over giant bushes, and move so much in his own...

Sherwin Bitsui 2006

Shapeshift: Poems

Turn signals blink through ice in the skin.

Snake dreams uncoil,

burrow into the spine of books.

Night spills from cracked eggs....

Ishion Hutchinson 2013

Far District: Poems

I know snow as soap opera, the comedy
of white heap shovelled into strophe
and anti-strophe for long blocks – snow
as envy, a shaken blanket making a lasting...