Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Lydia Davis	Fiction	1988
Bruce Duffy	Fiction	1988
Gerald Early	Nonfiction	1988
Jonathan Franzen	Fiction	1988
Mary LaChapelle	Fiction	1988
Ellen Akins	Fiction	1989
Russell Edson	Poetry	1989
Ian Frazier	Nonfiction	1989
Mary Karr	Poetry	1989
Natalie Kusz	Nonfiction	1989
Lucy Sante	Nonfiction	1989
Timberlake Wertenbaker	Drama	1989
Marianne Wiggins	Fiction	1989
Tobias Wolff	Fiction, Nonfiction	1989
C.D. Wright	Poetry	1989
Emily Hiestand	Poetry	1990
Tony Kushner	Drama	1990
Yannick Murphy	Fiction	1990
Lawrence Naumoff	Fiction	1990
Dennis Nurkse	Poetry	1990
Mark Richard	Fiction	1990
Harriet Ritvo	Nonfiction	1990
Christopher Tilghman	Fiction	1990
Amy Wilentz	Nonfiction	1990
Stephen Wright	Fiction	1990
Cynthia Kadohata	Fiction	1991
Scott McPherson	Drama	1991
Thylias Moss	Poetry	1991
Rick Rofihe	Fiction	1991
Anton Shammas	Fiction, Nonfiction	1991
Franz Wright	Poetry	1991
Stanley Crouch	Nonfiction	1991
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein	Fiction	1991
Allegra Goodman	Fiction	1991
John Holman	Fiction	1991

Selected winners

Emily Hiestand 1990

Green the Witch-Hazel Wood: Poems

The pond is like a mackerel skin tonight,

the mackerel like a beaded evening bag.

This is like that, that is like this, oh,

let's call the whole thing off...

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...

Claire Schwartz 2022

Civil Service: Poems

In his office in the attic, in his favorite khaki pants,

the Archivist carefully sets down the...

A. Van Jordan 2004

Rise: Poems

His music swims in the room’s colors,

Not making the décor any prettier,

In its war of blood and tar;

His bleak tone blare into blackness

...

Claude Wilkinson 2000

Reading the Earth: Poems

A bobwhite sounds through larks

and jays, the wringing-wet shade,

as in the first world, before Adam

understood their sharp iambs,

when the refrain...

Dennis Nurkse 1990

Staggered Lights: Poems

A man and a woman

are lying together

listening to news of a war.

The radio dial

is the only light in the room.

Casualties are read out.

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