Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Melissa James Gibson	Drama	2002
Michelle Huneven	Fiction	2002
Danzy Senna	Fiction	2002
Evan Smith	Drama	2002
Joshua Weiner	Poetry	2002
Major Jackson	Poetry	2003
Agymah Kamau	Fiction	2003
Ann Pancake	Fiction	2003
Lewis Robinson	Fiction	2003
Jess Row	Fiction	2003
Sarah Ruhl	Drama	2003
Courtney A. Brkic	Fiction	2003
Alexander Chee	Fiction	2003
Christopher Cokinos	Nonfiction	2003
Trudy Dittmar	Nonfiction	2003
Daniel Alarcón	Fiction	2004
Kirsten Bakis	Fiction	2004
Catherine Barnett	Poetry	2004
Dan Chiasson	Poetry	2004
Allison Glock	Nonfiction	2004
Elana Greenfield	Drama, Fiction	2004
A. Van Jordan	Poetry	2004
Victor LaValle	Fiction	2004
John Jeremiah Sullivan	Nonfiction	2004
Tracey Scott Wilson	Drama	2004
Spencer Reece	Poetry	2005
Tracy K. Smith	Poetry	2005
Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum	Fiction	2005
Thomas Sayers Ellis	Poetry	2005
Nell Freudenberger	Fiction	2005
Rinne Groff	Drama	2005
Ilya Kaminsky	Poetry	2005
Seth Kantner	Fiction	2005
John Keene	Fiction, Poetry	2005
Dana Levin	Poetry	2005

Selected winners

Amy Herzog 2011

4000 Miles / After the Revolution: Two Plays

VERA: Have I told you about the lesbian who tried to seduce / me?

EMMA: Yes.

VERA: She showed up at the house, saying she has suck a big,...

Melanie Rae Thon 1997

First, Body: Stories

There’s a man inside this woman, and he’s alive. But he can’t speak—she can’t speak—the face is peeled back, the skull empty, and now the cap of bone is being plastered back in...

Seth Kantner 2005

Ordinary Wolves: A Novel

I remembered the sweet powerful taste of pop. Tommy Feathers had stopped for coffee when he was hunting wolverine. He tossed a bulged red and white can on the chopping block. “...

Lydia Peelle 2010

Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories

Panther. Painter. Puma. Cougar. Mountain lion. Whatever you want to call it, by the end of October, half a dozen more people claim they have caught a glimpse of it: a pale...

José Rivera 1992

Marisol and Other Plays

ANGEL: Here’s your big chance, baby. What would you like to ask the Angel of the Lord?

MARISOL (Energized): Are you real? Are you true? Are you gonna...

J. D. Daniels 2016

The Correspondence: Essays

Gary was a big boy, ugly and pale, with a nose like a peeled potato. I’m not just saying that because my ex-wife slept with him once. We all slept around. She slept with Larry...