Search all Winners

Name Sort descending	Genre	Year
Roger Fanning	Poetry	1992
Anderson Ferrell	Fiction	1996
Emil Ferris	Fiction	2025
Kathleen Finneran	Nonfiction	2001
Sidik Fofana	Fiction	2023
Tope Folarin	Fiction	2021
Ben Fountain	Fiction	2007
Carribean Fragoza	Fiction	2023
Jonathan Franzen	Fiction	1988
Kennedy Fraser	Nonfiction	1994
Ian Frazier	Nonfiction	1989
Nell Freudenberger	Fiction	2005
Forrest Gander	Poetry	1997
Cristina García	Fiction	1996
Madeleine George	Drama	2016
David Gewanter	Poetry	2002
Melissa James Gibson	Drama	2002
Dagoberto Gilb	Fiction	1993
Samantha Gillison	Fiction	2000
Aracelis Girmay	Poetry	2015
Jody Gladding	Poetry	1997
Allison Glock	Nonfiction	2004
Molly Gloss	Fiction	1996
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein	Fiction	1991
Elisa Gonzalez	Poetry	2024
Allegra Goodman	Fiction	1991
Jorie Graham	Poetry	1985
Donnetta Lavinia Grays	Drama	2021
Lucy Grealy	Nonfiction	1995
Lucy Grealy	Poetry	1995
Elana Greenfield	Drama	2004
Elana Greenfield	Fiction	2004
Kaitlyn Greenidge	Fiction	2017
Linda Gregg	Poetry	1985
Gordon Grice	Nonfiction	1999

Selected winners

Sidik Fofana

2023

Stories from the Tenants Downstairs

This is the address to the station that be playin the news, she say. Imma write to them and they gonna do a story on us.

I’m like, Yo, Kandese, that’s a good idea.

My mama put on the news every night. I didn’t know you could send them letters.

Ain’t no news cameras comin down here, Bernita say. Cops don’t even come here.

She love rainin on parades.

Karen Hao

2026

Empire of AI

Over the years, I’ve found only one metaphor
that encapsulates the nature of what these AI
power players are: empires. During the long
era of European colonialism, empires seized
and extracted resources that were not their
own and exploited the labor of the people
they subjugated to mine, cultivate, and
refine those resources for the empire’s
enrichment. They projected racist,
dehumanizing ideas of their own superiority
and modernity to justify—and even entice the
conquered into accepting—the invasion of
sovereignty, the theft, and the subjugation.
They justified their quest for power by the
need to compete with other empires: In an
arms race, all bets are off. All this
ultimately served to entrench each empire’s
power and to drive its expansion and
progress. In the simplest terms, empires
amassed extraordinary riches across space and
time, through imposing a colonial world
order, at great expense to everyone else.

Brigit Pegeen Kelly

1996

Song

Poems

My mother

gathers gladiolas. The gladness

is fractured. As when

the globe with its thousand mirrors

cracked the light. How

it hoarded sight: all the stolen perspectives

and the show of light

they shot around us: so that

down the dark hall the ghosts danced

with us: down the dark hall

the broken angels.

Vu Tran

2009

Las Vegas Noir

Six months ago, before all this, I drove into Las Vegas on a hot August twilight. My first time in the city. From the highway, I could see the Strip in the far distance, but also a lone dark cloud above it, flushed on a bed of light, glowing alien and purplish in the sky. My tired, pulpy brain at the time, I thought it was a UFO or something and nearly hit the truck ahead of me. Fifteen minutes later, at a gas station, I was told about the beam of light from atop that pyramid casino and how you can even see the beam from space, given no clouds were in the way. My disappointment surprised me.

Stuart Dybek

1985

Childhood and Other Neighborhoods

Stories

There was an old buzka on Luther Street known as the Cat Woman, not because she kept cats but because she disposed of the neighborhood’s excess kittens. Fathers would bring them in cardboard boxes at night after the children were asleep and she would drown them in her wash machine. The wash machine was in the basement, an ancient model with a galvanized-metal tub that stood on legs and had a wringer. A thick cord connected it to a socket that hung from the ceiling and when she turned it on the light bulb in the basement would flicker and water begin to pour.