Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Seth Kantner	Fiction	2005
Joan Naviyuk Kane	Poetry	2009
Ilya Kaminsky	Poetry	2005
Agymah Kamau	Fiction	2003
Cynthia Kadohata	Fiction	1991
Hansol Jung	Drama	2018
Rajiv Joseph	Drama	2009
Dan Josefson	Fiction	2015
A. Van Jordan	Poetry	2004
R.S. Jones	Fiction	1992
R. Kikuo Johnson	Fiction	2023
Adam Johnson	Fiction	2009
Taylor Johnson	Poetry	2024
Jenny Johnson	Poetry	2015
Sarah Stewart Johnson	Nonfiction	2021
Denis Johnson	Fiction	1986
Tyehimba Jess	Poetry	2006
Mitchell S. Jackson	Fiction	2016
Major Jackson	Poetry	2003
Michael R. Jackson	Drama	2019
James Ijames	Drama	2017
Naomi Iizuka	Drama	1999
Ishion Hutchinson	Poetry	2013
Samuel Hunter	Drama	2012
Michelle Huneven	Fiction	2002
Jay Hopler	Poetry	2009
Mary Hood	Fiction	1994
John Holman	Fiction	1991
Donovan Hohn	Nonfiction	2008
Eva Hoffman	Nonfiction	1992
Lucas Hnath	Drama	2015
Rick Hilles	Poetry	2008
Emily Hiestand	Poetry	1990
Amy Herzog	Drama	2011
Marwa Helal	Poetry	2021

Selected winners

Denis Johnson 1986

Angels: A Novel

In the Oakland Greyhound all the people were dwarfs, and they pushed and shoved to get on the bus, even cutting in ahead of the two nuns, who were there first. The two nuns...

Gothataone Moeng 2024

Call and Response: Stories

Whatever group of friends I told, what always fascinated people was not the boy’s dying but this image, this juxtaposition of school and cemetery, side by side, and a hill...

Safiya Sinclair 2016

Cannibal: Poems

In this wet season my gone mother

climbs back again

and everything here smells gutted—

bloodtide, sea grapes in thick bloom,

our...

Amy Leach 2010

Things That Are: Essays

In the seventeenth century, his Holiness the Pope adjudged beavers to be fish. In retrospect, that was a zoologically illogical decision; but beavers were not miffed at being...

Shane McCrae 2011

Mule: Poems

And we divorced in the survives and O

It was a comedy and first you ever slept with me

And marry me and marry me and O

How...

Kate Wheeler 1994

Not Where I Started From: Stories

A week into our affair, Severo Marquez told me he had shot his own dog. He’d already told me about his crazy female cousin who locked herself into the bathroom every Sunday and...