Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Mark Turpin	Poetry	1997
Samrat Upadhyay	Fiction	2001
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi	Fiction	2015
A.J. Verdelle	Fiction	1996
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal	Poetry	2019
William T. Vollmann	Fiction	1988
Ocean Vuong	Poetry	2016
D.J. Waldie	Nonfiction	1998
David Foster Wallace	Fiction	1987
Anthony Walton	Nonfiction	1998
Esmé Weijun Wang	Nonfiction	2018
Weike Wang	Fiction	2018
Anne Washburn	Drama	2015
Teddy Wayne	Fiction	2011
Charles Harper Webb	Poetry	1998
Kerri Webster	Poetry	2011
Joshua Weiner	Poetry	2002
Timberlake Wertenbaker	Drama	1989
Kate Wheeler	Fiction	1994
Simone White	Poetry	2017
Colson Whitehead	Fiction	2000
Marianne Wiggins	Fiction	1989
Amy Wilentz	Nonfiction	1990
Damien Wilkins	Fiction	1992
Claude Wilkinson	Poetry	2000
Phillip B. Williams	Poetry	2017
Greg Williamson	Poetry	1998
August Wilson	Drama	1986
Tracey Scott Wilson	Drama	2004
Milo Wippermann	Poetry	2023
Tobias Wolff	Fiction, Nonfiction	1989
John Wray	Fiction	2001
Austin Wright	Fiction, Nonfiction	1985
Franz Wright	Poetry	1991
Stephen Wright	Fiction	1990

Selected winners

Daniel Hall 1998

Strange Relation: Poems

He sent this key from Florida.

I think. A key to what?

I tried the car, the trucks,

tried every door – nothing fit.

My wife thought it was his idea...

Simone White 2017

Of Being Dispersed: Poems

Who can give an account of occasions

Can mechanized description so falter

Can move toward gesture to scissor the outline

Cate Marvin 2007

Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems

When I say my wives are cages, I don’t mean I’m a bird.

Collapsible shelves, they hide their usefulness when not

in use. All my wives contain terrariums: terrible...

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi 2015

Fra Keeler: A Novel

When I bent down to stack the papers, I thought the sensation I had had in my brain earlier was the...

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...

Stephen Wright 1990

M31: A Family Romance

“There is an ocean of dreams,” Maryse was explaining, “that our sleeping heads dip back into late at night. The tides go in and out, cleansing the shore. Who we are is whatever...