Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Suzannah Lessard	Nonfiction	1995
Reginald McKnight	Fiction	1995
James McMichael	Poetry	1995
Mary Ruefle	Poetry	1995
Russ Rymer	Nonfiction	1995
Molly Gloss	Fiction	1996
Brigit Pegeen Kelly	Poetry	1996
Brian Kiteley	Fiction	1996
Chris Offutt	Fiction, Nonfiction	1996
Elizabeth Spires	Poetry	1996
Patricia Storace	Nonfiction, Poetry	1996
Judy Troy	Fiction	1996
A.J. Verdelle	Fiction	1996
Anderson Ferrell	Fiction	1996
Cristina García	Fiction	1996
Jo Ann Beard	Nonfiction	1997
Connie Deanovich	Poetry	1997
Erik Ehn	Drama	1997
Forrest Gander	Poetry	1997
Jody Gladding	Poetry	1997
Suketu Mehta	Fiction, Nonfiction	1997
Ellen Meloy	Nonfiction	1997
Josip Novakovich	Fiction, Nonfiction	1997
Melanie Rae Thon	Fiction	1997
Mark Turpin	Poetry	1997
D.J. Waldie	Nonfiction	1998
Anthony Walton	Nonfiction	1998
Charles Harper Webb	Poetry	1998
Greg Williamson	Poetry	1998
Michael Byers	Fiction	1998
Nancy Eimers	Poetry	1998
Daniel Hall	Poetry	1998
W. David Hancock	Drama	1998
James Kimbrell	Poetry	1998
Ralph Lombreglia	Fiction, Nonfiction	1998

Selected winners

Steven Dunn 2021

Potted Meat: A Novel

HOME IS WHERE

I peek from the slit
between my forearms.
Them. They come.
Eyes in all the heads glow.
The flow
melts my arm flesh
...

Jane Mead 1992

The Lord and the General Din of the World: Poems

There is a strange world

in the changing of a light bulb,

the waxing of a bookshelf

I think I could grow by,

as into a dusty dream

in which...

John Keene 2005

Annotations: A Novel

Daddy was often eager to play catch, since he felt society expected this from a loving, caring father. A confidence that soared and a glovehand that fell, still there was no...

Elif Batuman 2010

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

“The American girl will judge the leg contest!” they announced. I was still hoping that I had misunderstood them, even as German techno music was turned on and all the boys in...

Brian Kiteley 1996

I Know Many Songs, But I Cannot Sing: A Novel

Some of the subjects covered during Gamal’s hour of talk: the great friendship they will have; the difficulty Gamal has accepting Ib’s name—he prefers to call him Ibrahim; the...

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...