Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Thylias Moss	Poetry	1991
Brighde Mullins	Drama	2001
Nami Mun	Fiction	2009
Manuel Muñoz	Fiction	2008
Yannick Murphy	Fiction	1990
Yxta Maya Murray	Fiction	1999
Lawrence Naumoff	Fiction	1990
Nana Nkweti	Fiction	2022
Howard Norman	Fiction	1985
Bruce Norris	Drama	2006
Josip Novakovich	Fiction, Nonfiction	1997
Sigrid Nunez	Fiction	1993
Dennis Nurkse	Poetry	1990
Antoinette Nwandu	Drama	2018
Geoffrey O'Brien	Nonfiction	1988
Patrick O'Keeffe	Fiction	2006
Chris Offutt	Fiction, Nonfiction	1996
Dael Orlandersmith	Drama	2008
Daniel Orozco	Fiction	2011
Ladan Osman	Poetry	2021
Nadia Owusu	Nonfiction	2019
ZZ Packer	Fiction	1999
Ann Pancake	Fiction	2003
Suzan-Lori Parks	Drama	1992
Elena Passarello	Nonfiction	2015
Lydia Peelle	Fiction	2010
Janet Peery	Fiction	1993
Kathleen Peirce	Poetry	1993
Benjamin Percy	Fiction	2008
Andrew X. Pham	Nonfiction	2000
Rowan Ricardo Phillips	Poetry	2013
Xan Forest Phillips	Poetry	2021
Tommy Pico	Poetry	2018
Claudia Roth Pierpont	Nonfiction	1994
Darryl Pinckney	Fiction, Nonfiction	1986

Selected winners

Lawrence Naumoff 1990

Rootie Kazootie: A Novel

“What do I want you to do? You really want to know? I’ll tell you. Just look me in the eye and tell me one thing. Just do it. Tell me whether you and Cynthia have made love....

Jake Skeets 2020

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

We unyoke owl pellets from marrow

in desert meadow. His mouth a pigeon eye,

a torch, a womb turned flower. He, still a boy

dug from cactus skull,...

Alan Heathcock 2012

Volt: Stories

He watched the sky and thought of all the fires the world had ever seen, fires from wars, fires from bombs. So much smoke. Where has it all gone? New smoke curled beneath wisps...

Anne Boyer 2018

Garments Against Women

There are the trash eaters: there are the diamond eaters. The diamond eaters are biblical; the trash eaters only so much in that they are lepers. I am on the side of the trash...

James Robison 1985

Rumor and Other Stories

My mother supports an agency that every week or so sends her a list of the world’s political prisoners who are known to be in immediate danger of their lives. She sits over a...

Stephania Taladrid 2023

The New Yorker (October 17, 2022)

By the time the pregnant woman for whom Anna was waiting walked up, the trailhead was quiet enough to make the chirping of birds seem jarring. As Anna pulled a plastic bag of...