whiting

The ten winners of the 2017 Whiting Awards have been announced.

Founded in 1985, the Whiting Awards are presented annually to ten promising writers in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and drama. The prizes, sponsored by the Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation, come with a total of $50,000 shared among the winners.

Their selection process is exclusive: writers cannot apply nor can unsolicited nominations be accepted. The Foundation chooses yearly a committee of editors, writers and scholars who make the nominations and then choose the honorees.

Here are the 2017 winners and their categories.

  • Clare Barron, drama.
  • Jen Beagin, fiction.
  • Francisco Cantú, nonfiction.
  • Clarence Coo, drama.
  • Kaitlyn Greenidge, fiction.
  • Lisa Halliday, fiction.
  • James Ijames, drama.
  • Tony Tulathimutte, fiction.
  • Simone White, poetry.
  • Phillip B. Williams, poetry.

Congratulations to them all.

Find out more in The Paris Review.

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