Congratulations to the 2021 Whiting Award Winners!
The Whiting Awards are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
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...moreThe Whiting Awards are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
...moreThe Whiting Awards are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
...moreThe 2018 Whiting Awards winners share books that have inspired them, plus a giveaway!
...moreThe Whiting Awards are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
...moreThe Whiting Foundation’s Creative Nonfiction Grant is in its second year and seeks to acknowledge the creation of exemplary works of nonfiction.
...moreThe 2017 Whiting Award winners were announced today. The award gives ten emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry a significant cash infusion ($50,000). Previous award winners include Jeffrey Eugenides, David Foster Wallace, Denis Johnson, Mary Karr, and Elif Batuman. For this edition of This Week in Essays, we are linking to work by the 2017 award winners. Congratulations […]
...moreWhat happens when writers suddenly face a windfall? Bad things. That’s why the Whiting Awards include a financial planning workshop for winners. Winners of the 2016 Whiting Awards each received $50,000. For authors who are struggling as freelancers or adjunct professors, that is a huge influx of cash. At the New York Times, Sarah Lyall catches up with […]
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