We are honored and overjoyed to announce that
@MeghaMaj
is a 2022 Whiting Award winner in fiction! Her stunning novel, A BURNING (
@AAKnopf
, 2020), is available to order:
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant! Learn more about their awe-inspiring and essential forthcoming books and read excerpts from their work on our website:
We are honored and overjoyed to announce that
@alexispauline
is a 2022 Whiting Award winner in nonfiction! Her phenomenal nonfiction book, UNDROWNED: BLACK FEMINIST LESSONS FROM MARINE MAMMALS (
@AKPressDistro
, 2020), is available to order:
Applications for the Creative Nonfiction Grant are open today!
Are you currently completing an under-contract book-length work of deeply researched and creatively composed nonfiction for a general readership?
Learn more and apply .
We are honored and overjoyed to announce that
@23cschwartz
is a 2022 Whiting Award winner in poetry! Her astounding book of poetry, CIVIL SERVICE (
@GraywolfPress
, 2022), is available to pre-order:
Black writers have been doing the bold & dangerous work of confronting racism since before this country began. These books speak to our moment - & our future - with beauty, ferocity & compassion. Comment with a title below by 12pm Fri, & we will give away 50 to random respondents
Congratulations to
@drashleyfarmer
, recipient of a 2021 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for her book QUEEN MOTHER AUDLEY MOORE! Read more about her work here:
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2021 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant! Learn more about their artful and essential forthcoming books and read excerpts from their work on our website:
Applications are now open for the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant! We welcome applications for works of history, cultural reportage, biography, memoir, the sciences, and more. Find out more and apply here by April 26, 2021:
A very good reason to be excited for 2018: the anthology NEW POETS OF NATIVE NATIONS, from
@GraywolfPress
&
@HeidErdrich
, celebrating 21 Native poets first published in the twenty-first century.
"On the surface, Wilson appears all rainbow-bright fun. In truth, she's a shiv in a sequined pouch, a fairyland princess who can dunk." For
@espnW
, Whiting winner
@AllisonGlock
profiles A'ja Wilson, the best college basketball player in the country.
Congratulations to
@nplusonemag
, winner of a 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize! Our judges said that n+1 is “both magnet and catapult for intellectually fearless writers.” Subscribe here:
“Every poem is full of really short little things that can live with you forever" - Tracy K. Smith,
@PulitzerPrize
-winner and U.S. Poet Laureate, via
@AspenInstitute
.
We announce the 2020 Whiting Awards winners this Wednesday 3/25 at 7pm ET on Twitter and FB! We can't wait to share their names with you, and share their brilliant work via
@parisreview
. We hope you'll celebrate with us by sharing the news far and wide!
"A Public Space stands as a paradigm of what literary magazines can be: a gorgeously curated collection we experience as a cabinet of wonders."
Congratulations to 2018 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize winner
@APublicSpace
!
We are honored and overjoyed to announce that
@anthony_cody
is a 2022 Whiting Award winner in poetry! His brilliant book of poetry, BORDERLAND APOCRYPHA (
@Omnidawn
, 2020), is available to order:
Whiting grantee
@guernicamag
is launching a new fellowship for virtual poetry mentorship and community for those without MFAs or books! The short-answer application (rolling basis through January) is available here:
Congratulations to
@brandonshimoda
, recipient of a 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for his book JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORICAL PLAZA! Read more about his work here:
Speculative fiction writers -- from now until 8/31 you can submit a short story for LeVar Burton to read on his podcast! More into here via
@fiyahlitmag
:
We're now accepting applications for the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and this year we've removed our restriction that projects be under contract for 2 years! Find out more and apply here by April 22:
Whiting winner Li-Young Lee is judging the
@POETSorg
2019 Walt Whitman Award! Winner receives $5,000 and publication by the dreamy
@GraywolfPress
. Submissions open Sep 1 - more info here:
We are honored and overjoyed to announce that
@RitaBullwinkel
is a 2022 Whiting Award winner in fiction! Her wonderful short story collection, BELLY UP (
@AStrangeObject
, 2016), is available to order:
"Writing is an inherently lonely activity. It requires you to be still and present and porous to whatever it is you want to say." -
@AriaAber
, via
@The_Rumpus
Whiting winner
@jerichobrown
's THE TRADITION has been selected as One Book One Philadelphia's annual citywide read (the first book of poetry in its 19 years!):
We're excited to announce the 2020 Whiting Award winners as scheduled 7pmET 3/25, but due to health concerns in NYC, we're cancelling this year's in-person ceremony & reading. While we won't be holding public events, we hope you'll join us in celebrating these tremendous talents.
If you're a writer experiencing financial difficulties due to the COVID-19 crisis, apply NOW for a $5,000 unrestricted grant from Artist Relief. More info on how to apply (and donate!) here:
To celebrate the 2020 Whiting Awards, we're giving a book by each grantee to one lucky winner! Books will be ordered from our friends at
@bookculture
(see their list of Whiting reads here: ). To enter, just retweet. We'll announce the winner Friday PM!
Congrats to
@alexanderchee
, a writer who "exemplifies gallant hard work," on being named
@onestorymag
's Mentor of the Year! An incredibly deserved honor.
Applications for the 2024 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant are now open! Writers with books under contract in Canada, the UK, and the US are eligible to apply. Up to ten winners will receive $40,000 each.
Find out more here:
On
@Poetry_Daily
, Whiting winner
@ilya_poet
writes passionately about I AM A ROHINGYA, a collection of work by the Rohingya people, who live in the oldest and largest ongoing refugee camp in the world:
"His poems are never just rage, never just fear, never just joy or whimsy or lust. Instead, Kaminsky’s lines are fraught with the full, messy truth of humanity." On Whiting winner
@ilya_poet
's DEAF REPUBLIC:
Are you a writer considering PPP, Unemployment, and other relief grants during the pandemic? We're hosting a FREE webinar about aid available to freelancers and self-employed writers, this Friday 4/24 at 2pm EST. We hope you'll join us. Registration here:
"Years before I found the words to say I was a queer person, I had authored pages of poems that helped me to survive" - Whiting winner Jenny Johnson, via
@LitHub
.
"When someone manages to rise up through our hobbled alleged meritocracy and is crowned the first to hold a position, I know that does not mean that they were the only one who possibly could." Whiting winner
@surlybassey
on a cultural fixation with firsts:
"To a generation of queer writers, Alexander Chee is a beacon, measuring stick, and fairy godmother." In
@them
,
@brandonlgtaylor
on Chee's new essay collection and the importance of reading about a queer writer seeing and finding himself.
Applications for the 2024 Granum Prizes open May 1! A $5K Prize will be awarded to a writer to support the completion of a poetry, fiction, or nonfiction manuscript. A $1,500+ Translation Prize will be awarded to support a work of translation. More info:
"This book is a radical act of love, and one I simply cannot recommend enough." Sabrina Imbler on UNDROWNED by Whiting winner
@alexispauline
, via
@lithub
:
Congratulations to
@lareviewofbooks
, winner of a 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize! Our judges said that the magazine “shows deep commitment to history, critical thought, and imagination.” Subscribe here: