This year’s Whiting Awards, worth $50,000 each, for “writers of exceptional talent and promise in early career,” have gone to: Mischa Berlinski, fictionRick Hilles, poetryDonovan Hohn, nonfictionDouglas Kearney, poetryLaleh Khadivi, fictionManuel Munoz, fictionDael Orlandersmith, playsBenjamin Percy, fictionJulie Sheehan, poetryLysley Tenorio, fiction