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Whiting Award Winners

March 21, 2018
By Erin Somers

The Whiting Awards were announced in a ceremony Wednesday evening. The ten winners of the $50,000 prize are:

Fiction
Patty Yumi Cottrell (Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, McSweeney’s)
Brontez Purnell (Since I Laid My Burden Down, Amethyst Editions)
Weike Wang (Chemistry, Knopf)

Nonfiction
Esmé Weijun Wang (The Collected Schizophrenias, forthcoming from Graywolf Press)
Anne Boyer (Garments Against Women, Ahsahta Press)

Poetry
Rickey Laurentiis (Boy with Thorn, University of Pittsburgh Press)
Tommy Pico (Nature Poem, Tin House Books)

Playwrights
Nathan Alan Davis (Nat Turner in Jerusalem; Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea)
Hansol Jung (Among the Dead, Cardboard Piano)
Antoinette Nwandu (Pass Over, Breach)

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