The 2020 Whiting Award winners were announced online Wednesday evening. The ten winners of the $50,000 prize are:
Fiction
Andrea Lawlor (Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Knopf)
Ling Ma (Severance, Farrar, Straus)
Genevieve Sly Crane (Sorority, Scout Press)
Nonfiction
Jaquira Díaz (Ordinary Girls, Algonquin)
Jia Tolentino (Trick Mirror, Random House)
Poetry
Aria Aber (Hard Damage, University of Nebraska Press)
Diannely Antigua (Ugly Music, Yesyes books)
Jake Skeets (Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Milkweed Editions)
Genya Turovskaya (The Breathing Body of This Thought, Black Square Editions)
Drama
Will Arbery (Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Plano, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, and Wheelchair)