The 2018 Whiting Award Winners

March 21, 2018

covercovercovercovercovercovercover
The ten winners of the 2018 Whiting Awards were announced tonight in a ceremony featuring a keynote by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison. Based on “early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come,” the annual Whiting Award gives $50,000 to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. This year’s recipients are:

Fiction:
Patrick Cottrell, debut author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (Read The Millions interview with Cottrell);
Brontez Purnell, author of Since I Laid My Burden Down
Weike Wang
, debut author of Chemistry

Nonfiction:
Esmé Weijun Wang
, author of the forthcoming The Collected Schizophrenias (Wang’s a Year in Reading alum)

Nonfiction/Poetry: 
Anne Boyer, author of Garments Against Women

Poetry:
Rickey Laurentiis, author of Boy with Thorn (Laurentiis’s work was featured in our literary Lent reader)
Tommy Pico, author of IRL (our review of Pico’s book-length poem)

Drama:
Nathan Alan Davis, playwright of Nat Turner in Jerusalem
Hansol Jung, playwright of  Cardboard Piano
Antoinette Nwandu, playwright of Pass Over

This is the byline used for site announcements and for articles by more than one Millions contributor.