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Whiting Writers Awards
Whiting Writers' Awards - Ten new writers have each been awarded honors as winners of the 18th annual (year 2002) Whiting Writers' Awards for "exceptional talent and promise." Each emerging writer received $35,000.
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, past and future, are hidden in the judges choices. The award is given in the categories of: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, playwright.
The 2002 Whiting Writers Awards Winners recognized this year for their outstanding talent and promise are:
Jeffrey Renard Allen, fiction writer and poet. Mr. Allen is the author of Rails Under My Back | Hardcover | Paperback
Elizabeth Arnold, poet. She is the author of The Reef | Hardcover | Paperback
Justin Cronin, fiction writer. His debut work, Mary and O'Neil Hardcover | Paperback won a PEN/Hemingway award
Kim Edwards, fiction writer, The Secrets of a Fire King | Hardcover | Paperback
David Gewanter, poet, author of the collection of poetry, In the Belly | Hardcover | Paperback
Melissa James Gibson, playwright. Her plays include Given Fish, winner of a 2001 Obie Award
Michelle Huneven, fiction writer, Round Rock | Hardcover | Paperback | books on tape
Danzy Senna, fiction writer Caucasia | Hardcover | Paperback
Evan Smith, playwright. The Uneasy Chair and Psych
Joshua Weiner, poet. The World's Room | Hardcover | Paperback
Whiting
Writers' Awards candidates are proposed by nominators from across the
country whose experience and vocations bring them in contact with individuals of
extraordinary talent. Winners are chosen by a selection committee
consisting of a small anonymous group of recognized writers, literary scholars,
and editors, appointed annually by the Foundation. At four meetings over
the course of the year, the selectors discuss the candidates' work and gradually
winnow the list. They then recommend up to ten candidates for awards to
the Foundation's Trustees. The Foundation does
not accept applications or unsolicited nominations.
The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation was established in 1963 by Flora E.
Whiting. In 1972, her unrestricted bequest of over $10 million enabled the
Foundation to establish the Whiting Fellowships in the Humanities for doctoral
candidates in their dissertation year. In the years since, the Foundation
has annually awarded grants to Bryn Mawr, University of Chicago, Columbia,
Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale to fund these Fellowships, the recipients
of which are selected by each institution. The Foundation created the
Whiting Writers' Awards in 1985 under the direction of Gerald
Freund, who organized and led the program until his death in 1997
Whiting Writers Awards Winners
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