Read a poem by Phillip B. Williams, winner of a 2017 Whiting Award for poetry.

Read an excerpt from ‘Beautiful Province (Belle Province),’ a play by Clarence Coo, winner of a 2017 Whiting Award.

Read an excerpt from ‘Private Citizens’ by Tony Tulathimutte, winner of a 2017 Whiting Award for fiction.

Read an excerpt from ‘The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington’ by James Ijames, winner of a 2017 Whiting Award for drama.

Read an excerpt from ‘The Line Becomes a River’ by Francisco Cantú, winner of a 2017 Whiting Award for nonfiction.

Read an excerpt from ‘Pretend I’m Dead’ by Jen Beagin, winner of a 2017 Whiting Award for fiction.

  Clare Barron is a playwright and actor from Wenatchee, Washington. Her plays have been produced by Page 73, Woolly Mammoth, Clubbed Thumb, and The Bushwick Starr, and will appear at Playwrights Horizons and Steppenwolf in 2018. She is the recipi…

Read an excerpt from ‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman’ by Kaitlyn Greenidge, winner of a 2017 Whiting Award for fiction.

Read an excerpt from ‘Asymmetry’ by Lisa Halliday, winner of a 2017 Whiting Award for fiction.

Read an excerpt from ‘Lotion’ by Simone White, winner of a 2017 Whiting Award for poetry.

Mitchell S. Jackson’s debut novel, The Residue Years (2013), was praised by publications including the New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Times (London). The novel won the Ernest Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the …

J. D. Daniels studied at the University of Louisville and Boston University. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, AGNI, n+1, Oxford American, The Best American Essays, and elsewhere. Daniels is the recipient of The Paris Review’s 2013 Terr…

Ocean Vuong holds a B.A. from Brooklyn College and will complete an M.F.A. from NYU in 2016. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The American Poetry Revi…

Layli Long Soldier holds a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an M.F.A. from Bard College. She has served as a contributing editor of Drunken Boat. Her poems have appeared in The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Revie…

Catherine Lacey has published work in Oxford American, McSweeney’s Quarterly, the New York Times, Vice, AFAR, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, a recipient of a New York Foundation for th…

Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Her debut collection, Cannibal, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry for 2015, and will be published this year. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, The Kenyon Review…

Alice Sola Kim’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Tin House, Lenny Letter, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons, among other publications. Kim has been a MacDowell…

Madeleine George’s plays have been produced at Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Shotgun Players, and Perseverance Theater, among other venues. She has been the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, the Outer…

A writer, vocalist, and sound artist, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of TwERK (2013), a collection of poems, songs, and myths and is the cofounder and coeditor of Coon Bidness and SO4. Her work has appeared in many publications, including Ratt…

Brian Blanchfield, a poet and essayist, is the author of three books, including two collections of poetry: Not Even Then (2004) and A Several World (2014), which received the 2014 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and was long-l…

Last March, we announced the ten winners of this year’s Whiting Awards, given annually to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, based on early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come. Now we’ve asked eleven Whiting wi…