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Posted on March 26, 2020 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The Whiting Foundation honors ten emerging fiction and nonfiction writers and grants each of them $50,000.
Past recipients — including Ocean Vuong, Colson Whitehead, and Tracy K. Smith — have gone on to gain considerable acclaim.
So take note of this year's winners so you can say you read them first (or, well, read them early):
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Fiction: Genevieve Sly Crane, Andrea Lawlor, and Ling Ma
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Nonfiction: Jaquira Díaz and Jia Tolentino
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Poetry: Aria Aber, Diannely Antigua, Jake Skeets, and Genya Turovskaya
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Drama: Will Arbery
Check out the Whiting Awards’ current winner page for excerpts, praise, and more about each of the honorees.
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