Last year, Jennifer duBois» debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was met with widespread acclaim — and she's just won a 2013
Whiting Writers Award.
The recipient of
a Whiting Writers Award, Ms. McDermott is currently writer - in - residence at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Not exact matches
He received a 2009
Whiting Writers»
Award from the Mrs. Giles
Whiting Foundation, the 2004 Lawrence Foundation Prize from the Michigan Quarterly Review, and the 2003 Short - Story
Award for New
Writers from Glimmer Train Stories.
Writer / director Justin Simien's first film «Dear
White People» debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, where it received the festival's Special Jury
Award for Breakthrough Talent.
Director and
writer Michael Haneke («The
White Ribbon», «The Piano Teacher») also won the Palme d'Or
award on its release at the Cannes Film Festival but, most recently, the movie bagged the Best Foreign Language Film
award at the Golden Globes in January 2013.
Josh Mond
Writer / director Josh Mond's directorial debut, James
White, which he also wrote, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the NEXT Audience
Award.
Breaking Clean was
awarded a 1997 PEN / Jerard Fund
Award for a work in progress, as well as a 2001
Whiting Writers»
Award.
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Kim Edwards is the author of a short story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN / Hemingway
Award, and has won both a
Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren
Award, and is a graduate of the Iowa
Writers» Workshop.
A winner of the
Whiting Writer's
Award and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Kantner is a Recipient of the
Whiting Writers»
Award in 2005 for fiction.
In this
award - winning memoir in verse, Woodson shares her very personal story of becoming a
writer and what it was like to grow up African American in a
white majority world, with roots in the South but formative years in the urban Northeast.
An associate professor of English at Lehigh University, Watts has won numerous
awards, including a
Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Ernest J. Gaines
Award for Literary Excellence and the Southern Women's
Writers Award for Emerging
Writer of the Year.
Jennifer duBois is the recipient of a 2013
Whiting Writer's
Award and a 2012 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 a
Award and a 2012 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
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Johnson has received a
Whiting Writers»
Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Swarthout Writing
Award, a Kingsbury Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship.
The James
White Award is an annual short story competition open to non-professional
writers with the winner chosen by a panel of judges made up of professional authors and editors.
Since 1985, the
Whiting Awards have been given annually to 10 emerging
writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
Congratulations to all the winners of the
Whiting Writers»
Awards, which took place this Monday!
She has won numerous
awards including a National Book
Award, Newbery Honor, Toronto Dominion Award, International White Raven, Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year, short - listed for Germany's most prestigious literature award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe Award for her body of work, and many ot
Award, Newbery Honor, Toronto Dominion
Award, International White Raven, Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year, short - listed for Germany's most prestigious literature award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe Award for her body of work, and many ot
Award, International
White Raven, Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year, short - listed for Germany's most prestigious literature
award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe Award for her body of work, and many ot
award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the
Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe
Award for her body of work, and many ot
Award for her body of work, and many others.
We support writing through the
Whiting Award for emerging
writers, Creative Nonfiction Grant, and Literary Magazine Prize
Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with such distinctions as the National Book Critics Circle
Award, the PEN / Martha Albrand
Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a
Whiting Writers»
Award, a Lila Wallace — Reader's Digest
Writers»
Award, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Hayes's honors include a
Whiting Writers»
Award and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation.