List of AWP Award winners

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The AWP Award is an annual competition for the publication of new book-length works.

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is a nonprofit organization of writers, teachers, colleges, and universities. The Donald Hall Prize for Poetry is an award of $5,000 and publication. The Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction is an award of $5,000 and publication. Winners in the novel and creative nonfiction categories receive a $2,000 cash honorarium and publication. AWP hires a staff of “screeners” who review manuscripts for the judges, who select ten manuscripts in each genre for each judge's final evaluations. [1]

YearCategoryJudgeWinnerWork
2022Poetry Naomi Shihab Nye Sahar Muradi Octobers, University of Pittsburgh Press
2022Short Fiction E.P. Tuazon Professional Lola, Red Hen Press
2022Novel Brandon Hobson Parul Kapur Hinzen Inside the Mirror, University of Nebraska Press
2022NonfictionBrian Turner Jessica Hendry Nelson Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief: A Memoir, University of Georgia Press
2021Poetry Ilya Kaminsky Paul Hlava Ceballos banana [ ], University of Pittsburgh Press
2021Short Fiction Rebecca Makkai Daphne Kalotay Vertigo and Other Stories
2021Novel Sabina Murray Elizabeth ShickThe Golden Land, New Issues Poetry & Prose
2021Nonfiction Aimee Nezhukumatathil Anne-Marie OomenAs Long as I Know You: The Mom Book, University of Georgia Press [2]
2020Poetry Claudia Rankine Tracy Fuad about:blank, University of Pittsburgh Press
2020Short FictionDr. Amina GautierJohn WeirYour Nostalgia is Killing Me, Red Hen Press
2020Novel Salvatore Scibona Christie HodgenBoy Meets Girl, New Issues Press
2020Nonfiction Alexander Chee Caroline CrewOther Girls to Burn, University of Georgia Press [3]
2019Poetry Natasha D. Trethewey Joy Priest Horsepower, University of Pittsburgh Press
2019Short Fiction Dan Chaon Cécile BarlierA Gypsy's Book of Revelation, Red Hen Press
2019Novel Bonnie Jo Campbell Robert ShusterTo Zenzi, New Issues Press
2019Nonfiction Debra Monroe Megan HarlanMobile Home: A Memoir in Essays, The University of Georgia Press [4]
2018Poetry Ross A. Gay Rebecca LehmannRinger, University of Pittsburgh Press
2018Short Fiction Kelly Link Zachary DossBoy Oh Boy, University of Massachusetts Press
2018Novel Paula McLain Ginger EagerThe Nature of Remains, New Issues Press
2018Nonfiction Dinty W. Moore Steven MooreThe Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier, The University of Georgia Press [5]
2017Poetry Kim Addonizio Brynne Rebele-Henry Autobiography of a Wound, University of Pittsburgh Press
2017Short Fiction Sue Miller Jon ChopanCrisis Hotline: Veterans Press I, University of Massachusetts Press
2017Novel Zachary Lazar Joshua BernsteinRachel's Tomb, New Issues Press
2017Nonfiction Gretel Ehrlich Wang Ping Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi, The University of Georgia Press [6]
2016Poetry Vijay Seshadri Lauren ClarkMusic for a Wedding, University of Pittsburgh Press
2016Short Fiction Amy Hempel Mary KurylaFreak Weather Stories, University of Massachusetts Press
2016Novel Karen Tei Yamashita James JankoThe Clubhouse Thief, New Issues Press
2016NonfictionMichael Steinberg Paisley Rekdal The Broken Country: On Trauma, A Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam, The University of Georgia Press [7]
2015PoetryCrystal Ann Williams Marci Calabretta Hour of the Ox, University of Pittsburgh Press
2015Short Fiction Nahid Rachlin Eric NeuenfeldtWild Horse, University of Massachusetts Press
2015Novel Paul Harding Carol ZorefBarren Island, New Issues Press
2015Nonfiction Lia Purpura No winner [8]
2014Poetry Joy Harjo Iliana Rocha Karankawa, University of Pittsburgh Press
2014Short Fiction Jaime Manrique Susan Muaddi DarrajA Curious Land: Stories from Home, University of Massachusetts Press
2014Novel Mary Gaitskill Charles M. BoyerHistory's Child, New Issues Press
2014Nonfiction John Phillip Santos Sarah Einstein Mot, A Memoir, University of Georgia Press [9]
2013Poetry D. A. Powell Kirsten Kaschock The Dottery, University of Pittsburgh Press
2013Short Fiction Pam Houston Carla Panciera Bewildered, University of Massachusetts Press
2013Novel Charles Yu Matthew Burriesci Nonprofit, New Issues Press
2013Nonfiction Bernard Cooper Sarah Gorham Study in Perfect, University of Georgia Press [10]
2012Poetry Arthur Sze Joan Naviyuk Kane Hyperboreal, University of Pittsburgh Press
2012Short Fiction Dan Chaon Lucas Southworth Everyone Here Has a Gun, University of Massachusetts Press
2012Novel Kathryn Davis Andrew Ladd What Ends, New Issues Press
2012Nonfiction Terry Tempest Williams Julian Hoffman The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World, University of Georgia Press [11]
2011Poetry Dorianne Laux Laura Read Instructions for My Mother's Funeral, University of Pittsburgh Press
2011Short Fiction Jhumpa Lahiri Corinna Vallianatos My Escapee, University of Massachusetts Press
2011Novel Don Lee Kirstin Scott Motherlunge, New Issues Press
2011Nonfiction Susan Orlean Marcia Aldrich Companion to an Untold Story, University of Georgia Press [12]
2010Poetry Alberto Ríos Quan Barry Water Puppets, University of Pittsburgh Press
2010Short Fiction Peter Ho Davies Douglas Light Girls in Trouble, University of Massachusetts Press
2010Novel Francine Prose Mandy Keifetz Flea Circus: A Brief Bestiary of Grief, New Issues Press
2010Nonfiction Luis Alberto Urrea Danielle Cadena Deulen The Riots, University of Georgia Press [13]
2009Poetry Jean Valentine Bradley Paul The Animals All Are Gathering
2009Short Fiction Allan Gurganus Christine Sneed Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry
2009Novel Jim Shepard Kevin Fenton Merit Badges
2009Nonfiction Lee Gutkind David Vann Last Day on Earth [14]
2008Poetry Lynn Emanuel Beth Bachmann Temper
2008Short Fiction Jewell Parker Rhodes Ramola D Temporary Lives & Other Stories
2008Novel Joanna Scott Goldie Goldbloom Toad's Museum of Freaks and Wonders
2008Nonfiction Kathleen Norris Sonja Livingston Ghostbread [15]
2007Poetry Bob Hicok Sharon Dolin Burn and Dodge
2007Short Fiction Noy Holland David Vann Legend of a Suicide
2007Novel Robert Eversz Scott Blackwood We Agreed to Meet Just Here
2007Nonfiction Michael Martone Sharon White Vanished Gardens [16]
2006Poetry Terrance Hayes Angela Ball Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds
2006Short Fiction Nancy Reisman Karen Brown Pins and Needles
2006Novel Nicholas Delbanco Geoff Rips The Truth
2006Nonfiction Kyoko Mori Mort Zachter Dough: A Memoir [17]
2005Poetry Ha Jin John Hodgen Grace
2005Short Fiction Ana Menendez Nona Caspers Heavier Than Air
2005Novel Rikki Ducornet John Robinson Dreaming America
2005Nonfiction Robin Hemley J.D. Scrimgeour Themes for English B [18]
2004Poetry Alicia Ostriker Christopher Bursk The Improbable Swervings of Atoms
2004Short Fiction Douglas Bauer No winner
2004Novel Elizabeth McCracken M. Evelina Galang One Tribe
2004Nonfiction Suzannah Lessard David Carkeet Campus Sexpot [19]
2003Poetry Stephen Dunn Barbara Hamby Babel
2003Short Fiction Joan Silber Doreen Baingana Tropical Fish
2003NovelNo winner
2003Nonfiction Beverly Lowry Karen Salyer McElmurray Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey [20]
2002Poetry Cornelius Eady Sandra Kohler The Ceremonies of Longing
2002Short Fiction Frederick Busch Joan Connor History Lessons
2002NovelNo winner
2002Nonfiction Sue William Silverman Mark Anderson Jesus Sound Explosion [21]
2001Poetry Marilyn Chin Gray Jacobik Brave Disguises
2001Short Fiction Frederick Barthelme Christie Hodgen A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw
2001NovelNo winner
2001Nonfiction Barry Sanders Jill Christman Darkroom: An Autobiography [22]
2000Poetry Li-Young Lee Joanie V. Mackowski The Zoo
2000Short Fiction Jill McCorkle Michelle Richmond The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress
2000Novel Alexander Parsons Leaving Disneyland
2000Nonfiction Sven Birkerts Brian Lennon City: An Essay [23]
1999Poetry Dorianne Laux Connie Voisine Cathedral of the North
1999Short Fiction Larry Woiwode C.J. Hribal The Clouds in Memphis
1999NovelThomas Dunn Aaron Roy Even Bloodroot
1999Nonfiction Judith Kitchen Lia Purpura Increase
1998Poetry Marvin Bell Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes Works & Days
1998Short Fiction Diane Glancy Bonnie Jo Campbell Women & Other Animals
1998Novel St. Martin's Press No winner
1998Nonfiction Kathleen Norris Michael Martone The Flatness & Other Landscapes
1997Poetry Arthur Vogelsang Josie Rawson Quarry
1997Short Fiction Robert Boswell Toni Graham The Daiquiri Girls
1997Novel St. Martin's Press No winner
1997Nonfiction James Galvin Peter Chilson Riding the Demon Road
1996Poetry Jorie Graham Michele Glazer It Is Hard to Look At What We Came to Think
1996Short Fiction George Cuomo Charlotte Bacon A Private State'
1996Nonfiction Lucy Grealy Marilyn Moriarty Moses Unchained
1995Poetry Olga Broumas Rick Noguchi The Ocean Inside Kenji Takezo
1995Short Fiction Lorrie Moore David Jauss Black Maps
1995Novel Ron Carlson Steven Bloom No New Jokes
1995Nonfiction Adam Hochschild Sue William Silverman Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
1994Poetry William Matthews Ruth Schwartz Accordion Breathing and Dancing
1994Short Fiction Elizabeth Tallent A. Manette Ansay Read This and Tell Me What It Says
1994NovelElizabeth Cox Tracy Daugherty What Falls Away
1994Nonfiction Patricia Hampl William Van Wert Memory Links
1993Poetry Carolyn Forché Reginald Shepherd Some Are Drowning
1993Short Fiction Grace Paley E. Bumas Significance
1993Novel Josephine Humphreys Mary Gardner Boat People
1993Nonfiction Phillip Lopate Michael Stephens Green Dreams: Under the Influence of the Irish
1992Poetry Lucille Clifton Suzanne Gardinier The New World
1992Short Fiction Bret Lott Daniel Lyons The First Snow
1992Novel Alison Lurie William CobbThe Fire Eaters
1992Nonfiction Stanley Lindberg Fred Setterberg Unpaved Nations: Travels Through America's Literary Landscapes
1991Poetry Ron Wallace (poet) Betsy Sholl The Red Line
1991Short Fiction Antonya Nelson Jack Driscoll Wanting Only to be Heard
1991Novel Richard Bausch No winner
1991Nonfiction Scott Russell Sanders Phyllis Barber How I Got Cultured
1990Poetry Ellen Bryant Voigt Kathleen Peirce A Living Room
1990Short Fiction Ron Hansen Karen Brennan Wild Desire
1990Novel Bob Shacochis Lamar Herrin The Lies Boys Tell
1990Nonfiction Bob Atwan  [ Wikidata ] Philip Garrison Augury
1989Poetry Alice Fulton Belle Waring Refuge
1989Short Fiction Charles Baxter Susan Hubbard Walking on Ice
1988Poetry Gerald Stern Christopher DavisThe Tyrant of the Past
1988Short Fiction David Huddle Roland Sodowsky Things We Lose
1988Novel Toby Olson Duff Brenna Mamie Beaver
1988Nonfiction Gloria Emerson Richard Terrill Saturday Night in Baoding
1987Poetry Linda Pastan Robin Behn Paper Bird
1987Short Fiction François Camoin Anne Finger Basic Skills
1987Novel John Williams No winner
1987Nonfiction David McKain Diane Ackerman Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country
1986Poetry James Whitehead & Dara Wier Judith Hemschemeyer The Ride Home
1986Short Fiction Robley Wilson, Jr., Irene Skolnick Jesse Lee Kercheval The Dogeater: Stories
1986Novel George Cuomo Kenn Robbins Buttermilk Bottoms
1986Nonfiction Irene Skolnick, Robley Wilson, Jr. No winner
1985Poetry John Frederick Nims No winner
1985Short Fiction Ann Beattie No winner
1985Novel Margaret Atwood Mack Faith The Warrior's Gift
1985Nonfiction Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Scott R. Sanders The Paradise of Bombs
1984Poetry James Tate Sandra Alcosser A Fish to Feed All Hunger
1984Short Fiction Paul Bowles Rod Kessier Off in Zimbabwe
1984Novel George Garrett William Holinger The Fence-Walker
1984Nonfiction Annie Dillard Will Baker Mountain Blood
1983Poetry Josephine Jacobsen Lisa Ress Flight Patterns
1983Short Fiction Donald Barthelme Charles Baxter Harmony of the World
1983Novel Theodore Solotaroff Doug Finn Heart of a Family
1982Poetry W.D. Snodgrass Alice Fulton Dance Script With Electric Ballerina
1982Short Fiction Raymond Carver Alvin Greenberg Delta q
1982Novel Gail Godwin John Solensten Good Thunder
1981Poetry William Meredith Paul NelsonDays Off
1981Short Fiction Stanley Elkin François Camoin The End of the World is Los Angeles
1981Novel John Irving No winner
1980Poetry Maxine Kumin William Carpenter The Hours of Morning
1980Short Fiction Joyce Carol Oates Eugene Garber Metaphysical Tales
1980Novel Hortense Calesher Mary Elsie Robertson After Freud
1979Poetry Donald Justice James Applewhite Following Gravity
1979Short Fiction Richard Yates Ian MacMillan Light and Power
1978Poetry Robert Penn Warren Jeanne Larsen James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita
1978Short Fiction Wallace Stegner Rebecca Kavaler The Further Adventure of Brunhild
1977Poetry Elizabeth Bishop Phyllis Janowitz Rites of Strangers
1976Poetry James Wright Robert Huff The Ventriloquist
1975Poetry Richard Eberhart David WalkerMoving Out [24]

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