Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Introducing the Winners of the 2019 Whiting Awards
For the fifth consecutive year, The Paris Review Daily is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Whiting Awards. As in previous years, we’re also delighted to share excerpts from work by each of the winners. Here’s the list of honorees:
- Kayleb Rae Candrilli, poetry
- Tyree Daye, poetry
- Hernan Diaz, fiction
- Michael R. Jackson, drama
- Terese Marie Mailhot, nonfiction
- Nadia Owusu, nonfiction
- Nafissa Thompson-Spires, fiction
- Merritt Tierce, fiction
- Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, poetry
- Lauren Yee, drama
Since 1985, the Whiting Foundation has supported creative writing through the Whiting Awards, which are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. The awards, of fifty thousand dollars each, are based on early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come.