The Whiting Foundation revealed the winners of the 2025 Whiting Awards, commemorating 40 years of support for emerging writers. These awards have significantly impacted the careers of notable authors, helping many achieve prestigious accolades. This year's diverse winners hail from various backgrounds and disciplines, including poetry, playwriting, and historical writing. Each awardee receives $50,000 to foster their artistic growth. Courtney Hodell, Whiting's Director, praised the winners for their remarkable creativity and ability to craft unique narratives, highlighting individual contributions, innovative approaches to storytelling, and the powerful themes within their works.
These writers demonstrate astounding range; each has invented the tools they needed to carve out their narratives and worlds.
Elwin Cotman's stories launch into a fabulist stratosphere, but their parabolic trajectory plunges them back into an unsparing reality.
Emil Ferris's work explode[s] expectations of genre and form and alter[s] the way readers understand their experience of family, memory, and art.
Samuel Kolawole presents unforgettable characters with unthinkable choices, melding gripping narrative with indelible testimony.
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