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	Whiting Writers Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Whiting Writers Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays.
		Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985.
		This page was last modified 22:38, 7 April 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whiting_Writers_Award (63 words)

	Whiting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whiting is the name of several species of fish, see whiting (fish).
		Whiting is powdered calcium carbonate sometimes added to paint to improve the paint's opacity.
		Some things are named in the memory of people called Whiting: see for example Whiting Writers Award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whiting (163 words)

	2004 Whiting Writers' Award Recipients \| Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
		The awards, which are $35,000 each, totaling $350,000, have been given annually since 1985 to emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise.
		Whiting Writers’ Awards candidates are proposed by about a hundred nominators from across the country whose experience and vocations give them knowledge about individuals of extraordinary talent.
		Giles Whiting Foundation was established in 1963 by Flora E. Whiting.
	www.whitingfoundation.org /whiting_2004.html (780 words)

	UNCW College of Arts & Sciences: Creative Writing - Writing Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 2004, Van Jordan won a Whiting Award and was the Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
		Gotera was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, the American Academy of American Poets Prize, and the 1998 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award in Poetry.
		She was awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the California Arts Council and the Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies.
	www.uncwil.edu /writers/community-writers.html (2703 words)

	WMU News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Candidates for the annual award are made to the foundation by a network of writers, literary scholars, publishers and editors.
		Awards he previously has received include a 1995 PEN/Bernard Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, a 1994 Academy Institute Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Writers Award.
		He notes that the Lannan award is one of the most prestigious awards for writers in the country.
	www.wmich.edu /wmu/news/1998/9810/9899-060.html (365 words)

	2000 Whiting Writers' Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Whiting Writers' Awards candidates are proposed by nominators from across the country whose experience and vocations bring them in contact with individuals of extraordinary talent.
		In the years since, the Foundation has annually awarded grants to Bryn Mawr, University of Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale to fund these Fellowships the recipients of which are selected by each institution.
		The Foundation created the Whiting Writers' Awards in 1985 under the direction of Gerald Freund, who organized and led the program until his death in 1997.
	mostlyfiction.com /news/whit2000.htm (736 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		"This splendid group of writers personify the goal of the Whiting Writers’ Awards, which is to seek out, acknowledge, and encourage outstanding talent at the early stage of a career when such recognition and support is most critical," said Barbara Bristol, Director of the Writers’ Program.
		The awards ceremony was held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City on Thursday, October 29.
		Awards were bestowed by the foundation, and Seamus Heaney, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature, served as the keynote speaker.
	www.jhu.edu /~newslett/11-05-98/News/7.html (524 words)

	VCU News
		Recipients are chosen by a committee of writers, literary scholars and editors appointed annually by the Foundation.
		This year's recipients included five fiction writers, one writer of fiction and nonfiction, two nonfiction writers, one poet and one playwright.
		Giles Whiting Foundation was established in 1963 by Flora E. Whiting in 1963.
	www.vcu.edu /uns/news/vcuview/archives/nov2003/kamau.html (351 words)

	USATODAY.com - Writers plucked from obscurity to acclaim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Jonathan Franzen says he had never heard of the Whiting Writers' Award in 1988 until he got a call telling him he was being awarded $25,000.
		The Whiting is different from other prestigious awards, such as the Pulitzer Prize or the National Book Award, because it's limited to writers not yet established.
		Nominators are generally working writers, professors at universities, publishers, editors of small magazines, literary agents, dramaturges or even bookshop owners — in short, "people who would be in a position to know," says Barbara Bristol, director of the writers program for the Whiting Foundation.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2004-10-20-whiting_x.htm?POE=click-refer (452 words)

	Kenyon College - A New Voice in American Fiction
		Giles Whiting Foundation, which established the program, has presented the Whiting Awards to ten emerging writers annually since 1985 to recognize exceptional talent and promise.
		She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Zagreb to research women in Croatia's war-affected population.
		Brkic attended the Whiting Awards ceremony on Thursday, October 30, at the New York Public Library in New York City, where Robert Belknap, Whiting Foundation president, and Peter Pennoyer, a foundation trustee, announced the 2003 winners.
	www.kenyon.edu /x13717.xml (480 words)

	Undergraduate : University of Vermont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Major Jackson, assistant professor of English at the University of Vermont, was among 10 U.S. writers to receive the 2003 Whiting Writers' Award.
		The awards, given annually to "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise," were presented Thursday, Oct. 30, at a ceremony held in the New York Public Library.
		The Whiting awards were established in 1985 by the Mrs.
	www.uvm.edu /academics/undergraduate?Page=News&storyID=4224 (172 words)

	UNCG: MFA Faculty Member Wins National Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Whiting Foundation has given the Whiting Writers’ Award to A. Van Jordan, a poet and professor in the UNCG MFA Writing Program.
		MacNolia Cox was poised to win the National Spelling Bee in 1936 in Washington, D.C., when she was given the word nemesis, a word that was not on the list of words from which the judges were supposed to choose.
		According to the foundation, “The award is given to young writers of exceptional talent and promise,” and many have gone on to achieve significant prominence in American literary culture.
	www.uncg.edu /ure/news/stories/2004/oct/VanJordanAward102904.htm (517 words)

	University of Iowa Press - Browse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Awarded annually by the University of Iowa Press, the Iowa Poetry Prize is one of the leading national poetry awards.
		Born and raised in the Chicagoland area, Johnson holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the recipient of the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Poetry.
		Feitell was the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference's Margaret Bridgman Scholar in fiction in 2003.
	www.uiowa.edu /uiowapress/thebuzz.htm (3792 words)

	Display Interview
		He is the youngest winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award in 2000, and currently splits his time between Tennessee and Austin, TX.
		My understanding of that award is that you have to be nominated to be eligible.
		Dan: Having been 22 when you won the Whiting in 2000, you are obviously still very young.
	www.breaktech.net /EmergingWritersForum/View_Interview.aspx?id=139 (2239 words)

	Whiting Writers' Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The award is given in the categories of: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, playwright.
		The Whiting Writers' Awards are given to encourage exceptionally promising emerging talent.
		The recipients are chosen by a committee of writers, literary scholars, and editors.
	www.literature-awards.com /whiting_writers.htm (302 words)

	News -- Professor Wins $35K Award for Poetry
		Members of the foundation nominate Whiting Writers’ Awards’ contenders from across the country.
		In 1972, after her unrestricted donation of $10 million, the Foundation was able to offer Whiting Fellowships in the Humanities for doctoral candidates in their dissertation year.
		Gerald Freund first organized the Whiting Writers’ Awards in 1985 and led the program until his death in 1997.
	www.thehoya.com /news/111502/news7.cfm (562 words)

	WMU News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Eimers was one of five poets selected for the awards, which are presented by the Mrs.
		Two fiction writers, two nonfiction writers and one playwright were also chosen.
		Among her earlier awards are two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and two Creative Arts Faculty Research Fellowships.
	www.wmich.edu /wmu/news/1998/9811/9899-094.html (319 words)

	Faculty - Napa Valley Writers' Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, Chang is the recipient of fellowships from the Princeton University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the NEA.
		She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
		She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Pushcart Prize, among other awards.
	www.napavalley.edu /writersconf/faculty.html (470 words)

	UI faculty member, two alumni are among winners of Whiting Writers’ Award
		The UI winners are Naomi Iizuka, a visiting faculty member in the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop of the UI department of theatre arts, and Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni Ehud Havazelet and Z.Z. Packer.
		Giles Whiting Foundation was established in 1963 by Flora E. Whiting with a $10 million bequest.
		The Whiting Writers’ Awards were established in 1985, and past winners include Tony Kushner, August Wilson, Stanley Crouch, Alice McDermott, Mona Simpson, Iowa native JoAnn Beard and Michael Cunningham, the UI Writers’ Workshop alumnus who won the 1999 Pulitizer Prize for fiction.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/1999/october/1029whiting.html (352 words)

	A Civil War-era underworld and its evil genius - The Boston Globe
		Canaan's Tongue By John Wray Knopf, 352 pp., $25 John Wray is a talented young writer, a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, and his first novel, ''The Right Hand of Sleep," set in Austria after the Second World War, received much acclaim.
		John Wray is a talented young writer, a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, and his first novel, ''The Right Hand of Sleep," set in Austria after the Second World War, received much acclaim.
		I can only hope he will find the right subject for his next novel, that he will eschew gratuitous violence, that he will be grabbed by characters he can fully develop and reward us with a fine, less cluttered narrative: the very book his large talent has the ability to create.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/08/28/a_civil_war_era_underworld_and_its_evil_genius (755 words)

	2002 Whiting Writers Awards 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The 2002 Whiting Writers Awards Winners were announced at a ceremony at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York on Wednesday, October 30.
		The 2002 Whiting Writers Awards Winners recognized this year for their outstanding talent and promise are:
		He teaches at the University of Maryland and lives in Washington, D.C. Whiting Writers' Awards candidates are proposed by nominators from across the country whose experience and vocations bring them in contact with individuals of extraordinary talent.
	www.literature-awards.com /news_nov1.htm (915 words)

	Granta: News: Courtney Angela Brkic wins Whiting Writers' Award
		Courtney Angela Brkic has been named the recipient of one of the 2003 Whiting Writers' Awards.
		The awards, which carry a prize of $35,000 each, have been given annually since 1985 by the Mrs.
		Giles Whiting Foundation to emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise.
	www.granta.com /news/item?item_id=705663 (62 words)

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		Chee, who is a visiting writer in the English Department, said it took him about two and a half years before he found a publisher for his first novel, ‘Edinburgh.’ Since this early struggle, “Edinburgh” has been well received.
		Chee said that the award was particularly meaningful to him as many of his favorite authors, including fiction writer Denis Johnson, had received it in the past.
		The award, according to its website, has honored “ten emerging writers” annually since 1985, including authors of fiction, nonfiction, plays, and poetry.
	www.wesleyan.edu /argus/archives/nov112003/dateyear/n2.html (693 words)

	USU - Vice President for Research - News Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Department of English assistant professor Christopher Cokinos is one of ten recipients of the 2003 Whiting Writers’ Awards.
		The awards have been given annually since 1985 to emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise.
		Jennifer Peeples, assistant professor in the Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication Department, and her co-author, Dr. Kevin DeLuca, University of Georgia, were awarded the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award by the National Communication Association for the most outstanding scholarly monograph published during the previous year.
	www.usu.edu /vpr/news/archivedetail.asp?ID=57 (262 words)

	Sewanee
		In addition to the Guggenheim, he has received an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
		Winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is the youngest poet included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry.
		His honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, two Obie Awards, and the Sidney Kingsley Award in Playwriting from the Dramatists Guild of America.
	www2.sewanee.edu /communications/events?id=12581 (606 words)

	OAKLAND / Mills staff members win writing awards
		Victor LaValle is one of six poets and fiction writers to receive the New York-based Whiting Writers' Award.
		Micheline Aharonian Marcom was one of five writers nationwide chosen for the Lannan Literary Fellowship in New Mexico.
		Mills visiting writer Marcom won a $70,000 fellowship to continue working on her trilogy, which is already drawing widespread acclaim.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/04/BAEBDIGEST3.DTL&type=printable (226 words)

	Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society
		She is the recipient of O. Henry Awards in 1993 and 1995 and a Teaching Excellence Recognition Award from Indiana University in 1997, as well as numerous scholarly fellowships.
		Martha Morss, awarded a William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fellowship, is a writer and editor from Mount Vernon, Ohio.
		She is a writer from Brooklyn, NY whose articles and essays have appeared in online magazines and in the anthology, Before and After: Stories from New York, and is a former fellow in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Edward Albee Foundation.
	www.americanantiquarian.org /pastartfellow.htm (3838 words)

	2003 Whiting Writers' Award Recipients \| Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
		Now in its nineteenth year, the program has awarded more than $5 million to 190 poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, and playwrights.
		He has been awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Prize on three occasions as well as the Obie, the Tony, and London’s Olivier Award for Best Play.
		Winners are chosen by a selection committee consisting of a small anonymous group of recognized writers, literary scholars, and editors, appointed annually by the Foundation.
	www.whitingfoundation.org /whiting_2003.html (740 words)

	Sarah Lawrence College - Poetry Festival: Speaker Bios
		Among her awards are the inaugural San Francisco Book Award, The Lamont Poetry Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, the James Merrill Fellowship, and serving as the New York State Poet Laureate (1998-2000).
		Jackson is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown the Whiting Writers’ Award, as well as a commission from The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.
		Educated at Harvard (A.B.) and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (M.F.A.), she was the Hodder Fellow in Poetry at Princeton in 2003—2004.
	www.slc.edu /index.php?pageID=3077 (1292 words)

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