Introducing the Winners of the 2022 Whiting Awards

For the eighth consecutive year, The Paris Review is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Whiting Awards. As in previous years, we’re also delighted to share excerpts of work by each of the winners. Here’s the list of the 2021 honorees:

Claire Boyles, fictionRita Bullwinkel, fictionIna Cariño, poetryAnthony Cody, poetryAnaïs Duplan, nonfictionAlexis Pauline Gumbs, nonfictionMegha Majumdar, fictionJesse McCarthy, nonfictionNana Nkweti, fictionClaire Schwartz, poetry

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 $50,000 each, are based on early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come. Previous recipients include Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, Jeffrey Eugenides, Tony Kushner, Sigrid Nunez, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Mona Simpson, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and Colson Whitehead.

Congratulations to this year’s honorees. And for more great writing from Whiting Award recipients, check out our collections of work from the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 winners.

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