Whiting Awards

The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2021, winners receive US$50,000.

The nominees are chosen through a juried process, and the final winners are selected by a committee of writers, scholars, and editors, selected each year by the Foundation. Writers cannot apply for the prize themselves, and the Foundation does not accept unsolicited nominations.

Since 2018, the foundation has also awarded Literary Magazine Prizes to US-based nonprofit publications whose audience is adult readers. Prize-winning magazines are invited to work with the Foundation over the course of three years and receive outright grants of $10,000–$20,000 in the first year followed by matching grants in the second and third years.