List of AWP Award winners
The AWP Award is an annual competition for the publication of new book-length works. The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is a nonprofit organization of writers, teachers, colleges, and universities.

List of AWP Award winners

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Table Section Text: The AWP Award is an annual competition for the publication of new book-length works. The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is a nonprofit organization of writers, teachers, colleges, and universities.

Year	Category	Judge	Winner	Work

2013	Poetry	D. A. Powell	Kirsten Kaschock	The Dottery, University of Pittsburgh Press

2013	Short Fiction	Pam Houston	Carla Panciera	Bewildered, University of Massachusetts Press

2013	Novel	Charles Yu	Matthew Burriesci	Nonprofit, New Issues Press

2013	Nonfiction	Bernard Cooper	Sarah Gorham	Study in Perfect, University of Georgia Press

2012	Poetry	Arthur Sze	Joan Naviyuk Kane	Hyperboreal, University of Pittsburgh Press

2012	Short Fiction	Dan Chaon	Lucas Southworth	Everyone Here Has a Gun, University of Massachusetts Press

2012	Novel	Kathryn Davis	Andrew Ladd	What Ends, New Issues Press

2012	Nonfiction	Terry Tempest Williams	Julian Hoffman	The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World, University of Georgia Press

2011	Poetry	Dorianne Laux	Laura Read	Instructions for My Mother's Funeral, University of Pittsburgh Press

2011	Short Fiction	Jhumpa Lahiri	Corinna Vallianatos	My Escapee, University of Massachusetts Press

2011	Novel	Don Lee	Kirstin Scott	Motherlunge, New Issues Press

2011	Nonfiction	Susan Orlean	Marcia Aldrich	Companion to an Untold Story, University of Georgia Press

2010	Poetry	Alberto Ríos	Quan Barry	Water Puppets, University of Pittsburgh Press

2010	Short Fiction	Peter Ho Davies	Douglas Light	Girls in Trouble, University of Massachusetts Press

2010	Novel	Francine Prose	Mandy Keifetz	Flea Circus: A Brief Bestiary of Grief, New Issues Press

2010	Nonfiction	Luis Alberto Urrea	Danielle Cadena Deulen	The Riots, University of Georgia Press

2009	Poetry	Jean Valentine	Bradley Paul	The Animals All Are Gathering

2009	Short Fiction	Allan Gurganus	Christine Sneed	Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry

2009	Novel	Jim Shepard	Kevin Fenton	Merit Badges

2009	Nonfiction	Lee Gutkind	David Vann	Last Day on Earth

2008	Poetry	Lynn Emanuel	Beth Bachmann	Temper

2008	Short Fiction	Jewell Parker Rhodes	Ramola D	Temporary Lives & Other Stories

2008	Novel	Joanna Scott	Goldie Goldbloom	Toad's Museum of Freaks and Wonders

2008	Nonfiction	Kathleen Norris	Sonja Livingston	Ghostbread

2007	Poetry	Bob Hicok	Sharon Dolin	Burn and Dodge

2007	Short Fiction	Noy Holland	David Vann	Legend of a Suicide

2007	Novel	Robert Eversz	Scott Blackwood	We Agreed to Meet Just Here

2007	Nonfiction	Michael Martone	Sharon White	Vanished Gardens

2006	Poetry	Terrance Hayes	Angela Ball	Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds

2006	Short Fiction	Nancy Reisman	Karen Brown	Pins and Needles

2006	Novel	Nicholas Delbanco	Geoff Rips	The Truth

2006	Nonfiction	Kyoko Mori	Mort Zachter	Dough: A Memoir

2005	Poetry	Ha Jin	John Hodgen	Grace

2005	Short Fiction	Ana Menendez	Nona Caspers	Heavier Than Air

2005	Novel	Rikki Ducornet	John Robinson	Dreaming America

2005	Nonfiction	Robin Hemley	J.D. Scrimgeour	Themes for English B

2004	Poetry	Alicia Ostriker	Christopher Bursk	The Improbable Swervings of Atoms

2004	Short Fiction	Douglas Bauer	No winner

2004	Novel	Elizabeth McCracken	M. Evelina Galang	One Tribe

2004	Nonfiction	Suzannah Lessard	David Carkeet	Campus Sexpot

2003	Poetry	Stephen Dunn	Barbara Hamby	Babel

2003	Short Fiction	Joan Silber	Doreen Baingana	Tropical Fish

2003	Novel	No winner

2003	Nonfiction	Beverly Lowry	Karen Salyer McElmurray	Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey

2002	Poetry	Cornelius Eady	Sandra Kohler	The Ceremonies of Longing

2002	Short Fiction	Frederick Busch	Joan Connor	History Lessons

2002	Novel	No winner

2002	Nonfiction	Sue William Silverman	Mark Anderson	Jesus Sound Explosion

2001	Poetry	Marilyn Chin	Gray Jacobik	Brave Disguises

2001	Short Fiction	Frederick Barthelme	Christie Hodgen	A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw

2001	Novel	No winner

2001	Nonfiction	Barry Sanders	Jill Christman	Darkroom: An Autobiography

2000	Poetry	Li-Young Lee	Joanie V. Mackowski	The Zoo

2000	Short Fiction	Jill McCorkle	Michelle Richmond	The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress

2000	Novel	Alexander Parsons	Leaving Disneyland

2000	Nonfiction	Sven Birkerts	Brian Lennon	City: An Essay

1999	Poetry	Dorianne Laux	Connie Voisine	Cathedral of the North

1999	Short Fiction	Larry Woiwode	C.J. Hribal	The Clouds in Memphis

1999	Novel	Thomas Dunn	Aaron Roy Even	Bloodroot

1999	Nonfiction	Judith Kitchen	Lia Purpura	Increase

1998	Poetry	Marvin Bell	Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes	Works & Days

1998	Short Fiction	Diane Glancy	Bonnie Jo Campbell	Women & Other Animals

1998	Novel	St. Martin's Press	No winner

1998	Nonfiction	Kathleen Norris	Michael Martone	The Flatness & Other Landscapes

1997	Poetry	Arthur Vogelsang	Josie Rawson	Quarry

1997	Short Fiction	Robert Boswell	Toni Graham	The Daiquiri Girls

1997	Novel	St. Martin's Press	No winner

1997	Nonfiction	James Galvin	Peter Chilson	Riding the Demon Road

1996	Poetry	Jorie Graham	Michele Glazer	It Is Hard to Look At What We Came to Think

1996	Short Fiction	George Cuomo	Charlotte Bacon	A Private State'

1996	Nonfiction	Lucy Grealy	Marilyn Moriarty	Moses Unchained

1995	Poetry	Olga Broumas	Rick Noguchi	The Ocean Inside Kenji Takezo

1995	Short Fiction	Lorrie Moore	David Jauss	Black Maps

1995	Novel	Ron Carlson	Steven Bloom	No New Jokes

1995	Nonfiction	Adam Hochschild	Sue William Silverman	Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You

1994	Poetry	William Matthews	Ruth Schwartz	Accordion Breathing and Dancing

1994	Short Fiction	Elizabeth Tallent	A. Manette Ansay	Read This and Tell Me What It Says

1994	Novel	Elizabeth Cox	Tracy Daugherty	What Falls Away

1994	Nonfiction	Patricia Hampl	William Van Wert	Memory Links

1993	Poetry	Carolyn Forché	Reginald Shepherd	Some Are Drowning

1993	Short Fiction	Grace Paley	E. Bumas	Significance

1993	Novel	Josephine Humphreys	Mary Gardner	Boat People

1993	Nonfiction	Phillip Lopate	Michael Stephens	Green Dreams: Under the Influence of the Irish

1992	Poetry	Lucille Clifton	Suzanne Gardinier	The New World

1992	Short Fiction	Bret Lott	Daniel Lyons	The First Snow

1992	Novel	Alison Lurie	William Cobb	The Fire Eaters

1992	Nonfiction	Stanley Lindberg	Fred Setterberg	Unpaved Nations: Travels Through America's Literary Landscapes

1991	Poetry	Ron Wallace (poet)	Betsy Sholl	The Red Line

1991	Short Fiction	Antonya Nelson	Jack Driscoll	Wanting Only to be Heard

1991	Novel	Richard Bausch	No winner

1991	Nonfiction	Scott Russell Sanders	Phyllis Barber	How I Got Cultured

1990	Poetry	Ellen Bryant Voigt	Kathleen Peirce	A Living Room

1990	Short Fiction	Ron Hansen	Karen Brennan	Wild Desire

1990	Novel	Bob Shacochis	Lamar Herrin	The Lies Boys Tell

1990	Nonfiction	Bob Atwan	Philip Garrison	Augury

1989	Poetry	Alice Fulton	Belle Waring	Refuge

1989	Short Fiction	Charles Baxter	Susan Hubbard	Walking on Ice

1988	Poetry	Gerald Stern	Christopher Davis	The Tyrant of the Past

1988	Short Fiction	David Huddle	Roland Sodowsky	Things We Lose

1988	Novel	Toby Olson	Duff Brenna	Mamie Beaver

1988	Nonfiction	Gloria Emerson	Richard Terrill	Saturday Night in Baoding

1987	Poetry	Linda Pastan	Robin Behn	Paper Bird

1987	Short Fiction	François Camoin	Anne Finger	Basic Skills

1987	Novel	John Williams	No winner

1987	Nonfiction	David McKain	Diane Ackerman	Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country

1986	Poetry	James Whitehead & Dara Wier	Judith Hemschemeyer	The Ride Home

1986	Short Fiction	Robley Wilson, Jr., Irene Skolnick	Jesse Lee Kercheval	The Dogeater: Stories

1986	Novel	George Cuomo	Kenn Robbins	Buttermilk Bottoms

1986	Nonfiction	Irene Skolnick, Robley Wilson, Jr.	No winner

1985	Poetry	John Frederick Nims	No winner

1985	Short Fiction	Ann Beattie	No winner

1985	Novel	Margaret Atwood	Mack Faith	The Warrior's Gift

1985	Nonfiction	Susan Fromberg Schaeffer	Scott R. Sanders	The Paradise of Bombs

1984	Poetry	James Tate	Sandra Alcosser	A Fish to Feed All Hunger

1984	Short Fiction	Paul Bowles	Rod Kessier	Off in Zimbabwe

1984	Novel	George Garrett	William Holinger	The Fence-Walker

1984	Nonfiction	Annie Dillard	Will Baker	Mountain Blood

1983	Poetry	Josephine Jacobsen	Lisa Ress	Flight Patterns

1983	Short Fiction	Donald Barthelme	Charles Baxter	Harmony of the World

1983	Novel	Theodore Solotaroff	Doug Finn	Heart of a Family

1982	Poetry	W.D. Snodgrass	Alice Fulton	Dance Script With Electric Ballerina

1982	Short Fiction	Raymond Carver	Alvin Greenberg	Delta q

1982	Novel	Gail Godwin	John Solensten	Good Thunder

1981	Poetry	William Meredith	Paul Nelson	Days Off

1981	Short Fiction	Stanley Elkin	François Camoin	The End of the World is Los Angeles

1981	Novel	John Irving	No winner

1980	Poetry	Maxine Kumin	William Carpenter	The Hours of Morning

1980	Short Fiction	Joyce Carol Oates	Eugene Garber	Metaphysical Tales

1980	Novel	Hortense Calesher	Mary Elsie Robertson	After Freud

1979	Poetry	Donald Justice	James Applewhite	Following Gravity

1979	Short Fiction	Richard Yates	Ian MacMillan	Light and Power

1978	Poetry	Robert Penn Warren	Jeanne Larsen	James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita

1978	Short Fiction	Wallace Stegner	Rebecca Kavaler	The Further Adventure of Brunhild

1977	Poetry	Elizabeth Bishop	Phyllis Janowitz	Rites of Strangers

1976	Poetry	James Wright	Robert Huff	The Ventriloquist

1975	Poetry	Richard Eberhart	David Walker	Moving Out

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