List of AWP Award winners
Table:
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
[2]

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
[3]

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
[4]

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
[5]

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
[6]

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
[7]

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
[8]

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
[9]

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
[10]

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
[11]

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
[12]

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
[13]

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
[14]

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
[15]

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
[16]

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