| Year |
Genre |
Judge |
Winner |
Title |
| 1999 |
Poetry |
Dorianne Laux |
Connie Voisine |
Cathedral of the North |
|
Short Fiction |
Larry Woiwode |
C.J. Hribal |
The Clouds in Memphis |
|
Novel |
Thomas Dunne |
Aaron Roy Even |
Bloodroot |
|
Nonfiction |
Judith Kitchen |
Lia Purpura |
Increase |
| | | | | |
| 1998 |
Poetry |
Marvin Bell |
Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes |
Works & Days |
|
Short Fiction |
Diane Glancy |
Bonnie Jo Campbell |
Women & Other Animals |
|
Novel |
St. Martin's Press |
No winner |
|
|
Nonfiction |
Kathleen Norris |
Michael Martone |
The Flatness & Other Landscapes |
| | | | | |
| 1997 |
Poetry |
Arthur Vogelsang |
Josie Rawson |
Quarry |
|
Short Fiction |
Robert Boswell |
Toni Graham |
The Daiquiri Girls |
|
Novel |
St. Martin's Press |
No winner |
|
|
Nonfiction |
James Galvin |
Peter Chilson |
Riding the Demon Road |
| | | | | |
| 1996 |
Poetry |
Jorie Graham |
Michelle Glazer |
It Is Hard to Look At What We Came to Think |
|
Short Fiction |
George Cuomo |
Charlotte Bacon |
A Private State |
|
Nonfiction |
Lucy Grealy |
Marilyn Moriarty |
Moses Unchained |
| | | | | |
| 1995 |
Poetry |
Olga Broumas |
Rick Noguchi |
The Ocean Inside Kenji Takezo |
|
Short Fiction |
Lorrie Moore |
David Jauss |
Black Maps |
|
Novel |
Ron Carlson |
Steven Bloom |
No New Jokes |
|
Nonfiction |
Adam Hochschild |
Sue William Silverman |
Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You |
| | | | | |
| 1994 |
Poetry |
William Matthews |
Ruth Schwartz |
Accordion Breathing and Dancing |
|
Short Fiction |
Elizabeth Tallent |
A. Manette Ansay |
Read This and Tell Me What It Says |
|
Novel |
Elizabeth Cox |
Tracy Daugherty |
What Falls Away |
|
Nonfiction |
Patricia Hampl |
William Van Wert |
Memory Links |
| | | | | |
| 1993 |
Poetry |
Carolyn Forché |
Reginald Shepherd |
Some Are Drowning |
|
Short Fiction |
Grace Paley |
E. Bumas |
Significance |
|
Novel |
Josephine Humphreys |
Mary Gardner |
Boat People |
|
Nonfiction |
Phillip Lopate |
Michael Stephens |
Green Dreams: Under the Influence of the Irish |
| | | | | |
| 1992 |
Poetry |
Lucille Clifton |
Suzanne Gardinier |
The New World |
|
Short Fiction |
Bret Lott |
Daniel Lyons |
The First Snow |
|
Novel |
Alison Lurie |
William Cobb |
The Fire Eaters |
|
Nonfiction |
Stanley Lindberg |
Fred Setterberg |
Unpaved Nations: Travels Through America's Literary Landscapes |
| | | | | |
| 1991 |
Poetry |
Ron Wallace |
Betsy Sholl |
The Red Line |
|
Short Fiction |
Antonya Nelson |
Jack Driscoll |
Wanting Only to be Heard |
|
Novel |
Richard Bausch |
No winner |
|
|
Nonfiction |
Scott Russell Sanders |
Phyllis Barber |
How I Got Cultured |
| | | | | |
| 1990 |
Poetry |
Ellen Bryant Voigt |
Kathleen Peirce |
A Living Room |
|
Short Fiction |
Ron Hansen |
Karen Brennan |
Wild Desire |
|
Novel |
Bob Shacochis |
Lamar Herrin |
The Lies Boys Tell |
|
Nonfiction |
Bob Atwan |
Philip Garrison |
Augury |
| | | | | |
| 1989 |
Poetry |
Alice Fulton |
Belle Waring |
Refuge |
|
Short Fiction |
Charles Baxter |
Susan Hubbard |
Walking on Ice |
| | | | | |
| 1988 |
Poetry |
Gerald Stern |
Christopher Davis |
The Tyrant of the Past |
|
Short Fiction |
David Huddle |
Roland Sodowsky |
Things We Lose |
|
Novel |
Toby Olson |
Duff Brenna |
Mamie Beaver |
|
Nonfiction |
Gloria Emerson |
Richard Terrill |
Saturday Night in Baoding |
| | | | | |
| 1987 |
Poetry |
Linda Pastan |
Robin Behn |
Paper Bird |
|
Short Fiction |
Francois Camoin |
Anne Finger |
Basic Skills |
|
Novel |
John Williams |
No winner |
|
|
Nonfiction |
David McKain |
Diane Ackerman |
Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country |
| | | | | |
| 1986 |
Poetry |
James Whitehead & Dara Wier |
Judith Hemschemeyer |
The Ride Home |
|
Short Fiction |
Robley Wilson, Jr. & Irene Skolnick |
Jesse Lee Kercheval |
The Dogeater: Stories |
|
Novel |
George Cuomo |
Kenn Robbins |
Buttermilk Bottoms |
|
Nonfiction |
Irene Skolnick & Robley Wilson, Jr. |
No winner |
|
| | | | | |
| 1985 |
Poetry |
John Frederick Nims |
No winner |
|
|
Short Fiction |
Ann Beattie |
No winner |
|
|
Novel |
Margaret Atwood |
Mack Faith |
The Warrior's Gift |
|
Nonfiction |
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer |
Scott R. Sanders |
The Paradise of Bombs |
| | | | | |
| 1984 |
Poetry |
James Tate |
Sandra Alcosser |
A Fish to Feed All Hunger |
|
Short Fiction |
Paul Bowles |
Rod Kessier |
Off in Zimbabwe |
|
Novel |
George Garrett |
William Holinger |
The Fence-Walker |
|
Nonfiction |
Annie Dillard |
Will Baker |
Mountain Blood |
| | | | | |
| 1983 |
Poetry |
Josephine Jacobsen |
Lisa Ress |
Flight Patterns |
|
Short Fiction |
Donald Barthelme |
Charles Baxter |
Harmony of the World |
|
Novel |
Theodore Solotaroff |
Doug Finn |
Heart of a Family |
| | | | | |
| 1982 |
Poetry |
W.D. Snodgrass |
Alice Fulton |
Dance Script With Electric Ballerina |
|
Short Fiction |
Raymond Carver |
Alvin Greenberg |
Delta q |
|
Novel |
Gail Godwin |
John Solensten |
Good Thunder |
| | | | | |
| 1981 |
Poetry |
William Meredith |
Paul Nelson |
Days Off |
|
Short Fiction |
Stanley Elkin |
Francois Camoin |
The End of the World is Los Angeles |
|
Novel |
John Irving |
No winner |
|
| | | | | |
| 1980 |
Poetry |
Maxine Kumin |
William Carpenter |
The Hours of Morning |
|
Short Fiction |
Joyce Carol Oates |
Eugene Garber |
Metaphysical Tales |
|
Novel |
Hortense Calesher |
Mary Elsie Robertson |
After Freud |
| | | | | |
| 1979 |
Poetry |
Donald Justice |
James Applewhite |
Following Gravity |
|
Short Fiction |
Richard Yates |
Ian MacMillan |
Light and Power |
| | | | | |
| 1978 |
Poetry |
Robert Penn Warren |
Jeanne Larsen |
James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita |
|
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 |
