2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners: $10,000 each.

Poetry: Kay Ryan for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems.
Fiction. Jennifer Egan for A Visit from the Goon Squad.
General Nonfiction: Siddhartha Mukherjee for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.

Fifth Annual Danahy Fiction Prize from Tampa Review. Heather Sappenfield for “Indian Prayer.” $1,000.

2010 Literary Fiction Contest by Leapfrog Press:

Adult Category: Joan Connor for How to Stop Loving Someone (stories). Forthcoming, October 2011.
Children’s (middle-grade) Category: Mick Carlon for Riding on Duke’s Train. Forthcoming, January 2012.

2011 Guggenheim Fellows:

Fiction Fellows: Bonnie Jo Campbell, Jonathan R. Dee, Christie Anne Hodgen, Clancy Martin, Valerie Martin, Karen Elizabeth Russell, David James Vann, Lara Vapnyar, Brad Watson

Poetry Fellows: Peter Campion, Claudia Emerson, Paul Guest, Kimberly Johnson, Eleanor Lerman, Maurice Walker Manning, D.A. Powell, Alicia Elsbeth (A.E.) Stallings, Matthew J. Zapruder, Cynthia Rebecca Zarin

General Nonfiction Fellows: Eula Biss, Stephen Budiansky, Mary Cappello, John Philip D’Agata, Wil Haygood, Adina Hoffman, Ann Maret Jones, Richard A. Leo, Rosemary Mahoney, Tara McKelvey, Katherine Russell Rich, Patricia Volk, Tom Lee Wells

Literary Criticism Fellows: Grace S. Fong, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Bruce Robbins

Translation Fellows: Sachiko Murata, Bill Porter

Glimmer Train January Very Short Fiction Award:

First place: Matt Lapata, $1,200 for “Ohio Home.”  His story will be published in the Summer 2012 issue of Glimmer Train Stories. 

Second place: Jennie Lin, $500 for “Seven Winters of Teeth.”   

Third place: Rav Grewal- Kök, $300 for “Prisoners.” 

Glimmer Train January Very Short Fiction Award:

First place: Joanna Arnow, $1,200 for “Waiting for Food Stamps.”  Her story will be published in the Summer 2012 issue of Glimmer Train Stories

Second place: Brian Zimbler, $500 for “Dumbguy.”   

Third place: Jason Wallace, $300 for “Chasing Murakami.”    

The Poetry Society of America's 2011 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award for a manuscript-in-progress: Beth Bachmann. Judge: Elizabeth Willis.