Whiting Foundation

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress! Learn more about their groundbreaking and original books and read excerpts from their work on our website: www.whiting.org/writers/crea...

Congratulations to Raksha Vasudevan, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for EMPIRES BETWEEN US! Read more about her work here: www.whiting.org/content/raks...

Congratulations to Avi Steinberg, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for GRACE PALEY: A LIFE! Read more about his work here: www.whiting.org/content/avi-...

Congratulations to @alexmlwrites.bsky.social, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for BOTH AND NEITHER! Read more about their work here: www.whiting.org/content/alex...

Congratulations to Will Harris, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for NEED IS NEED! Read more about his work here: www.whiting.org/content/will...

Congratulations to Grace Elizabeth Hale, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for THEY DON'T OWN US! Read more about her work here: www.whiting.org/content/grac...

Congratulations to Elena Dudum, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for THEY TOLD ME BACK HOME WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL! Read more about her work here: www.whiting.org/content/elen...

Congratulations to @caitlindickerson.bsky.social, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for DEPORTED! Read more about her work here: www.whiting.org/content/cait...

Congratulations to S.C. Cornell, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for THE MIGRANT AND THE MURDERER! Read more about her work here: www.whiting.org/content/sc-c...

Congratulations to Jason Cherkis, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for THE ATTEMPTERS! Read more about his work here: www.whiting.org/content/jaso...

Congratulations to @paulbogard.bsky.social, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for HOW TO SEE THE SKY! Read more about his work here: www.whiting.org/content/paul...

“The Songs Prove That We Were Here”: Ocean Vuong on Sufjan Stevens When Carrie & Lowell was first released in 2015, I was still in grad school at NYU, trying to finish what would become my first book of poems, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. I remember listening t…

Ocean Vuong remembers listening to Sufjan Stevens’s Carrie & Lowell for the first time: “The songs prove that we were here. They are made of air—and yet we walk on them.”

"That is the great miracle of this work. Words weigh nothing, and yet they make everything occur."

We are so thankful to Ocean Vuong, who gave the keynote speech at the 2025 Whiting Awards in April. Read his full speech via @literaryhub.bsky.social: lithub.com/ocean-vuong-...

What a lineup! Join us next week to celebrate previous Whiting Literary Magazine Prize Winner The Common's 15th Anniversary!

Congratulations to Ocean Vuong (Whiting Award 2016), whose new novel THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS is out today from @penguinpress.bsky.social!

Buy the book, and read more work by Vuong on our website: www.whiting.org/new-books

Annie Wenstrup, author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories, has just won the #WhitingAward!

Learn more about this amazing achievement from
@whitingfoundation.bsky.social: www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

#AnnieWenstrup #IndigenousAlaska #Poetry #Booksky

Congratulations to @shubhasunder.bsky.social, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

Congratulations to Claire Luchette, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Fiction! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

Congratulations to @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Fiction! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

Congratulations to Emil Ferris, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Fiction!
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Congratulations to Elwin Cotman, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Fiction! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

Congratulations to Liza Birkenmeier, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Drama! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

Congratulations to Sofi Thanhauser, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Nonfiction!
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Congratulations to Aisha Sabatini Sloan, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Nonfiction!
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Congratulations to @akwenstrup.bsky.social, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Poetry! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

Congratulations to @karismaprice.bsky.social, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Poetry! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

We can't wait to share the names of the 2025 Whiting Award winners! Keep an eye out for the announcement of this year's recipients at 7pm on Wednesday, April 9.

Screenshots from The whiting Foundation created nonfiction grant guidelines

Screenshots from The whiting Foundation created nonfiction grant guidelines

Working on a "deeply researched and imaginatively composed" manuscript about the South and considering applying to the Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant? Let me know. We have one spot left in 2026 for the right literary nonfiction project and bc we're small/nimble, can get the contract done in time.

To celebrate this month's Blood Moon, between March 13 and March 24th, the first 50 people to become a Sustaining Partner will each unlock a $150 gift to Orion from the @whitingfoundation.bsky.social Help support Orion—just a few more days to sign up!
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On 3/6, join the Whiting Foundation at our 2025 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant info session! Learn more about the grant (deadline 4/23) and ask our staff your questions. Find the registration link and more info about the application here: www.whiting.org/writers/crea...