Whiting Awards ほわいてぃんぐしょう
Edition 32 (2017)
Winners
10 peopleA darkly comic play about a woman caring for her ill father while trying to reckon with her own emptiness and loneliness.
Fantasy and reality blur as the play examines care, intimacy, and survival.
A play in which language, desire, class, and love collide, exposing the instability of family and intimacy.
Play with language and emotional pressure give family scenes a sharp outline.
A play about an artist who hires a woman to perform a persona, exposing distortions in representation and power.
Transactions around race, gender, and art unravel with both humor and unease.
A debut novel that tracks cleaning work, addiction, and a shifting self-image with strange lightness and humor.
A chaotic life is rendered with dry humor and warm observation.
A novel that uses a research institute and one family to expose questions of race, language, and assimilation.
An experiment involving a chimpanzee lays bare the wounds inside a family.
A novel built around an uneven love affair and an airport detention, tracing power imbalances across two very different settings.
A two-part structure shifts between intimacy and state power.
A novel about Stanford graduates whose friendships and ambitions reveal the anxieties and absurdities of millennial life.
Love, work, and class consciousness unwind in the conversations of young urban adults.
A nonfiction book that uses experience in the Border Patrol to examine violence and ethics on both sides of the border.
The work of guarding a border eventually brings the border inside the self.
A poetry collection that folds in dispersion, Blackness, code-switching, and a feminist eye while unsettling poetic form.
A voice that is sharp, layered, and often unpredictable tries to re-stitch a dispersed world.
A poetry collection that confronts desire, violence, racism, and homophobia with urban pressure and force.
Polyphonic poems blur the line between harming and being harmed.