Whiting Awards ほわいてぃんぐしょう
第38回(2023年)
受賞者
10名A play about shifting identity, family negotiations, and the difficulty of knowing oneself. Sharp humor sits beside emotional fracture.
A play about identity and family, balancing sharp humor with emotional fracture.
A multi-voiced novel that braids reggae rhythm, spirits, and Jamaican history. Memory and survival resonate through a musical, haunted narrative.
A multi-voiced novel weaving reggae, spirits, and Jamaican history.
A story collection set in a Harlem apartment building, following residents living under the pressure of gentrification. Humor and solidarity persist inside hard realities.
A story collection about Harlem tenants living under the pressure of gentrification.
A story collection rooted in Latino communities in Southern California, where horror, realism, and family tension overlap. Ordinary life slowly tilts toward the uncanny.
A story collection from Southern California’s Latino communities, blending horror with family tension.
A graphic novella about a family in Hawaii moving through loss and transition. Awkward affection and pain across three generations linger in quiet images and words.
A graphic novella about a Hawaiian family living through loss, transition, and three generations of affection.
A piece of reportage about Holocaust memory, justice, and family history. It follows distorted history and the burden of responsibility as living testimony fades.
A report on Holocaust memory, justice, and family history.
An investigative report on the hidden networks that support abortion access after Roe and the risks they face. It reveals both the systems of care and the urgency around them.
An investigative report on the hidden networks supporting abortion access after Roe.
A poetry collection that braids desire, performance, and Black queer embodiment through multiple voices. Intimacy and menace meet in a vivid set of variations.
A poetry collection of desire, performance, and Black queer embodiment in many voices.
A debut poetry collection that returns to loss, desire, and the Black female body through sensuous, disciplined language. Pain and beauty become a form of reclamation.
A debut collection of poems about loss, desire, and the Black female body.
A formally experimental work that moves between poetry and drama to reimagine Joan of Arc through climate anxiety and wit. Faith and apocalypse are refreshed by restless imagination.
A genre-bending, climate-anxious reimagining of Joan of Arc.