Ten emerging writers, from an author of Fiction Speculative to a poet rooted in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, have received subsidies of $ 50,000 from the Whiting Foundation
New York – Ten emerging writers, from an author of Fiction Speculative to a poet rooted in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, have received subsidies of $ 50,000 from the Whiting Foundation.
Since 1985, the Foundation has had the mission of nourishing “new creations” by supporting poets, playwrights and fiction and non -fiction authors. The previous winners have included Tony Kushner, André Aciman and Tracy K. Smith.
This week, the Foundation announced its 2025 class. Elwin Cofman writes speculative fiction that Whiting judges say that it offers “lighting sites of obscene humor and horror”, while the price of karisma creates poems after the katrina that are “songs, howls, portraits, criticisms.” The judges praised the essays of Aisha Sabatini Sloan for their “surprising connections between the personal and the collective.”
The other winners were the playwright Liza Birkenmeier, the fiction writers Samuel Kọláwọlé, Shubha Sunder and Claire Luchette, the fiction writer Emil Ferris, the poet Annie Wenstrup and the non -fiction writer Sofi Thanhauser.
“These writers demonstrate an amazing range; each one has invented the tools they needed to forge their stories and worlds,” said Courtney Hodell, director of Whiting Literary Programs, in a statement. “Taken as a whole, his work shows a very perfected sensitivity to our history, both individual and collective, and a passionate curiosity in where we can bring us a deeper understanding of that story.”
