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Since 1985, the foundation has had a mission to nurture “new
creations” by supporting poets, playwrights and authors of
fiction and nonfiction. Past winners have included Tony Kushner,
André Aciman and Tracy K. Smith.
This week, the foundation announced its class of 2025. Elwin
Cofman writes speculative fiction that Whiting judges say offers
“illuminating sites of bawdy humor and horror,” while Karisma
Price crafts post-Katrina poems that are “songs, howls,
portraits, critiques.” Judges praised the essays of Aisha
Sabatini Sloan for their “startling connections between the
personal and the collective.”
The other winners were dramatist Liza Birkenmeier, fiction
writers Samuel Kọ́láwọlé, Shubha Sunder and Claire Luchette,
graphic fiction writer Emil Ferris, poet Annie Wenstrup and
nonfiction writer Sofi Thanhauser.
“These writers demonstrate astounding range; each has invented
the tools they needed to carve out their narratives and worlds,”
Courtney Hodell, Whiting’s director of literary programs, said
in a statement. “Taken as a whole, their work shows a sharply
honed sensitivity to our history, both individual and
collective, and a passionate curiosity as to where a deeper
understanding of that history can take us.”
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