Emma Wippermann, Mia Chung.
NEW YORK CITY: The Whiting Foundation has named the ten winners of the 2023 Whiting Awards, together with Mia Chung for drama and Emma Wippermann for poetry and drama. Recipients every obtain a $50,000 financial award.
“Every year we look to the new Whiting Award winners, writing fearlessly at the edge of imagination, to reveal the pathways of our thought and our acts before we know them ourselves,” Courtney Hodell, director of literary applications on the Whiting Foundation, stated in an announcement. “The prize is meant to create a space of ease in which such transforming work can be made.”
The Whiting Awards had been offered at ceremony earlier tonight with a keynote by Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar. Winners will even current at a studying on March 30 on the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn.
Chung’s play Catch as Catch Can was just lately produced at Playwrights Horizons. Her work has been produced by Page 73, the Public Theater, the National Asian American Theatre Company, and the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, in addition to the Royal Court Theatre within the U.Okay. and the National Theatre Center of Korea. Her performs have been revealed by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama and Theatre Communications Group. Chung is an alum of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and New Dramatists, and has obtained a number of awards, commissions, and residencies. She holds levels from Yale University, Brown University, and Trinity College Dublin.
Wippermann is a New York-based author whose work Pleasure as a Series of Objects was revealed by Patient Sounds in 2019. Her drama Joan of Arkansas, which follows a teen tasked by God to make sure that an Arkansas Republican presidential candidate adopts radical local weather insurance policies, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. Wippermann’s work has additionally appeared within the Quietus, Temporary Art Review, and the SAND Journal, amongst others.
Other Whiting Award recipients for 2023 embody Tommye Blount and Ama Codjoe for poetry; Marcia Douglas, Sidik Fofana, and Carribean Fragoza for fiction, in addition to R. Kikuo Johnson for graphic fiction; and Linda Kinstler and Stephania Taladrid for nonfiction.
The Whiting Awards acknowledge early-career achievements and empower recipients to satisfy the promise of remarkable literary works to come back. They have awarded $9.5 million in awards since 1985. All award nominators and judges are invited by the Whiting Foundation, which gives focused help for writers and students, and work anonymously.