The Whiting Foundation honored an accomplished bunch of poets, journalists, fiction writers, and dramatists at its annual awards ceremony at the New York Historical Society on Wednesday.
Every year, the Whiting Foundation awards 10 up-and-coming writers with a substantial award, and by the time this year’s winners gathered on Wednesday, most of them were still a little dazed by the honor, which comes with a $50,000 cash prize.
The Whiting Awards are best known for their uncanny ability to recognize writers who will eventually become some of the best known people in their fields, includingOcean Vuong, Sigrid Nunez, Mary Karr, Tony Kushner,Recipients have gone on to win Pulitzers, National Book Awards, Guggenheim fellowships, and MacArthur “genius” grants. In 2011, the awards recognized playwright and actorPeter Pennoyer,
the president of the foundation’s board of trustees, mentioned that possibility during his speech explaining the purpose of the awards. “One or two of the winners may even become a celebrity, but that is not the object of the game, because that’s something other people do to you,” he said. “What these awards are designed to do is to encourage you to go out and produce something that will be wonderful for yourselves.
The annual award ceremony is a bit like a literary cotillion, and winners travel from near and far to attend two days of events where they get to know one another and are introduced to a collection of literary luminaries. The journey was fairly easy fora fiction writer and high school English teacher, who lives in the Bronx. The judges praised his debut collection of short stories,for representing “voices with a reporter’s careful ear” and recording “them with a fiction writer’s unguarded heart.
—with a ribbon bow around his neck and a wide-brimmed black hat. In a casual polo at a luncheon the next day, Blount explained that by day he works in the advertising industry. “But my real job is poetry,” he said.
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