Whiting Awards Announced
The Whiting Writers' Awards, given to "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise" were announced yesterday. The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation has awarded approximately ten $35,000 awards per year to writers, poets, playwrights and non-fiction writers for twenty years. This year's winners include Daniel Alarco´n, author of the forthcoming short-story collection War by Candlelight, Victor LaValle, author of The Ecstatic, and Allison Glock for her memoir, Beauty Before Comfort.