2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. $25,000, Publication by Penguin.
Winner: Bill Loehfeim for Fresh Kills. Contest Hosted by: Amazon.com, Penguin Group, and HP.

2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Winners. $50,000 each.
International Winner: John Ashbery for Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, HarperCollins Publishers/Ecco. Canadian Winner: Robin Blaser for The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser, University of California Press. Judges: George Bowering, James Lasdun, and Pura López Colomé.

2008 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. $1,000.
Winner: Clayton Eshleman for The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo, The University of California Press 2007.Judge: Tony Earley.

2008 Juniper Prize for Poetry. $1,500, Publication by The University of Massachusetts Press.
Winner: L.S. Klatt for his collection Interloper.

2008 Juniper Prize for Fiction. $1,500, Publication by The University of Massachusetts Press.
Winner: Daniel A, Hoyt for his collection A Story of Family.

2008-2009 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows:
Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow: Jill Osier, (MFA, University of Alaska-Fairbanks)
Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow: Traci Brimhall, (MFA, Sarah Lawrence University)
Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow: Stuart Nadler, (MFA, University of Iowa)
Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow: Amanda Rea, (MFA, University of California-Irvine)
James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow: Andrew Milward, (MFA, University of Iowa)
Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship (open only to University of Wisconsin MFA graduates): Emma Straub, (MFA in Fiction, Class of 2008).
The 2009 Carl Djerassi Distinguished Fellow in Playwriting: Michael Weller

15th Annual Boston Review Fiction Contest.
Winner: Patricia Engel for “Desaliento.” Judges: Junot Diaz and Chris Abani.

Reed Magazine Prizes.
Winners: The John Steinbeck Award for the Short Story ($1,000) 2008: Renato Escudero for “Barrio Exorcism.” The Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry ($500) 2008: Carl Auerbach “On Charity,” “On Love,” and “The Problem of Evil.”

Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Contest. $500, Publication by Pavement Saw Press, and 50 Copies.
Winner: Noah Eli Gordon for Acoustic Experience. Judge: David Baratier.

Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. $1,000.
Winner: Albert Goldbarth for his collection The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972-2007, Graywolf Press. Judge: Denise Duhamel.

2008 New Issues Poetry Prize. $2,000 and Publication.
Winner: Justin Marks for A Million in Prizes. Judge: Carl Phillips.

2008 Pinch Journal Annual Contest Winners.
Fiction: First place winner: Anne Leigh Parrish for “Surrogate”; Second place winner: Jacob Appel for “Pollen”; Third place winner: David Williams for “Strange Things Happening Every Day.” Poetry: First place winner: Rebecca Patrascu for “I am in Love with Old Men”; Second place winner: Pat Keller for “Group Therapy”; Third place winner: Mark Wagenaar for “The Alchemist’s Notebook.” Judges: Jason Brown, Fiction; Sandra Meek, Poetry.

New Millennium Writing Awards. $1,000 and Publication.
Poetry Winner: Harry Bauld for “Alaska.” Nonfiction Winners: Ralph Ryan for “Wildfire, Hellfire” and M. Norman Risch for “The Day My Son Died.” Short-Short Fiction Winner: Susan Chiavelli for “Winter Oranges.”

9th Annual Gival Press Poetry Award-2007. $1,000, Publication, and 20 copies.
Winner: Richard Carr for Honey. Judge: Barbara Louise Ungar.