Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Awards:

2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. $100,000. Winner: Fanny Howe.
Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism. $10.0,000. Winner: Ange Minko.

NEA 2009 Poetry Out Loud National Champion. $20,000. Winner: High School Student William Farley.

A Room of Her Own’s Fifth Annual Gift of Freedom Award. $50,000. Winner: Barb Johnson.

A Room of Her Own’s Orlando Prizes. $1,000. Winners:

Faith Scott, Poetry, “Negrita”
Page Lambert, Nonfiction, “These Things I Can Love”
Jennifer Woodworth, Sudden Fiction, “The Rings”
Leslie C. Youngblood, Short Fiction, “Smoking Demon”

2009 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize. $40,000. Winner: David Mason.

University of Arkansas Press Inaugural Miller Williams Poetry Prize. $5,000 and Publication. Winner: Michael Walsh for The Dirt Riddles. Judge: Enid Shomer.

2009 Poet’s Prize. $3,000. Winner: Ellen Bryant Voight for Messenger: Selected Poems 1976-2006.

Binghamton University Book Awards:

2009 Milt Kessler Poetry Award. $1,000. Winner: Ruth Stone for What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems. Judge: Jim Haba.
2009 John Gardner Fiction Award. $1,000. Winner: Julia Glass for I See You Everywhere. Judge: Laura Boss.
2009 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. $2,000 and Publication. Winner: Christopher Buckley.

George Mason University 2009 Spring Creative Writing Contest
Winners:

Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, Poetry Winner: Emily Viggiano
Mark Craver Poetry Award Winner: Robb St. Lawrence
Honorable Mention: Amy Garrett Brown
Virginia Downs Poetry Award Winner: Ellie Tipton
Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Award Winner: Ethan Edwards
Honorable Mention: Amy Garrett Brown & Angie Mazakis
Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, Fiction Winner: Rebecca McGill
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Eshelman, Corey Beasley, &
Priyanka Champaneri
Dan Rudy Fiction Award Winner: Nicole Lee
Honorable Mention: Tim Rowe
Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Award Winner: Sara Flood
Honorable Mention: Priyanka Champaneri
Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, Nonfiction Winner: Judy Adkins

10th Annual Gival Press Poetry Prize. $1,000 and Publication. Winner: Rich Murphy for Voyeur. Judge: Richard Carr.

Pushcart Prize for Story. Inclusion in 2010 Anthology. Winner: Austin Bunn.

The Independent Publisher Book Award in Poetry, Gold Medal. Publication by Lost Horse Press. Winner: Patricia Goedicke.

The Center for Book Arts 2009 Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition. $1,000 and Publication. Winner: Bonnie Jo Campbell. Judges: Sharon Dolin and Kim Addonizio.

Glimmer Train May Short Story Award for New Writers. Winners:

First place: Noa Jones, $1,200 for “Brother Ron.” Ppublication in the Fall 2010 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.  
Second place: Farley Urmston, $500 for “Pretending.”
Third place: Benjamin Janse, $300 for “The Great Storm.”