(This award is offered every other year, in odd-numbered years.)
1993 Peter Stitt, Gettysburg Review
1995 Herbert Leibowitz, Parnassus
1997 Wendy Lesser, The Threepenny Review
1999 Stan Lindberg, Georgia Review
2001 Askold Melnyczuk, AGNI
2003 Robert Fogarty, Antioch Review
2005 Willard Spiegelman, Southwest Review
2007 Bradford Morrow,Conjunctions
2009 Hannah Tinti, One Story
2011 Brigid Hughes, A Public Space
2013 Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery, Mother Jones
2015 Rob Spillman, Tin House
2017 Michael Archer & Joel Whitney, Guernica