Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction
Each year this prize honors new fiction published by the literary journal, Ploughshares. Winners are announced in each year's Spring issue and receive a $2,500 prize. Learn more about the award and view previous winners here.
Winners:
2024: Jen Silverman, “In the Next World, Maybe”/ 2024
2023: Molly Aiken, “Thresholds” / Spring 2023
2022: Kashona Notah, “Bettie Page and Jimmy Free Bird” / Winter 2022-2023
2021: Fei Sun, “Half Bowl of Mengpo’s Soup” / Winter 2021-2022
2020: Kaitlyn Greenidge, "Doers of the Word" / Summer 2020
2019: Mario Alberto Zambrano, "Some of You" / Spring 2019
2018: Dantiel W. Moniz, "Milk Blood Heat" / Spring 2018
2017: Victor LaValle, "Spectral Evidence" / Summer 2017
2016: Viet Dinh, "Lucky Dragon" / Summer 2016
2015: Ramona Ausubel, "Fresh Water from the Sea" / Summer 2015
2014: Nick Arvin, "The Crying Man" / Fall 2014
2013: Elise Juska, "Transfer Station" / Spring 2013
2012: Karl Taro Greenfeld, "Strawberries" / Winter 2012-2013