Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction
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:
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