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In the fall of 2010, the twenty-fourth Aiken Taylor Award was presented to Louise Glück. Ms. Glück follows Donald Hall, John Haines, and Anne Stevenson in receiving this honor. Click here to learn more about this prize.

The Sewanee Review gives five annual prizes for the best book reviewer, the best piece of fiction, the best verse, the best criticism, and the best essay published in the magazine during that year. Established in 1983, the Andrew Lytle Prize in fiction is the oldest prize given by the Sewanee Review. In 1991, the Monroe K. Spears Prize was endowed, and three years later, in 1994, the Robert B. Heilman Prize. It was not until 1999 that a poetry prize was funded, the Allen Tate Prize. The Walter Sullivan Prize was recently instituted for the best criticism or the best fiction by a promising writer. The advisory editors of the Sewanee Review select the annual winners. The magazine currently sponsors no contests, and none of its prizes can be applied for.

2010 Award Winnners

The Robert B. Heilman Prize for excellence in book reviewing is being awarded to:

Phillip Parotti, of Silver City, New Mexico.  Mr. Parotti has been contributing to the Sewanee Review for over twenty years.

The Andrew Nelson Lytle Prize for best story published in 2011 is being awarded to:

Jeffrey N. Johnson, of Alexandria, Virginia, for “Lost Among the Hedgerows” in our fall issue.

The Monroe K. Spears Prize for the finest essay published in 2011 is being awarded to:

Earl Rovit, of New York, New York, for “Literary Lives” in our spring issue.  Mr. Rovit has contributed to the magazine since 1985.

The Allen Tate Poetry Prize for finest poetry published in 2011 is being awarded to:

Marc Hudson, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, for “Letter to Miranda” in our summer issue.