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Prizes Awarded by The Sewanee Review

The most important prize administered by the Sewanee Review is the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry. It was made possible through the generous bequest of Dr. K. P. A. Taylor to celebrate his younger brother Conrad Aiken's accomplishments as a poet.

In the fall of 2007, the twenty-first Aiken Taylor Award was presented to Anne Stevenson. 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.Just this year the Walter Sullivan Prize was 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.

2007 Award Winnners

The Robert B. Heilman Prize for excellence in book reviewing for 2006 is awarded to:

Ann E. Berthoff, of Concord, Massachusetts, for exemplary service all year.

The Walter Sullivan Prize for achievement in fiction 2007 is awarded for the first time to:

Algis Valiunas, of Boyton Beach, Florida, for "In Another Country," from the fall issue.

The Allen Tate Poetry Prize for the finest poetry published last year in this magazine goes to:

Floyd Collins, of Quincy, Illinois, for "Santa Anna's Spurs," from the fall issue.

The Andrew Lytle Prize for the best story published in this magazine in 2007 is awarded to:

Josh Goldfaden, of San Clemente, California, for "Looking at Animals," published in our spring issue.

The Monroe K. Spears Prize for the finest essays published in this magazine in 2007 is awarded to:

Wilfred Stone, of Stanford, California, for "The Balloon Man," published in our winter issue.