Fellowship Awards

The Fellowship holds its biennial Awards Convocation as part of the Conference on Southern Literature. Presently, 9 prizes are awarded. These are:

  1. The Hillsdale Prize for Fiction
  2. The Hanes Prize for Poetry
  3. The Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction
  4. The Bryan Family Foundation Award for Drama
  5. The Cecil Woods, Jr. Prize for Non-Fiction
  6. The Fellowship's New Writing Award for Fiction
  7. The James Still Award for Writing About the Appalachian South
  8. The Fellowship's New Award for Poetry
  9. The Cleanth Brooks Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Southern Letters

AWARD WINNERS 

Hillsdale Prize for Fiction

  • Robert Bausch, 2005
  • Mary Ward Brown, 2003
  • Percival Everett, 2001
  • Bobbie Ann Mason, 1999
  • Lewis Nordan, 1997
  • William Hoffman, 1995
  • Josephine Humphreys, 1993
  • Richard Bausch, 1991
  • Ellen Douglas, 1989


Hanes Prize for Poetry
  • Betty Adcock, 2005
  • R.H.W. Dillard, 2003
  • Rodney Jones, 2001
  • T.R. Hummer, 1999
  • Yusef Komunyakaa, 1997
  • Andrew Hudgins, 1995
  • Ellen Bryant Voigt, 1993
  • Robert Morgan, 1991
  • Kelly Cherry, 1989


Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction
  • David Madden, 2005
  • Donald Harington, 2003
  • Mary Hood, 2001
  • Barry Hannah, 1999
  • Allen Wier, 1997
  • Cormac McCarthy, 1993
  • Lee Smith, 1991


Bryan Family Foundation Award for Drama
  • Jerome Hairston, 2005
  • James McLure, 2003
  • John Henry Redwood, 2001
  • Margaret Edson, 1999
  • Naomi Wallace, 1997 
  • Pearl Cleage, 1995 
  • Jim Grimsley, 1991


Fellowship's New Writing Award for Poetry
  • Thorpe Moeckel, 2005
  • Julia Johnson, 2003


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Cecil Woods, Jr. Prize for Non-Fiction

  • Franklin Burroughs, 2005
  • Pat C. Hoy II, 2003
  • Hal Crowther, 2001
  • James Everett Kibler, 1999
  • Bailey White, 1997
  • John Shelton Reed, 1995
  • Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., 1991


Fellowship's New Writing Award for Fiction
  • No Award Given, 2005
  • Robert Ashcom, 2003
  • John McManus, 2001
  • Michael Knight, 1999
  • William Henry "Hank" Lewis, 1997


James Still Award for Writing About the Appalachian South
  • Ron Rash, 2005
  • Silas House, 2003
  • George Scarborough, 2001
  • Charles Frazier, 1999
  • James Still, 1997


Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement
  • George Garrett, 2005
  • Horton Foote, 2003
  • Elizabeth Spencer, 2001
  • Shelby Foote, 1999
  • Louis D. Rubin, Jr., 1997
  • Lewis P. Simpson, 1995
  • C. Vann Woodward, 1993
  • Eudora Welty, 1991
  • John Hope Franklin, 1989 



Fellowship's Special Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction

  • Curtis Wilkie, 2005 (This is a one-time award)