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Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship
- 2009: Brian Turner (Poetry ’96)
The Briar Cliff Review
- 2011: Leslie Barnard (Fiction ’09)
- 2010: Jude Nutter (Poetry ’98)
Dylan Thomas Award (University of Wales)
- 2010: Elyse Fenton (Poetry ’07)
Elizabeth George Foundation
- 2020: Josha Jay Nathan (Fiction ’14)
- 2020: Alyssa Ogi (Poetry ’15)
- 2019: Quinn Lewis (Poetry ’15)
- 2018: Claire Luchette (Fiction ’17)
- 2018: Elyse Fenton (Poetry ’07)
- 2014: Brenden Willey (Fiction ’10)
- 2013: Kirstin Valdez Quade (Fiction ’09)
- 2012: Zondie Zinke (Fiction ’11)
- 2010: Jude Nutter (Poetry ’98)
- 2010: Lysley Tenorio (Fiction ’98)
Fulbright Scholarship to Hungary
- 2010: Dennis “Arlo” Voorhees (Poetry ’09)
Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Darkhan, Mongolia
- 2016: Morgan Thomas (Fiction ’16)
James Laughlin Award
- 2024: Michelle Peñaloza (MFA)
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellows
- 2016: Brian Turner (Poetry ’96)
- 2013: Major Jackson (Poetry ’99)
Narrative Magazine
- 2013: Kirsten Valdez Quade (Fiction ’09)
Philip Levine Prize in Poetry
- 2018: Tina Mozelle Braziel (Poetry ’13)
- 2010: Lory Bedikian (Poetry ’02)
- 2010 Judge: Brian Turner (Poetry ’96)
- 2009 Judge: Garrett Hong (UO Creative Writing Program Professor)
- 2008 Judge: Dorianne Laux (former UO Creative Writing Program Professor)
Provincetown Fine Art Work Center
- 2009: Sara Eliza Johnson (Poetry ’09)
The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award
- 2013: Kirstin Valdez Quade (Fiction ’09)
- 2010: Sara Eliza Johnson (Poetry ’09)
Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Stanford University)
- 2013: Brenden Willey (Fiction ’09)
- 2009: Kirstin Valdez Quade (Fiction ’09)
- 2009: Keetje Kuipers (Poetry ’06)
- 2005: Shimon Tanaka (Fiction ’00)
- 2000: Lysley Tenorio (Fiction ’98)
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship
- James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow
- 2012: Sarah Hulse (Fiction ’12)
- 2002: Miriam Gershow (Fiction ’02)
- 1999: Lysley Tenorio (Fiction ’98)
- Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow
- 2003: Matt Freidson (Fiction ’00)