Daniel Anderson

• Pushcart Prize for the poem “Thorns. Thistles.” (2005)
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2003)
• Liguria Study Center Residency – Genoa, Italy (Nov 2003)
• Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press (1997)
• New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship for poetry (1995)

Jason Brown

• 2022 Best American Essays for “The Wrong Jason Brown”
• 2020 Maine Literary Award/Maine Book Award in Fiction for A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed
• 2020 Independent Publisher Book Award for A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed
• 2020 Best American Short Stories for “A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed”
• 2019 Pushcart Prize for “The Last Voyage of the Alice B. Toklas”
• 2017 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for the short story from The Missouri Review
• 2015 Foreign Policy Association “Must Read” list for March 2015 for “If I Teach Them, No One Can Stop Them” from Salon
• 2009 NPR Summer Reading Pick for Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work (Chosen by Samantha Hunt)
• 2009 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award 
• 1996 Best American Short Stories for “Driving the Heart”
• 1995 The Mississippi Review, Fiction Prize

Marjorie Celona

• 2023 Canada Council for the Arts: Grant for Professional Creative Writers
• 2022 Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant for The Year of X
• 2020 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, Literary Arts, Portland, OR
• 2019 Millay Colony for the Arts Residency, Austerlitz, NY
• 2018 O. Henry Award (Juror Favorite) for “Counterblast”
• 2018 Visiting Writer-in-Residence, Ohio University, Athens, OH
• 2014 Best Foreign Novel, Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Héroïne (France) for Y
• 2014 Drake University Emerging Writer Award for Y
• 2013 #1 Indie Next Pick from IndieBound for Y
• 2013 Friends of American Writers Award for Y
• 2013 Waterstones 11 Literary Prize (UK) for Y
• 2013 Writers OMI at Ledig House Residency, Ghent, NY
• 2011 Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, Hawthornden Castle, Scotland
• 2010 Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

Matthew Dickman

• APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, All-American Poem for Husbandry
• APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, All-American Poem for Wonderland
• APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, All-American Poem for Mayakovsky’s Revolver
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Geri Doran

• Presidential Fellowship in Humanistic Study, University of Oregon (2020)
• Brown Foundation Fellowship/Maison Dora Maar Residency (2019)
• James Merrill House Writer-in-Residence (2015)
• Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship (2013)
• Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship (2005)
• Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets (2004)
• Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University (2001)

Garrett Hongo

• Aiken Taylor Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry (2022)
• Senior Visiting Writer, American Academy in Rome (2018)
• Fulbright Fellowship (Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, 2012)
• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (Bellagio Study Center, 2005)
• Oregon Book Award for nonfiction (1996)
• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (Bellagio Study Center, 1992)
• Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1990)
• Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (1989)
• National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship (1988 and 1982)
• Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets (1987)

Mat Johnson

• The Invisible Things: 2023 PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award Longlist. Best of the Year selection: Washington Post
• Loving Day: 2016 American Book Award Winner. Best of the year selection by: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Men’s Journal, The Miami Herald, The Denver Post, Slate, The Kansas City Star, San Antonio Express-News, Time Out-New York
• Pym: Best of the year selection by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Times, Salon, National Post, The A.V. Club
• 2011 Dos Passos Prize Winner
• 2008 Best African American Fiction selection
• 2007 USA James Baldwin Fellowship
• 2004 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Best Novel.
• “2003 Five Writers on the Verge” selection, Shout Magazine, February 2003.
• Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing, excerption-  
  Broadway Books, November 2003. 
• “Best Books of 2001” selection, Progressive Magazine, January 2002.
• Discover Great New Writers selection, Barnes & Noble, Fall 2000.
• “Writers to Watch” selection, Interview Magazine, Fall 2000.
• Thomas J. Watson Fellow, conducted twelve-month field research of American Expatriates in Europe and Africa, 1993-1994.

Karen Thompson Walker

• Finalist for The Ken Kesey Award for Fiction (Oregon Book Awards, 2020) 
• Honorable Mention, Lithub Best Books of the Decade (2019)
• Barnes & Noble Discover Awards, Second Place (2013)
• Finalist for Indies Choice Award (2013)
• Finalist for Goodreads Choice Award (2012)
• Waterstones 11 Book Prize (UK) (2012)
• The Writer’s Center First Novel Award (2013)
• BOMB 2007 Fiction Contest Winner (Judged by Amy Hempel)      

Brian Trapp

• Best American Essays (2020)
• Best American Essays (2013)
• Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University
• Taft Fellow at the University of Cincinnati
• He won a 2018 Oregon Arts fellowship in Nonfiction
• Borchardt Scholarship at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference
• Elizabeth George Foundation grant
• Tin House residency
• VCCA residency
• Centrum residency