The Cohen Awards honor the best short story and poem published in Ploughshares. The awards are sponsored by Denise and Mel Cohen. Finalists are nominated by staff editors, and the winners are selected by the advisory editors. Each winner receives a cash prize of $600.
Poetry: Adrian Blevins, The Waning, Winter 2009-10
Fiction: Andria Nacina Cole, Leaving Women, Spring 2009
Poetry: Tarfia Faizullah, from Interview with a Birangona, Winter 2008-09
Fiction: Steven Schwartz, Bless Everybody, Fall 2008
Poetry: Jennifer Grotz, The Life and Times of George Van Den Heuvel, Winter 2007-08
Fiction: Bret Anthony Johnston, Republican, Fall 2007
Poetry: Victoria Chang, Proof, Spring 2006
Fiction: Joan Wickersham, The Woodwork, Fall 2006
Poetry: R. T. Smith, Dar He, Spring 2005
Fiction: Laura Kasischke, If a Stranger Approaches You about Carrying a Foreign Object with You onto the Plane . . ., Fall 2005
Poetry: Daisy Fried, Shooting Kinesha, Spring 2004
Fiction: Xu Xi, Famine, Winter 2004-05
Poetry: Jane Mead, Was Light, Spring 2003
Fiction: Rebecca Soppe, The Pantyhose Man, Winter 2003-04
Poetry: Scott Withiam, Walk Right In, Spring 2002
Fiction: Joan Silber, The High Road, Fall 2002
Poetry: Caroline Finkelstein, Conjecture Number One Thousand, Fall 2001
Fiction: Julie Orringer, Pilgrims, Spring 2001
Poetry: Adrian C. Louis, This is the Time of Grasshoppers and All That I See is Dying, Winter 2000
Fiction: Elizabeth Graver, The Mourning Door, Fall 2000
Poetry: Jonah Winter, Sestina: Bob, Spring 1999
Fiction: Judith Grossman, How Aliens Think, Spring 1999
Poetry: Herman Fong, Grandfather's Alphabet, Spring 1998
Fiction: Chris Adrian, The Sum of Our Parts, Winter 1998-99
Fiction: Maxine Swann, Flower Children, Fall 1997
Poetry: Mark Doty, Mercy on Broadway, Spring 1997
Poetry: Campbell McGrath, Praia dos Orixas, Winter 1996-97
Fiction: Andrew Sean Greer, Come Live with Me and Be My Love, Fall 1996
Poetry: Louise Glück, Penelope's Stubbornness, Winter 1995-96
Fiction: Janet Desaulniers, After Rosa Parks, Winter 1995-96
Poetry: Mary Ruefle, Glory, Winter 1994-95
Fiction: Marshall N. Klimasewiski, Snowfield, Spring 1994
Nonfiction: Charles Baxter, Dysfunctional Narratives, Fall 1994
Poetry: Cleopatra Mathis, The Story, Winter 1993-94
Fiction: Fred Leebron, Lovelock, Fall 1993
Poetry: Richard Garcia, In the Year 1946, Spring 1992
Fiction: Ron Carlson, Blazo, Spring 1992
Nonfiction: Debra Spark, The Lure of the West, Spring 1992
Poetry: Tess Gallagher, from The Valentine Elegies, Spring 1991
Poetry: Richard McCann, Nights of 1990, Winter 1991-92
Fiction: Eileen Pollack, Neversink, Fall 1991
Nonfiction: Dan Wakefield, Lion: A Memoir of Mark Van Doren, Fall 1991
Poetry: Susan Mitchell, Night Music, Winter 1990-91
Fiction: Carol Roh-Spaulding, Waiting for Mr. Kim, Fall 1990
Nonfiction: William Kittredge, from Hole in the Sky, Winter 1990-91
Poetry: Patricia Traxler, from The Widow's Words, Winter 1989
Poetry: Michael Ryan, A Burglary, Spring 1989
Fiction: Christopher Tilghman, In a Father's Place, Fall 1989
Nonfiction: James Carroll, The Virtue of Writing, Fall 1989
Poetry: Dennis Sampson, The Commandment, Winter 1988
Fiction: Josip Novakovich, The Apple, Fall 1988
Nonfiction: Richard Yates, R.V. Cassill's Clem Anderson, Fall 1988
Poetry: Carol Frost, In Scarecrow's Garden, Spring 1987
Fiction: Linda Bamber, The Time-to-Teach-Jane-Eyre-Again Blues, Fall 1987
Nonfiction: Gerald Shapiro, Evan S. Connell: A Profile, Fall 1986
Poetry: Al Young, from 22 Moon Poems, Fall 1986
Fiction: Mona Simpson, Lonnie Tishman, Spring 1986
Nonfiction: Phillip Lopate, Against Joie de Vivre, Spring 1986
Poetry: Tom Sleigh, Hope, Winter 1984
Fiction: Gerald Duff, Fire Ants, Winter 1984
Nonfiction: Domenic Stansberry, John Gardner: The Return Home, Fall 1984
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