Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Prize winners
The Porter Prize to 34 poets, novelists, non-fiction writers and playwrights since 1985.
■ 2017: Padma Viswanathan, fiction.
■ 2016: Sandy Longhorn, poetry.
■ 2015: Davis McCombs, poetry.
■ 2014: Mara Leveritt, non-fiction.
■ 2013: Pat Carr, fiction.
■ 2012: Margaret Jones Bolsterli, non-fiction.
■ 2011: Bill Harrison, fiction.
■ 2010: Bob Ford, playwriting.
■ 2009: Roy Reed, non-fiction.
■ 2008: Trenton Lee Stewart, fiction.
■ 2007: Greg Brownderville, poetry.
■ 2006: Donald “Skip” Hays, fiction.
■ 2005: Shirley Abbott, non-fiction.
■ 2005: Constance Merritt, poetry.
■ 2004: Michael Burns, poetry.
■ 2003: Kevin Brockmeier, fiction.
■ 2002: Ralph Burns, poetry.
■ 2001: Morris Arnold, non-fiction
■ 2001: Fleda Brown, poetry.
■ 2000: Jo McDougall, poetry.
■ 1999: Grif Stockley, fiction.
■ 1998: Michael Heffernan, poetry.
■ 1997: Dennis Vannatta, fiction.
■ 1996: David Jauss, fiction.
■ 1995: Norman Lavers, fiction.
■ 1994: Werner Trieschmann, playwriting.
■ 1993: No prize was awarded.
■ 1992: Andrea Hollander Budy, poetry.
■ 1991: Crescent Dragonwagon, fiction.
■ 1990: James Twiggs, fiction.
■ 1989: Hope Norman Coulter, fiction.
■ 1988: Paul Lake, poetry.
■ 1987: Donald Harington, fiction.
■ 1986: Buddy Nordan, fiction.
■ 1985: Leon Stokesbury, poetry.