Eliza Anderson, Playwriting, Independent
John Gregory Brown, Fiction, Sweet Briar College
Pearl Cleage, Playwriting, Spelman College
Jennifer C. Cornell, Fiction, Oregon State University
Jean T. Day, Poetry, Independent
Peter Gizzi, Poetry, University of California, Santa Cruz
Shelley Jackson, Fiction, Independent
Donald Judson, Fiction, Independent
Peter Gale Nelson, Poetry, Brown University
Melissa Pritchard, Fiction, Arizona State University
Marjorie Welish, Poetry, Pratt Institute