The Annual Charles Angoff Awards

This cash award, named in honor of The Literary Review’s editor from 1957-1976, is supported by family, friends, and colleagues of the late Charles Angoff. It recognizes his initiative in helping to found TLR, his encouragement of excellence in writing, and his own achievements as a poet, essayist, and novelist.

Year Author Title(s) Issue
2007 Stephanie Paulsell "Annunciation" E Winter 2007
Mary Rose O'Reilley "A Week Without God: North Shore" P Winter 2007
2006 Aimee Pokwatka "The Museum of Lost and Found" F Summer 2006
Fiona Sampson "The Looking Glass" and "Clay Again" P Summer 2006
Debra Wierenga "Deep Field" P Spring 2006
2005 Alison Lee Kinney "Term" F Summer 2005
Joyelle McSweeney "The Girl's School" P Summer 2005
2004 D. Nurske “Lament for the Makers of Brooklyn” P Winter 2004
  Leonard Chang “Knives” F Spring 2004
2003 Jeffrey Renard Allen “Holding Pattern” F Summer 2003
  Michael Morse “Quo Journal: Cardinalized” and “Quo Journal: Just As They Are” P Fall 2002
  Richard Hoffman “Pictures of Boyhood” F Summer 2002
2002 Laura Hird “Meat” F Winter 2002
  John Burnside “Animals” and “Of Gravity and Light” P Winter 2002
2001 Rick Mulkey “Quantum Flux” P Summer 2001
  Pamela Erens “Gaarg. Gaarrgh. Gak” F Summer 2001
  Kathleen Crowley “Listening for Carl” F Spring 2001
2000 Anne Carroll Fowler “Raking” P Summer 2000
  Susan Schwartz Senstad “Ground Zero;” “Seed of Patriots and Heroes;” and “Zero” (three chapters from the novel Music for the Third Ear) F Fall 1999
  Joanna Goodman “Falser Certainty” P Fall 1999
  Rachel S. Klein “Beatrice: The Sacrifice” F Summer 1999
  Alex Mindt “Stories of the Hunt” F Summer 1999
1999 Alvin Greenberg “Glacier” P Winter 1999
1998 Ron Tanner “A Handful of Nails” F Summer 1998
  Renee Ashley “First Book of the Moon” P Fall 1997
  Melita Schaum “Grace” F Fall 1997
1997 Todd Pierce “Young Life, Made Easy” F Winter 1997
  Kevin Clark “The Gift” P Winter 1997
1996 Robert Wexelblatt “Heiberg’s Twitch” F Spring 1996
  Debbie Lee Wesselmann “Stone Daughter” F Spring 1996
1995 Christian A. Abouzeid “Manneken” F Spring 1995
1994 Irvin Faust “Black Auxiliaries” F Summer 1994
1993 Mary F. Chen “Knuckles” F Winter 1993
1993 Susan Moon “Safe Sex” F Fall 1992
1992 Andrew J. Dephteros “Honor and Shame” F Spring 1992
1991 Henry H. Roth “Misfortune” F Winter 1991
1990 George Looney “Breaking the Surface” P Winter 1990
  Jane Bradley “Power Lines” F Winter 1990
  Anthony Bukoski “The Eve of the First” F Spring 1990
  Paul Genega “Good” P Winter 1989
1989 Tom Hansen “Poem of Falling Snow” P Fall 1988
1988 Steve Yarbrough “Sara” F Summer 1988
  Thomas E. Kennedy “Years in Kaldar” F Spring 1988
1988 William Doreski “Brockway Gorge” P Winter 1988
1997 David Hopes “The Saint Francis Poems” P Summer 1987
  Eamon Grennan “Jewel Box” P Fall 1986
  Eileen Drew “Cropped” F Fall 1986
  Patricia Eakins “The Hungry Girls” F Fall 1986
1987 John Bovey “The Calculus” F Summer 1987
1996 Marcia Tager “Song from the Highest Tower” F Fall 1985
  John Linthicum “Epistle of Mother Teresa to the Holy Father” P Spring 1986
  Eileen Pollack “Xylem and Phloem” F Spring 1986
1986 T. Alan Broughton “Ice Fisher” P Winter 1986
1985 David Wagoner “Securing a House” P Summer 1985
1984 John Griesemer “North to South” F Fall 1984
  Geraldine C. Little “Illiminuted Page: Kellsian Fragment in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey” P Fall 1984
  Neil Myers “Death Scenes” P Fall 1984
 

Patricia Haas Stanley

 “The Summer Bed Fugue” (translation of a story by Wolfgang Hildeshiemer) F Spring 1984
  Adam Gussow “Cheever’s Failed Paradise: The Short-Story Stylist as Novelist” E Fall 1983
  Nicholas Rinaldi “The Dead” P  Fall 1983
  Paul Genega  “The Crayfish” P  Winter 1984
1983 Roman Karst “Kafka or the Impossibility of Writing” E Summer 1983
  P.C. Reid “Gawain to Gawain” P Spring 1983
  Christopher Clausen “Czeslaw Milosz: The Exile as Californian” E Spring 1983
  H.E. Francis “At Night the City” F            Spring 1983
  Duane Locke “Ludwig II” P  Fall 1982
  Walter James Miller “Z” P  Fall 1982
1982 James Ferry “Dancing Ducks and Talking Anus” F Fall 1981
  Carol Parikh “The Gunny Sack Boy” F Fall 1981

 

P=Poetry, F=Fiction, E=Essay

     
 


 

 

  

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