The Devil's Kitchen Reading Awards are given every year at the Devil's Kitchen Fall Literary Festival at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.[1] The prize was first given in 2005. From 2005-2014, there were two prizes given each year, one in poetry and one in prose. Starting in 2015, there were three categories: poetry, prose fiction, and prose non-fiction.[2] The judges for the award are drawn from the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at SIU.
| Year | Poetry | Prose | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | James Richardson | Mary Troy | |
| 2006 | Susanna Childress | ||
| 2007 | Kerry Bakken | ||
| 2008 | Jennifer Perrine | Josh Goldfaden | |
| 2009 | David Kirby | Donald Pollock | |
| 2010 | Rhett Iseman Trull | Jennine Crucet | |
| 2011 | Jerry Williams | Alyson Hagy | |
| 2012 | Katie Chaple | Patricia McNair | |
| 2013 | Stevie Edwards | Mark Brazaitis | |
| 2014 | Victoria Redel |
| Year | Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | David Tomas Martinez | Megan Milks | Ben Tanzer | |
| 2016 | Emily O'Neill | Jacob M. Appel | Michelle Herman | |
| 2017 | Brian Fanelli | Alexander Weinstein | Donna Kaz |