AWARDS

AWARDS
10 authors honored
NEW YORK (AP) -- Five fiction authors, three poets and two playwrights are winners of the 18th annual Whiting Writers' Awards, given to "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise."
Honorees receive $35,000 each.
Previous winners include Tony Kushner, Jonathan Franzen and Katha Pollitt.
Among those cited this year were Justin Cronin, a Philadelphia-based novelist whose debut work, "Mary and O'Neil," won a PEN Hemingway Award; New York-based playwright Melissa James Gibson, winner of an Obie award for "(sic)"; and poet Elizabeth Arnold, a Washington, D.C., resident and author of "The Reef."