Fiction — Elwin Cotman (Whiting Award 2025)Elwin Cotman

Fiction — Elwin Cotman (Whiting Award 2025)

Whiting Award · 2025 · Winner

Whiting FoundationApril 1, 2025Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Whiting Award	2025	Winner	“Fiction — Elwin Cotman”

About This Book

Elwin Cotman is recognized for his fiction — including the story collections Hard Times Blues and Dance on Saturday — for his afrofuturist and speculative explorations of Black American experience in the Ohio Valley region. This record is a writer-level placeholder for his Whiting Award.

About the Author

Elwin CotmanAmerican

Elwin Cotman is a storyteller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several collections of speculative short stories including Dance on Saturday, which was a Philip K. Dick Award finalist and NPR Best Book of the Year, Hard Times Blues, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, and Weird Black Girls. Read more →