2008 Contest Winners
The Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction
| Final Judge | Steven Kuusisto |
| 1st Place | Lauren Smith Traore, of Whitewater, WI “The Widow’s Tale” |
| Runners-Up | Ona Gritz |
| Finalists | Mardi Link, Anisse Gross, Natalie Serber, Cate Hennessey, Kay Sather, Liz Stephens |
49th Parallel Award for Poetry
| Final Judge | Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
| 1st Place | Kaveh Bassiri, of Bronxville, NY “Invention of God”" |
| Runners-Up | Kate Buckley |
| Finalists | Jonathan Rice, Susan Rich, Rae Gouirand, Lauren Smith Traore, Elisa Pulido, Harold Bauld, Tua Chaudhuri, Annie S. Doran |
Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction
| Final Judge | Ann Pancake |
| 1st Place | Edward O’Connell, of Bellingham, WA “The Hunting Horn” |
| Runners-Up | Margarite Landry |
| Finalists | Nicholas Maistros, Micah Nathan, Jacob Appel, Tom Smith, Donna L. Trump, Meaghan Mulholland, Eugene Cross, Heather Jacobs |