John C. Zacharis First Book Awards
| 2012 | ||
| Heidy Steidlmayer |
Fowling Piece (Poetry) | Winter 2012-13 |
| 2011 | ||
| Christine Sneed |
Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry (Fiction) | Winter 2011-12 |
| 2010 | ||
| Julia Story |
Post Moxie: Poems (Poetry) | Winter 2010-11 |
| 2009 | ||
| Paul Yoon |
Once the Shore: Stories (Fiction) |
Winter 2009-10 |
| 2008 | ||
| Susan Hutton |
On the Vanishing of Large Creatures (Poetry) | Winter 2008-09 |
| 2007 | ||
| Ander Monson | Other Electricities (Fiction) | Winter 2007-08 |
| 2006 | ||
| Thomas Sayers Ellis | The Maverick Room (Poetry) | Winter 2006-07 |
| 2005 | ||
| Richard McCann | Mother of Sorrows (Fiction) | Winter 2005-06 |
| 2004 | ||
| Mark Turpin | Hammer (Poetry) | Winter 2004 |
| 2003 | ||
| Maile Meloy | Half in Love (Fiction) | Winter 2003 |
| 2002 | ||
| Doreen Gildroy | The Little Field of Self (Poetry) | Winter 2002 |
| 2001 | ||
| Aleksandar Hemon | The Question of Bruno (Fiction) | Winter 2001 |
| 2000 | ||
| Dana Levin | In the Surgical Theatre (Poetry) | Winter 2000 |
| 1999 | ||
| Elizabeth Gilbert | Pilgrims (Fiction) | Winter 1999 |
| 1998 | ||
| David Gewanter | In the Belly (Poetry) | Winter 1998 |
| 1997 | ||
| Carolyn Ferrell | Don't Erase Me (Fiction) | Winter 1997 |
| 1996 | ||
| Kevin Young | Most Way Home (Poetry) | Winter 1996 |
| 1995 | ||
| Debra Spark | Coconuts for the Saint (Fiction) | Winter 1995 |
| 1994 | ||
| Tony Hoagland | Sweet Ruin (Poetry) | Winter 1994 |
| 1993 | ||
| Jessica Treadway | Absent Without Leave (Fiction) | Winter 1993 |
| 1992 | ||
| Allison Joseph | What Keeps Us Here (Poetry) | Winter 1992 |
| 1991 | ||
| David Wong Louie | Pangs of Love (Fiction) | Winter 1991 |
Also see our list of Cohen Award winners, honoring, each year, the best short story and poem published in Ploughshares.
And take a look at the 123 stories, poems, and essays from Ploughshares that have appeared over the last thirty years in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.