The nonprofit Whiting Foundation just announced the winners of its 2025 Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress. The $40,000 prizes are given “to writers in the process of completing a book of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction.” In addition, recipients will receive guidance on marketing their books from Press Shop PR’s sister company, Book Publicity School.

This year’s winners are:

• Paul Bogard, How to See the Sky: The Newest Science, the Oldest Questions, and Why They Matter for Life (HarperOne)
• Jason Cherkis, The Attempters: The Science and Struggle of Suicidality (Random House)
• S.C. Cornell, The Migrant and the Murderer: A True Story (Penguin Press)
• Caitlin Dickerson, Deported: The Hidden Toll of American Expulsion (Random House)
• Elena Dudum, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful (One Signal)
• Grace Elizabeth Hale, They Don’t Own Us: Harlan County, Kentucky and the Past and Future of American Workers (Mariner Books)
• Will Harris, Need Is Need (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Both and Neither (Doubleday)
• Avi Steinberg, Grace Paley: A Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Raksha Vasudevan, Empires Between Us: Estrangement and Kinship Across Three Continents (Graywolf Press)

Created more than 50 years ago by Flora Ettlinger Whiting, the Whiting Foundation seeks to support the arts and humanities through education and grantmaking. Learn more about its history here.