The Society offers an annual prize of $500 for the best work published in the William Carlos Williams Review in a given year. The prize is possible through the generosity of W. Scott Peterson – the first scholar to publish a book-length study of Paterson – who remains an active supporter of all things WCW.
Past Recipients of the Walter Scott Peterson Prize include
2024: Richard Ratzan, for “Ambiguity in the Short Fiction of William Carlos Williams” in volume 41, number 2
2023: Florian Gargaillo, for “Invisible Labor in William Carlos Williams” in volume 40, number 2
2022: Sam Hushagen, for “William Carlos William and the Traditions of Georgic” in volume 39, number 2
2020: Kate Schnur, for “Mechanical Labor and Fleshy Births: Maternal Resistance in Mina Loy and William Carlos Williams” in volume 37, number 1
2019: Ciarán O’Rourke, for “Pictures from Jutland: Placing the Poetries of Seamus Heaney and William Carlos Williams” in volume 36, number 1
2016: Eric Keenaghan, for “The Impersonal Is Political: On the Living Theatre and William Carlos Williams’s Many Loves” in volume 33
2015: Peter Halter, for “The Poem on the Page, or the Visual Poetics of Williams Carlos Williams” in volume 32
