From 1986 through 2010, the Cohen Awards honored the best short story and poem published in the literary journal Ploughshares.
The awards were sponsored by longtime Ploughshares patrons Denise and Mel Cohen.
Each winner received a cash prize of $600.
[1] The journal has since replaced the award with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction.
Michael Ryan, A Burglary, Spring 1989 Richard McCann, Nights of 1990, Winter 1991-92