NEW YORK -- Fiction authors Steven Dunn and Tope Falarin and dramatists Jordan E. Cooper and Sylvia Khoury are among this year's winners of the Whiting Awards, honors with a cash prize of $50,000 that are presented to each of 10 emerging writers.Previous winners of the award, established in 1985 and managed by the Whiting Foundation, include Colson Whitehead, Michael R.