Winner Rick Barot for Chord (Sarabande Books) Read an excerpt » The PEN Open Book Award, formerly the Beyond Margins Awards, invites submissions of book-length writings by authors of color, published… More

Winner Nancy Princenthal for Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames & Hudson) Read an excerpt » The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of… More

WinnerBranden Jacobs-JenkinsThree awards from PEN and the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater honor a Grand Master of American Theater, a mid-career playwright with an outstanding voice, and an… More

WinnerYoung Jean LeeThree awards from PEN and the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater honor a Grand Master of American Theater, a mid-career playwright with an outstanding voice, and… More

WinnerLynn Nottage Three awards from PEN and the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater honor a Grand Master of American Theater, a mid-career playwright with an outstanding voice, and… More

Winner Lauren Redniss for Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future (Random House) Read an excerpt» The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on… More

WinnerJean Guerrero for "Crux" (Available for Publication)The PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize is an annual award that recognizes a promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses… More

WinnerLisa Ko for "The Leavers" (Forthcoming from Algonquin Books)The Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver and is funded entirely by her, was created to promote… More

Winner Toni Morrison The PEN/Saul Bellow Award goes to a living American author whose scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or her in the highest rank… More

WinnerMia Alvar for In the Country: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf)Read an excerpt » The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection… More