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2016 PEN/Voelcker Award
Winner Ed Roberson The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, established by a bequest from Hunce Voelcker, this award is given to a poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to… More
2016 PEN Open Book Award
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
2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
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
2016 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an Emerging American Playwright
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
2016 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Playwright in Mid-Career
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
2016 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist
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
2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
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
2016 PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize
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for Publication)The PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize is an annual award that recognizes a promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses… More
2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Winner Ta-Nehisi Coates for Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau/Random House) Read an excerpt » The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity… More
2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction
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
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