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2015 PEN/ ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing

WinnerJohn Branch, Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard (W. W. Norton & Company)The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible… More

2015 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award

Winner Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown) The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award is a biennial award given to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing… More

2015 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

WinnerJoshua Horwitz, War of the Whales: A True Story (Simon & Schuster)The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical… More

2015 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship

WinnerStephanie Keuhn for The Pragmatist (Forthcoming from Dutton/ Penguin Books)The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure of financial sustenance in order to make… More

2015 PEN/ Fusion Emerging Writers Prize

WinnerAdriana E. Ramírez for her manuscript Dead Boys The PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize is an annual award that recognizes a promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that… More

2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize

WinnerJack Livings for The Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement… More