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2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to an American Playwright in Mid-Career Award went to Theresa Rebeck, whose works include Mauritius, The Water’s Edge, and The Scene.The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama recognize a master American… More
2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama to a Master American Dramatist
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to a Master Playwright went to David Mamet, best known for his plays American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, andGlengarry Glen Ross.The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama recognize a master… More
2011 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerThe 2011 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing went to George Dohrmann for Play Their Hearts Out (Ballantine Books).The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles… More
Kite to Kierkegaard
But there is no wisdom / That needs to be shouted / Whispering it blisters / A capriccio in braille. More
2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction will go to Don DeLillo. The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a distinguished living American author of… More
The Destitute
The / ceiling hovers like a heavy mist, / dark and putrid, thick and barbed, / chocking any head held high. More
Chessman’s Lunch
I poke at my salad, / sip water from a plastic cup / my corner fiefdom overrun now by strangers / a compromised rook / removed from the board More
2007 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
WinnerPeter Covino, author of the poetry collection, Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005), published by New Issues, and a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn AwardThe PEN/Joyce… More
2010 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowships for Writers
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers went to Paul Harding for his novel Tinkers.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
2007 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writers Fellowship
WinnerDiane Les Becquets, author of the forthcoming novel Genesis, to be published by Bloomsbury USAThe PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure… More
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