PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award

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PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award

The PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award was conferred to unpublished writers for their original short story manuscripts. Each manuscript competed for a $10,000 cash grant and publication at Amazon.com and in The Boston Book Review.

Winner: Marlene Reed Wetzel, “A Map of Tripoli, 1967″ (2000)

Runners-up:

  • Thomas Cockrell
  • Holiday Reinhorn
  • Paul Rusconi