Y’all Aint Here To Be Rehabilitated
Lyle May was awarded 3rd Place in Nonfiction Essay in the 2022 Prison Writing Contest. Every year, hundreds of imprisoned people from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and… More
Visiting the Blues: 2021 Prison Writing Awards Anthology
Visiting the Blues is an incredible collection of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama written during one of the toughest moments in our over-incarcerated nation’s history. More
Breathe into the Ground: 2020 Prison Writing Awards Anthology
The 2020 Anthology, titled Breathe into the Ground, is an impressive collection of poetry, nonfiction, and drama from incarcerated writers in the United States. More
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award will go to the author of a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit. More
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature. More
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of biography. More
PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
The PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award celebrates literary excellence on the subject of the physical or biological sciences. More
PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History
The PEN/Jean Stein Grant recognizes a literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. More
2018 PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History
The PEN/Jean Stein Grant recognizes a literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. More
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