PEN America Announces Emerging Writers’ Literary Prizes
Today PEN America announced the winners of its emerging writers’ prizes, the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Katherine Seligman
“We need stories, and always have, to help us make sense of the world and the choices we face. . . We find ourselves in those stories.” More
From Newspaper Clipping to Award-Winning Novel: On Lisa Ko’s The Leavers
Ko found the seed of what would become her award-winning novel in an article detailing the charged circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Xiu Ping Jiang, a Chinese New Yorker… More
PEN Announces Barbara Kingsolver Partnership for Socially Engaged Fiction Prize
PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, announced today that it will assume administration of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged… More