PEN Emerging Writers Awards

The PEN Emerging Writers Awards is awarded by the PEN American Center. It is awarded to up-and-coming authors whose writing have been featured in distinguished literary journals, but haven't published book-length works.^[1]

Three prizes are awarded: one fiction, one nonfiction, and one poetry. Candidates are only nominated by editors from print and online journals. Participating journals for 2011 included: 6 x 6, A Public Space, Bloom, Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Fence, Gargoyle, Glimmer Train, Guernica, Harvard Review, jubilat, Kenyon Review, Lungfull!, New York Quarterly, One Story, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, Rain Taxi, Spinning Jenny, and Tin House.

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.^[2]

Award winners

• 2011 ^[3]
  • Poetry: Adam Day
  • Fiction: Smith Henderson
  • Nonfiction: David Stuart McLean

References

1. PEN American Center Literary Awards
2. Alfred Bendixen (2005). "Literary Prizes and Awards". The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 689.
3. "Jacket Copy: PEN American Center's 2011 award winners". LA Times. August 11, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2012.

External links

• PEN American Center
• PEN Emerging Writers Awards Winner's Archive