Press Release: Call for Submissions: 2014 PEN Literary Awards
Only three weeks remain to submit to the 2014 PEN Literary Awards. Our awards program, the most comprehensive in the country, will present 17 awards in 2014. Send in your submissions or nominate a colleague today to be considered for awards in the fields of fiction, science writing, essays, sports writing, biography, children's literature, translation, drama, or poetry. NOTE: The deadline for submissions and nominations is earlier this year: December 16, 2013. Please be sure to visit each award's page below for details on how to submit, as our awards submission process has changed.
Visit www.pen.org/literary-awards or write to awards@pen.org for more information. Click here for information on PEN's 2013 award winners.
From now until December 16, 2013,
PEN will be accepting submissions for the following awards:
BOOK SUBMISSIONS
Fiction and Nonfiction
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize ($25,000)
For a fiction writer whose debut work, published in 2013, represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise
PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Founded by Barbara Kingsolver ($25,000)
To the author of an unpublished novel that addresses issues of social justice. The prize also includes a publishing contract with Algonquin Books.
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay ($10,000)
For a book of essays published in 2013 that exemplifies the dignity and esteem of the essay form
PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000)
For a book of literary nonfiction published in 2013 on the subject of the physical or biological sciences
PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing ($5,000)
For a nonfiction book published in 2013 on the subject of sports
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award ($5,000)
For a distinguished biography published in the United States in 2013
