LITERATURE ROCKS

 
 

 
 
Sunday, May 6th
14th Annual Susan P. Bloom
Children’s Book Discovery Award

Winners:
Amitha Knight, Landwalker
Heather Demetrios, Streaming

 
 

 
 
Announcing the PEN New England sports writing Hall of Fame
and the Pen New England award for literary excellence in sports fiction.

More information to come…

 
 

 
 

Gary Snyder received “The Henry David Thoreau Award”
for literary excellence in nature writing.
Co-hosted by MIT, April 2012
Click here for more information.

 
 

 
 

Richard Hoffman, April 21st, on “The State of Poetry”

 
 

 
 
PEN/ Hemingway & PEN/ Winship Awards Ceremony
To watch the ceremony, click here.

Teju Cole 2012 PEN/Hemingway Award winner. Photo by Jonathan Wiggs, Globe staff

The 2012 PEN/ Hemingway Award for First Fiction
Teju Cole, Open City

Finalists:
Amy Waldman, The Submission
Stephanie Powell Watts, We Are Taking Only What We Need

Honorable Mentions:
Marjorie Hudson, Accidental Birds of the Carolinas
Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

The 2012 PEN/ Winship Awards

Fiction: Yannick Murphy, The Call
Poetry: Elizabeth Willis, Address
Non-Fiction: Mitchell Zuckoff, Lost in Shangri-La