Each calendar year, PEN New England presents two awards to writers whose work has made an outstanding contribution to fiction, non-fiction or poetry in the previous year. The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, established in 1976 by the late Mary Hemingway in honor of her husband Ernest Hemingway, includes an $8,000 cash prize for a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction. The L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, which was established by The Boston Globe in 1975, includes a cash prize each for an outstanding work of fiction, non-fiction and poetry with a primarily New England setting and/or by an author principally residing in New England.