2004 keynote speaker Russell Banks
with 2004 PEN Hemingway Award
winner Jennifer Haigh (Mrs. Kimble).

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.

For full entry requirements, deadlines, applications, fees and past winners, please follow either of the links above. Award winners will be announced in early 2006, and the awards ceremony will be held at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston on Sunday April 2, 2006 from 3:00 - 4:00 PM.