October 14, 2007
2008 PEN/Hemingway and L. L. Winship Awards Call for Entries
PEN NEW ENGLAND is now accepting submissions for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and L. L. Winship Award for books published in 2007.
PEN New England/Hemingway Award
The award of $8,000 is presented for a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction. The prize was won last year by Yiyun Li for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Two finalists and two runners-up will also be named.
The late Mary Hemingway, a member of PEN, founded the award in 1976 both to honor the memory of her husband, Ernest Hemingway, and to recognize distinguished first books of fiction. The award is funded by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, which has been administered by the Hemingway Society since 1987, and PEN New England. A panel of three distinguished fiction writers selects the winner.
Previous recipients of the Hemingway/PEN Award include Marilynne Robinson, Bobbie Ann Mason, Josephine Humphreys, Mark Richard, Louis Begley, Edward P. Jones, Susan Power, Ha Jin, Charlotte Bacon, Jhumpa Lahiri, Akhil Sharma, Justin Cronin, Jennifer Haigh, and Chris Abani.
The L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award
The L.L. Winship Award, established by The Boston Globe in 1975, will again be co-sponsored in 2007 by PEN New England, a branch of PEN American Center. Three prizes will be awarded: $1,000 for the best book of poetry, $1,000 for the best book of fiction, and $1,000 for the best book of nonfiction. All entries must be by New England authors or have a New England topic or setting.
Last year, the awards went to Stanley Kunitz for The Wild Braid, Jennifer Haigh for Baker Towers, and Leo Damrosch for Jean Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius.
Previous winners of the L.L. Winship Award include E.B. White, Andre Dubus, Susan Cheever, Tracy Kidder, Mary Oliver, Susan Quinn, Jill Ker Conway, Jan Swafford, Anita Shreve, Edward Delaney, Swanee Hunt and Kevin Goodan.
Awards Ceremony
Both awards will be presented at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston on March 30, 2008. The ceremony is co-sponsored by the library and The Boston Globe.
Eligibility and Entry Forms
For full details, eligibility requirements and entry forms, visit the Awards section.
October 9, 2007
PEN New England has a new home!
PEN New England is now based at Lesley University in Cambridge. Please note our new mailing address and e-mail address:
PEN New England
Lesley University
29 Everett St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-mail: pen_ne@lesley.edu