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And the Winners are...

2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
Judges: Julia Glass, Michael Lowenthal, and Gail Tsukiyama

Winner
BRIGID PASULKA
A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Finalists
C.E. Morgan for All The Living (FSG)
Abraham Verghese for Cutting For Stone (Knopf)

Honorable Mentions
Mary Beth Keane for The Walking People (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Lydia Peelle for Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing (FSG)

2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Awards
Judges: Dorothy Allison (fiction), Tim Seibles (poetry), Michael Steinberg (nonfiction)

Fiction
ANNE SANOW
Triple Time (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Poetry
MEG KEARNEY
Home By Now (Four Way Books)

Nonfiction
ELYSSA EAST
Dogtown (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)

DOROTHY ALLISON, Keynote Speaker