The L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award was established by the Boston Globe in 1975 to honor long-time Boston Globe editor Laurence L. Winship. The awards celebrate best works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by New England authors. 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, Kevin Goodan, Stanley Kunitz, Leo Damrosch, Jennifer Haigh, K.C. Frederick, Louise Glück, Sebastian Junger, Rishi Reddi, Ann Killough, Kristen Laine, Patrick Tracy, Nancy K. Pearson, and Margot Livesy.
The 2010 L. L. Winship / PEN New England Award winners were Anne Sanow for Triple Time, Meg Kearney for Home By Now, and Elyssa East for Dogtown. The 2010 judges were Dorothy Allison, Tim Seibles, and Michael Steinberg.
