View Post Authors | Awards PEN America to Bring Back the PEN/Nabokov Award in 2017 By Maryann Yin on Aug. 12, 2016 - 9:45 AM Some of the past winners include Mario Vargas Llosa, Cynthia Ozick, and Philip Roth.
View Post Awards University of New Orleans Press Seeks Manuscripts By Dianna Dilworth on Aug. 9, 2016 - 3:10 PM University of New Orleans Press Publishing Lab is seeking full-length, nonfiction manuscripts for their annual prize.
View Post Authors | Awards Matt de la Peña Wins the NCTE National Intellectual Freedom Award By Maryann Yin on Aug. 9, 2016 - 1:05 PM Matt de la Peña will be presented with this award at this year's NCTE Annual Convention.
View Post Awards Caitlin McKenna Wins Ashmead Award By Dianna Dilworth on Aug. 8, 2016 - 3:55 PM Caitlin McKenna has won The Ashmead Award, the publishing prize given in honor of the late book editor Lawrence Peel “Larry” Ashmead, who passed away in 2010.
View Post Awards Paragon Wins Junior Design Award By Dianna Dilworth on Aug. 1, 2016 - 3:55 PM Children's book publisher Parragon Books won a gold level of accreditation at this year’s Junior Design Awards.
View Post Awards Eric Carle Museum to Honor Allen Say By Dianna Dilworth on Jul. 27, 2016 - 3:55 PM The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will honor writer/illustrator Allen Say at its 11th annual fundraiser in New York.
View Post Awards Peter Sellars to Introduce Toni Morrison By Dianna Dilworth on Jul. 25, 2016 - 4:40 PM Theater and festival director Peter Sellars will introduce author Toni Morrison at the Edward MacDowell Medal ceremony.
View Post Authors | Awards Attica Locke Wins the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction By Maryann Yin on Jul. 22, 2016 - 1:05 PM Attica Locke will be presented with her award at a ceremony scheduled to take place on September 22 at the Library of Congress’s Thomas Jefferson Building.
View Post Awards PEN America and Jean Stein Partner Up to Launch a New Grant and a New Award By Maryann Yin on Jul. 20, 2016 - 1:50 PM Jean Stein, an oral historian, has agreed the provide the funding for these two ventures.
View Post Awards Emerging Voices Fellowship Deadline is Encroaching By Dianna Dilworth on Jul. 20, 2016 - 12:15 PM PEN Center USA is looking for submissions for its 2016 Emerging Voices Fellowship. The literary fellowship exists to help launch literary careers for writers that lack the tools and access to do so on their own. The deadline is q ...