Category of PEN American Center Literary Awards Winners & Nominees Jean GuerreroCrux, Jean Guerrero, Winner, Victoria BlancoVisions of Oasis, Victoria Blanco, Nominee, Laurel Anne FantauzzoArchipelago Sleepovers, Laurel Anne Fantauzzo, Nominee, Jaclyn MoyerThe Girl Outside My Window, Jaclyn Moyer, Nominee, Adriana RamirezDead Boys, Adriana Ramirez, Winner, Liz QuinnThe Forgotten Midwives of Guatemala, Liz Quinn, Nominee, Krystal SitalIncantations, Krystal Sital, Nominee, Melissa PetroUnbecoming, Melissa Petro, Nominee | ||
The PEN Emerging Writers Awards is awarded by the PEN American Center. It is awarded to up-and-coming authors whose writing have been featured in distinguished literary journals, but haven't published book-length works.
Three prizes are awarded: one fiction, one nonfiction, and one poetry. Candidates are only nominated by editors from print and online journals. Participating journals for 2011 included: 6 x 6, A Public Space, Bloom, Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Fence, Gargoyle, Glimmer Train, Guernica, Harvard Review, jubilat, Kenyon Review, Lungfull!, New York Quarterly, One Story, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, Rain Taxi, Spinning Jenny, and Tin House.
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.