The PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers ($35,000) will honor an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.  

PEN/Beyond Margins Awards invites submissions of booklength writings by authors of color, published in the United States during the current calendar year. The Beyond Margins Awards were created by PEN American Center's Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities. The awards confer five $1,000 prizes upon African, Arab, Asian, Caribbean, Latino, and Native American authors who have not received wide media coverage.  

The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship of $5,000 is offered annually to an author of children's or young-adult fiction. The Fellowship has been developed in recognition of the fact that many writers' work is of high literary caliber but has not yet attracted a broad readership. As a result, an author's book may not achieve the sales that would allow the writer to support him or herself solely from writing.  

Honors a living author whose body of work, published in the United States, either written in or translated into English, represents achievement in a variety of literary genres, and is ofenduring originality and consummate craftsmanship ($20,000 biennially in even-numbered years). By internal nomination only.  

This award is now administered by PEN New England, a branch of PEN American Center. Click here for submission information or visit the PEN New England web site. All inquiries for this award should be directed to PEN New England: (617) 824-8820. Please do not send books for the Hemingway Award to PEN American Center in New York.

This award is not administered by PEN American Center. For submission information, please visit PEN/Faulkner or write to:

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
c/o The Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

The former Syndicated Fiction Project (now known as The Sound of Writing) is not administered by PEN American Center. For submission information, please write to:

The Sound of Writing
P.O. Box 15452
Washington, DC 20003