The following awards are offered by PEN American Center for excellence in literary fiction:

The Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers
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. >> More

The PEN/Nabokov Award
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 of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship ($20,000 biennially in even-numbered years, not offered in 2010). >> More

The Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000) is offered annually to an author of children's or young-adult fiction. >> More

The Beyond Margins Award
PEN/Beyond Margins Awards invites submissions of book-length writings by authors of color, published in the United States during the current calendar year. >> More

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction
This award is now administered by PEN New England, a branch of PEN American Center. >> More

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
This award is not administered by PEN American Center. For submission information, please visit PEN/Faulkner.

The Syndicated Fiction Project
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