The PEN/Nora Magid Award, established in 1993, honors a magazine editor whose
high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed
significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits. Candidates
for the biennial $2,500 award include current editors-in-chief, literary editors,
and "back-of-the-book" editors of serious general interest magazines,
book reviews, or literary reviews and quarterlies, whose intellectual discernment
and wide range of interests recall the late PEN member Nora Magid, who was for
many years the literary editor of The Reporter. The award is made possible
by a grant from PEN member Gerald Weales.
Past honorees: Askold Melnyczuk (Agni), Herbert Liebowitz (Parnassus), Wendy Lesser (The Threepenny Review), Stanley W. Lindberg (The Georgia Review), Peter Stitt (The Gettysburg Review), and Willard Spiegelman(The Southwest Review).
Eligibility and Nominations
Who is eligible:
Candidates for the award must be nominated either by a writer who has written extensively for the candidate's periodical or by a member of the literary community whose admiration of the candidate's work prompts him or her to articulate, in some detail, the ways in which the editor has made a personal mark upon the literary quality of the publication. Especially welcome candidates are editors of magazines, journals, and reviews published by small or regional presses, or magazines whose subjects are aimed at a specialized, but literate, readership.
Deadline:
Nominations are only accepted from PEN Members and must be received between September 1, 2008 and January 16, 2009. Early submissions are strongly recommended
The panel of judges, selected by the PEN Awards Committee, encourages nominations from all PEN Members to supplement nominations from the judges themselves.
For more information on the PEN Literary Awards, call: (212) 334-1660 ext. 108 or e-mail awards@pen.org
