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Announcing the Winner of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
We are excited to announce that Deesha Philyaw's The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (West Virginia University Press) has been selected as the winner of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!"Choosing from among our five exceptional finalists was a supremely difficult...
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Announcing the Finalists for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Judges have selected the five finalists for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America’s most prestigious peer-juried literary prize. The finalists are Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed (Counterpoint), The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine (Grove...
REFUGE
DATE | March 11, 2021 at 7pm ET
LOCATION | Online Event
Refuge featured authors who have explored topics of immigration, identity, and home in their work, at a time when these issues are especially urgent.
This insightful and challenging discussion of refuge and home featured authors Aleksandar Hemon (Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project), Abdi Nor Iftin (Call Me American), Souvankham Thammavongsa (How to Pronounce Knife), and moderator Matthew Davis (Founding Director, Alan Cheuse International Writers Center).
Catch the recording and transcript of this event now!
Matthew Davis
Matthew Davis
Abdi Nor Iftin
Abdi Nor Iftin
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon
G. Willow Wilson
G. Willow Wilson
Mathangi Subramanian
Mathangi Subramanian
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Scattered Lights
Scattered Lights by Steve Wiegenstein
The Office of Historical Corrections
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
Nine Shiny Objects
Nine Shiny Objects by Brian Castleberry
Mother Daughter Widow Wife
Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman
The Knockout Queen
The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses
Dear Ann
Dear Ann by Bobbie Ann Mason
Bestiary
Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi
Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw
Steve Wiegenstein
Steve Wiegenstein
Danielle Evans
Danielle Evans
Brian Castleberry
Brian Castleberry
Robin Wasserman
Robin Wasserman
Rufi Thorpe
Rufi Thorpe
Matthew Salesses
Matthew Salesses
Bobbie Ann Mason
Bobbie Ann Mason
K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang
Airea D. Matthews
Airea D. Matthews
N.K. Jemisin
N.K. Jemisin
Tananarive Due
Tananarive Due
Sheree Renée Thomas
Sheree Renée Thomas
Maria Hinojosa
Maria Hinojosa
Jennifer Clement
Jennifer Clement
Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea
Hannah Allam
Hannah Allam
Susan Muaddi Darraj
Susan Muaddi Darraj
Osama Alomar
Osama Alomar
Laila Halaby
Laila Halaby
Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand
Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski
Brian Evenson
Brian Evenson
Dan Chaon
Dan Chaon
Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud
Ebony Flowers
Ebony Flowers
Gene Luen Yang
Gene Luen Yang
Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez
Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez
The Topeka School
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Sing to It
Sing to It by Amy Hempel
The Bird King
The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
A People’s History of Heaven
A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
Patsy
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Douglas Stuart
Douglas Stuart
Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee
INTERSECTIONS
DATE | February 9, 2021 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION | Online Event
Intersections featured authors who have engaged with intersectional identities in their work. We were joined by novelists Tope Folarin, Min Jin Lee, and Douglas Stuart, as well as moderator and book critic Bethanne Patrick, for a complicated and challenging discussion of intersectionality in literature.
NOW AVAILABLE: The event recording and transcript.
LeVar Burton Is Our Inaugural PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion
We are excited to announce that LeVar Burton, award-winning actor and longtime host of Reading Rainbow, has been named the inaugural PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion. Launched in conjunction with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s 40th Anniversary, this annual...
Announcing the Longlist for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
We are thrilled to announce the longlist of books for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America’s most prestigious peer-juried literary prize. The longlist includes the following ten titles: Bestiary by K-Ming Chang (One World)Dear...
Ramunda Lark Young
Ramunda Lark Young
Russell Hornsby
Russell Hornsby
Angie Thomas
Angie Thomas
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reginald Dwayne Betts
DaMaris B. Hill, PhD
DaMaris B. Hill, PhD
Luis J. Rodriguez
Luis J. Rodriguez
Amber Sparks
Amber Sparks
Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado
Kelly Link
Kelly Link
Lesley Nneka Arimah
Lesley Nneka Arimah
Isaac Fitzgerald
Isaac Fitzgerald
Esmé Weijun Wang
Esmé Weijun Wang
Zack McDermott
Zack McDermott
Ofelia Montelongo
Writer in Residence
Claude Olson
Literary Education Programs Assistant
Shady Rose
Award Coordinator
Caroline Schreiber
Development Director
Sarah Silberman
Awards and Literary Programs Director
Gwydion Suilebhan
Executive Director
Lakita Wilson
Lisa Page Writing Workshops Fellow
Cristi Donoso Best
Writer in Residence
Faith Angel Campbell
Lisa Page Writing Workshops Fellow
Hugh Hunter
Writer in Residence
Lydia Davis
Winner of the 2020 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story Lydia Davis's ESSAYS ONE, her first nonfiction book, was published in 2019 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Lydia Davis is the author of VARIETIES OF DISTURBANCE, which was a National Book Award...
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Board Chair
LeVar Burton
PEN/FAULKNER LITERARY CHAMPION
LeVar Burton is an actor, director, educator, and cofounder of the award-winning Skybrary app; former host and executive producer of PBS’s Reading Rainbow, and a lifelong children’s literacy advocate. He hosts his own podcast, LeVar Burton Reads, sharing the best short fiction and handpicked by the best voice in podcasting.
Katherine Boone
President
Willy Vlautin
Willy Vlautin
Richard Powers
Richard Powers
Ivelisse Rodriguez
Ivelisse Rodriguez
Blanche McCrary Boyd
Blanche McCrary Boyd
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
We Cast a Shadow
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
The Night Swimmers
The Night Swimmers by Peter Rock
Where Reasons End
Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel
Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner
G. Willow Wilson
G. Willow Wilson
Mathangi Subramanian
Mathangi Subramanian
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