Sharpen your quill pen! PEN announces new award for emerging writers

It's for writers who've been in journals, but have not yet publisihed a book

April 22, 2011 at 2:14PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

PEN American Center has announced a new award for fledgling writers.The PEN Emerging Writers Award--funded by an anonymous donor--will go to three new writers: a fiction writer, a nonfiction writer, and a poet. Each will receive $1,660 and be honored at a ceremony in New York in October.

Candidates cannot apply but must be nominated by the editors of literary journals where they have been published.

about the writer

about the writer

Laurie Hertzel

Senior Editor

Freelance writer and former Star Tribune books editor Laurie Hertzel is at lauriehertzel@gmail.com.

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