PEN/New England Award

https://pen.org/pen-new-england-awards/

A Literary Heritage

“For as long as there’s been an America, New England has been home to writers. We are the land of John Updike and John Cheever, Sylvia Plath and Ann Sexton, Frederick Douglass and Henry David Thoreau. To say a book is the best by a New England writer is saying a great deal indeed.” —Jennifer Haigh

Celebrating New England’s long and illustrious literary tradition, the PEN/ New England Awards recognize outstanding fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by New England authors. Previous winners include E. B. White, Andre Dubus, Tracy Kidder, Mary Oliver, Susan Quinn, Anita Shreve, Swanee Hunt, Stanley Kunitz, Leo Damrosch, Louise Glück, Margot Livesey, Sebastian Junger, Jennifer Haigh, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Jim Shepard. Formerly called the PEN/Winship Awards, they were established by the Boston Globe in 1975 to honor long-time editor Laurence L. Winship.

- https://pen.org/pen-new-england-awards/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.