The PEN New England Award (previously L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award and Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award) is awarded annually by PEN New England (today PEN America Boston)"PEN America Boston is a regional community of PEN America Members and their allies." to honor a New England author or book with a New England setting or subject. The award was established in 1975 by The Boston Globe in conjunction with PEN to honor the veteran Boston Globe editor Laurence L. Winship.
Since 2005, the award has been presented in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with each winner receiving $1,000. For one year in 2012, the award was called the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award in honor of father and son, Thomas Winship, both long-time Boston Globe editors. It was renamed to simply PEN New England Award starting with the 2013 award.
The award presentation is sponsored in part by the JFK Presidential Library. The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.
Winners 1975-2004 +L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award winnersYearAuthorTitleRef.1975Separate Flights19761977Letters of E. B. White1978Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography19791980Marquand: An American Life1981Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete1982Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay1983?1984In a Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist's Life in the Field1985Home Before Dark1986Drawn to Art: A Nineteenth Century American Dream1987Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics198819891990Among Schoolchildren1991House of Light1992Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-194319931994?1995?1996Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family1997Charles Ives: A Life With Music19981999Without: Poems2000Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II2001Transfigurations: Collected Poems2002Niagara Falls All Over Again2003You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories2004Cut Time: An Education at the Fights 2005-present +PEN New England Award winnersYearCategoryAuthorTitleRef.2005Fiction Baker TowersNon-fiction This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the PeacePoetry In the Ghost-House Acquainted2006Fiction Warp & WeftNon-fiction Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless GeniusPoetry2007Fiction InlandNon-fictionPoetry Averno: Poems2008Fiction Karma and Other StoriesNon-fiction American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the HeartlandPoetry Beloved Idea2009Fiction Non-fiction Stalking Irish MadnessPoetry Two Minutes of Light2010Fiction Triple TimeNon-fiction Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost TownPoetry Home, Now2011Fiction Non-fiction Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and RedemptionPoetry Blue for Oceans2012Fiction Non-fiction Lost In Shangri-LaPoetry Address2013Fiction Non-fiction Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of DeathPoetry Blacksnake at the Family Reunion2014Fiction News from HeavenNon-fiction What Happens Next?: Matters of Life and DeathPoetry Frost in the Low Areas2015Fiction Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become WolvesNon-fiction Poetry 2016Fiction Non-fiction Poetry Bastards of the Reagan Era2017Fiction Half WildNon-fiction Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityPoetry Standoff2018No award
References
External links PEN New England Award, official website List of winners at LibraryThing