From: fran manushkin <franm_at_nyc.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:11:13 -0500

The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship of $5,000 is offered annually to an author of children's or young-adult fiction, who has written two books of high literary caliber but who has not yet attracted a broad readership. The Fellowship is designed to assist a writer at a crucial moment in his or her career, when monetary support is particularly needed to complete a book-length work-in-progress.

Note the change in the entry rules: There is no longer an upper limit to the number of novels that entrants have written, or a time limit on when they were published. Letters of nomination must be received before January 14, 2010. For detailed information on how to apply, please go to:

http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/281

Thanks!

Fran Manushkin and Susanna Reich,

Co-Chairs, PEN's Children's/Young Adult Writers Committee
Received on Mon 04 Jan 2010 12:11:13 PM CST