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From: Susanna Reich <reichgolio_at_verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:39:05 -0400
The 2010 PEN/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship was awarded to Pat Schmatz at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony in New York City on October 13. Schmatz won the $5,000 award for her forthcoming young adult novel, BLUEFISH, which will be published by Candlewick in Fall 2011. The judges for this year's award were Dan Greenburg, Suzanne Fisher Staples, and Elise Broach. The first two chapters of BLUEFISH have been posted on the PEN website at
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2011 award. The PEN/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure of financial sustenance in order to make possible an extended period of time to complete a book-length work-in-progress, and to assist a writer at a crucial moment in his or her career when monetary support is particularly needed. The fellowship is supported by an endowment fund established by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. A candidate is a writer of children or young-adult fiction in financial need; candidates have published at least two novels for children or young adults which have been warmly received by literary critics, but have not generated sufficient income to support the author. The writer's books must be published by a U.S. publisher. For information on how to apply, please visit http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/281.
PEN American Center is the largest of the 145 centers of International PEN, the world's oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. The PEN Literary Awards http://www.pen.org/awards is the most comprehensive awards program in the country, offering over $100,000 each year to fiction writers, poets, translators, children's authors, biographers, nonfiction writers, and playwrights.
Received on Mon 01 Nov 2010 10:39:05 AM CDT
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:39:05 -0400
The 2010 PEN/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship was awarded to Pat Schmatz at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony in New York City on October 13. Schmatz won the $5,000 award for her forthcoming young adult novel, BLUEFISH, which will be published by Candlewick in Fall 2011. The judges for this year's award were Dan Greenburg, Suzanne Fisher Staples, and Elise Broach. The first two chapters of BLUEFISH have been posted on the PEN website at
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2011 award. The PEN/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure of financial sustenance in order to make possible an extended period of time to complete a book-length work-in-progress, and to assist a writer at a crucial moment in his or her career when monetary support is particularly needed. The fellowship is supported by an endowment fund established by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. A candidate is a writer of children or young-adult fiction in financial need; candidates have published at least two novels for children or young adults which have been warmly received by literary critics, but have not generated sufficient income to support the author. The writer's books must be published by a U.S. publisher. For information on how to apply, please visit http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/281.
PEN American Center is the largest of the 145 centers of International PEN, the world's oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. The PEN Literary Awards http://www.pen.org/awards is the most comprehensive awards program in the country, offering over $100,000 each year to fiction writers, poets, translators, children's authors, biographers, nonfiction writers, and playwrights.
Received on Mon 01 Nov 2010 10:39:05 AM CDT
