2012 PEN Literary Awards Announced
August 30, 2012
PEN American Center has announed the winners of the 2012 PEN Awards. Winners include Sarah Dooley for the forthcoming title Free Verse (PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship) and Patricia C. McKissack for Never Forgotten (PEN/Steven Kroll Award Honoring the Author of an Illustrated Children’s Book).
"Award winners and runners-up will be honored at the 2012 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, at CUNY Graduate Center’s Proshansky Auditorium in New York City."
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000): To an author of children’s or young-adult fiction, who has published at least two books, to complete a book-length work-in-progress. Judges: Daniel Handler, Lyn Miller-Lachman, and Neal Shusterman.
WINNER: Sarah Dooley, Free Verse (forthcoming from G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
PEN/Steven Kroll Award Honoring the Author of an Illustrated Children’s Book ($5,000):
To a writer for an exceptional story illustrated in a picture book published in 2011. Presented for the first time in 2012. Judges for the inaugural award: Carmen Agra Deedy, Susan Kuklin, and Vera B. Williams.
WINNER: Patricia C. McKissack, Never Forgotten (Schwartz & Wade Books)