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PEN Literary Awards Longlist Announced

The 2015 PEN Literary Awards Longlists have just been announced, and several Authors Guild members have been nominated.

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction: Time of the Locust by Morowa Yejidé

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay: You Feel So Mortal by Peggy Shinner

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: The Age of Radiance by Craig Nelson

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction: Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

PEN Open Book Award: An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: John Quincy Adams by Fred Kaplan

PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: All Fishermen are Liars by John Gierach

Shortlists will be announced on April 15. The winners will be announced on May 13 and will receive their prizes at the Pen Literary Awards Ceremony on June 8.

You can read more about each award at the website.