PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Created

Posted on May 13, 2010

ESPN and the PEN American Center have announced the formation of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. The inaugural $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing will honor a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles should be of a biographical, investigative, historical, or analytical nature and of the strongest literary character. The award will be open to all such books published in the United States in 2009. Publishers, authors, and agents must submit eligible titles by June 15, 2010.

You can find out more details here on PEN's website.

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