| Award | Description | Founded | Status |
|---|
| PEN Award for Poetry in Translation | To honor a poetry translation | 1996 | Active |
| PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award | Established in 2016, this award is designed to honor a writer imprisoned for his or her work. Its predecessor was PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom To Write Award (see below). | 2016 | Active |
| PEN/Bellwether Prize | For a previously unpublished work of fiction that address issues of social justice. | 2000 | Active |
| PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay | For a book of original collected essays | 1990 | Active |
| PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature | To honor an author of a major work of Paraguayan literature and the English translator. | 2012 | Active |
| PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award | For writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. | 2011 | Active |
| To honor a nonfiction book about sports. | 2010-2019 | Inactive |
| PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing | To honor an author's body of work and long-term contributions to the field of literary sports writing. | 2011-2019 | Inactive |
| PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize | Recognizes a promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue | 2015 | Active |
| PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award | To honor a "distinguished biography possessing notable literary merit which has been published in the United States during the previous calendar year." | 2008 | Active |
| PEN/Jean Stein Book Award | To "a book that has broken new ground and signals strong potential for lasting influence."[2] | 2016 | Active |
| PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | To a distinguished book of general nonfiction that possess the qualities of intellectual rigor, perspicuity of expression, and stylistic elegance conspicuous in the writings of author and economist John Kenneth Galbraith. | 2007 | Active |
| PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry | In recognition of a book of poetry with high literary character by a new and emerging American poet of any age with the promise of further literary achievement. | 1999-2020 | Inactive |
| PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award | To a Grand Master of American Theater and a playwright in mid-career. | 1998 | Active |
| PEN/Nabokov Award | To writers, principally novelists, "whose works evoke to some measure Nabokov's brilliant versatility and commitment to literature as a search for the deepest truth and the highest pleasure". | 2000–2008; 2017– | Active |
| PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing | To "a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout their career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits." | 1993 | Active |
| PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories | Annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. | 1919 | Active |
| PEN Open Book Award | To books published in the United States (but without citizenship or residency requirements) by "authors of color who have not received wide media coverage". | 1991 | Active |
| PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship | To a writer of children's or young-adult fiction of high literary caliber "at a crucial moment in their career to complete a book-length work-in-progress." | 2001 | Active |
| PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation | To a translator "whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through the body of their work". | 1982 | Active |
| PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers | Recognizes 12 emerging fiction writers each year for their debut short story | 2016 | Active |
| PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize | To "exceptionally talented fiction writers whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories...represent distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise." | 2002 | Active |
| PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction | To "a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature." | 2007 | Active |
| PEN Translation Fund Grants | Grants are awarded each year to a select number of literary translators | 2003 | Active |
| PEN Translation Prize | To outstanding translations into the English language. | 1963 | Active |
| PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry | To an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature. | 1994 | Active |
| PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award | Honours writers anywhere in the world who have fought courageously in the face of adversity for the right to freedom of expression. Succeeded by PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award (see above). | 1987–2015 | Inactive |
| PEN/Steven Kroll Award | "to acknowledge the distinct literary contributions of picture book writers." | 2012–2014 | Inactive |
| PEN/W.G. Sebald Award | To honor a promising writer who has published three works of fiction. | 2010–2011 | Inactive |
| PEN Emerging Writers Awards | To up-and-coming authors whose writing have been featured in distinguished literary journals, but haven't published book-length works. | 2011–2011 | Inactive |
| PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award[3] [4] | Unpublished writers submit original short story manuscripts. Each manuscript will compete for a $10,000 cash grant and publication at Amazon.com and in The Boston Book Review. Award active for one year. | 2000–2000 | Inactive |
| Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts[5] [6] | For literary writing on the visual arts. Award active for two years. | 2000–2001 | Inactive |
| Gregory Kolovakos Award | To a U.S. literary translator, editor, or critic "whose work, in meeting the challenge of cultural difference, extends Gregory Kolovakos's commitment to the richness of Hispanic literature and to expanding its English-language audience". | 1992–2004 | Inactive |
| Jerard Fund Award[7] | Honors a work in progress of general nonfiction distinguished by high literary quality by a woman at the midpoint in her career. Presented every 2 years. | 2001–2005 | Inactive |
| Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir[8] | For a first published memoir. | 1998–2006 | Inactive |
| Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction[9] | For an American author's first-published book of general nonfiction. | 1989–2006 | Inactive |
| PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award[10] | To a U.S. resident "who has fought courageously, despite adversity, to safeguard the First Amendment right to freedom of expression as it applies to the written word." The award succeeded the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award | 2008–2008 | Inactive |
| PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award | To a U.S. resident who "fought courageously, despite adversity, to safeguard the First Amendment right to freedom of expression as it applies to the written word." | 1993–2006 | Inactive |
| Renato Poggioli Translation Award[11] | For a translator at work on an English-language version of Italian literature. | 1991–2000 (?) | Inactive |
| Roger Klein Award for Career Achievement[12] | To a trade book editor every two years for "distinguished editorial achievement."[13] | 1971–2000 (?) | Inactive |
| Roger Klein Award for Editing[14] | An honor "given [every two years] to an outstanding editor in trade hardcover publishing."[15] | 1971–2000 (?) | Inactive | |
| Award | Description | Founded | Status |
|---|
| Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award | To honor a New England author or book with a New England setting or subject. | 1975 | Active |
| PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel | To a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction. | 1976 | Active |
| PEN Song Lyrics Award[18] | to a singer songwriter, for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence | 2012 | Active |
| Vasyl Stus Freedom-to-Write Award[19] | Recognizes a writer persecuted for the peaceful expression of their views and whose courage in the face of censorship and oppression is exemplary. | (?) | Active |
| Susan P. Bloom Children's Book Discovery Award[20] | Given to a New England resident for an unpublished work in one of four categories of children’s literature: picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction. | (?) | Active |
| Henry David Thoreau Prize[21] | Awarded annually to a writer demonstrating literary excellence in nature writing. | (?) | Active |
| Friend to Writers Award[22] | To one individual and one organization whose commitment to a culture of literature and the free and open exchange of ideas personifies PEN’s core mission. | (?) | Active |
| Howard Zinn Award[23] | Presented to an American writer for speaking truth to power. | (?) | Active | |
