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PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award

ぺんおーくらんど／じょせふぃんまいるずぶんがくしょう

Literary award honoring multicultural writers in the United States. Aims to promote outstanding works by writers from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

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Established
1991
Organizer
PEN Oakland
Category
Literature and General Literary Arts
Selection Method
Recommendation
Target
Professional
Frequency
1 per year
Status
Active

Description

The PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award was established in 1991 by PEN Oakland to honor outstanding works by multicultural writers in the United States from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds and to convey the significance of multicultural works to the general public and media. PEN Oakland itself was founded in 1989, and the award is named after Josephine Miles. It has been referred to as the 'Blue Collar PEN Award' by The New York Times.

Prize

Main Prize
Primarily an honorary literary award. No official information on prize money is provided.

Selection

Selection Process

Nomination
Judges Candidate selection by PEN Oakland members and affiliates
Announcement Candidates are selected internally (details not publicly disclosed)
Selection
Judges PEN Oakland Selection Committee
Announcement Winners determined through review by the selection committee
Award Announcement
Judges Selection Committee
Announcement Announced on PEN Oakland's official website and at the award ceremony, etc.

Criteria

  • Literary quality of the work (literary excellence)
  • Multiculturalism and representation of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds
  • Social and cultural contributions and impact

Related Awards

  • PEN Oakland/Gary Webb Anti-Censorship Award
  • PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award
  • PEN Oakland/Adelle Foley Award
  • PEN Oakland/Reginald Martin Award for Excellence in Criticism
  • Various awards of International PEN
  • Awards of PEN Center USA

Official Resources

https://www.pen-oakland.org/awards-winners/

Past Winners

Edition 34 (2024)
Henry Threadgill へんりー・すれっどぎる Winner
Brent Hayes Edwards ぶれんと・へいず・えどわーず Winner
Airea D. Matthews あいれあ・でぃー・ましゅーず Winner
Daniel Mason だにえる・めいそん Winner
C. L. R. James しー・える・あーる・じぇーむず Winner
Thomas Pecore Weso とーます・ぺこあ・うぇそ Winner
Danny Romero だにー・ろめろ Winner
Dylan C Penningworth でぃらん・しー・ぺにんぐわーす Winner
Pat Thomas ぱっと・とーます Winner
Edition 33 (2023)
Javier Zamora はびえる・さもら Winner
Ada Limón あだ・りもん Winner
John N Serio じょん・えぬ・せりお Winner
T. J. English てぃー・じぇい・いんぐりっしゅ Winner
Leila Mottley れいら・もとりー Winner
Jenny Xie じぇにー・しえ Winner
Kobena Mercer こべな・まーさー Winner
D S Marriott でぃー・えす・まりおっと Winner
Gilbert Hernandez ぎるばーと・へるなんです Winner
Jaime Hernandez はいめ・へるなんです Winner
Mario Hernandez まりお・へるなんです Winner
Edition 32 (2022)
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ちゃんだ・ぷれすこっど＝わいんすたいん Winner
Susana Praver Perez すさな・ぷらべーる＝ぺれす Winner
Alison Bechdel ありそん・べくでる Winner
Gloria Gervitz ぐろりあ・げるゔぃっつ Winner
Joan Steinau Lester じょあん・すたいのー・れすたー Winner
C. A. Conrad しー・えー・こんらっど Winner
Talib Kweli たりぶ・くうぇり Winner
Edition 31 (2021)
Joy Harjo じょい・はるじょ Winner
LeAnne Howe りーあん・はう Winner
Jennifer Elise Foerster じぇにふぁー・ふぉーすたー Winner
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai ぐえん・ふぁん・くえ・まい Winner
John Backderf だーふ・ばっくだーふ Winner
Christopher Bernard くりすとふぁー・ばーなーど Winner
Daphne A. Brooks だふね・ぶるっくす Winner
Nikki Giovanni にっき・じょゔぁんに Winner
Terry McMillan てりー・まくみらん Winner
Edition 30 (2020)
Nick Estes にっく・えすてす Winner
Sigrun Susan Lane しぐるん・すーざん・れいん Winner
Jericho Brown じぇりこ・ぶらうん Winner
Maya Khosla まや・こーすら Winner
Jillian Weise じりあん・わいず Winner
Jia Tolentino じあ・とれんてぃの Winner
Stephanie McCurry すてふぁにー・まっかりー Winner
Edition 29 (2019)
Richard Powers りちゃーど・ぱわーず Winner
Alicia Garza ありしあ・がるざ Winner
Ayọ Tometi おぱーる・とめてぃ Winner
Patrisse Khan-Cullors ぱとりーす・かーん＝からーず Winner
Ha Jin は・じん Winner
Jamel Brinkley じゃめる・ぶりんくりー Winner
David W. Blight でいゔぃっど・ぶらいと Winner
Kalamu ya Salaam からむ・や・さらーむ Winner
Vernon Keeve Iii ゔぁーのん・きーゔ Winner
James Cagney じぇーむず・きゃぐにー Winner
Jason Lutes じぇいそん・るーつ Winner
Edition 28 (2018)
Andrew Sean Greer あんどりゅー・しょーん・ぐりあー Winner
Jerome Rothenberg じぇろーむ・ろーてんばーぐ Winner
Julie Lythcott-Haims じゅりー・りすこっと＝へいむず Winner
M. L. Liebler えむ・える・りーぶらー Winner
Paul Ortiz ぽーる・おるてぃす Winner
Percival Leonard Everett II ぱーしゔぁる・えゔぇれっと Winner
Tongo Eisen-Martin とんご・あいぜん＝まーてぃん Winner
Edition 27 (2017)
Randa Jarrar らんだ・じゃらー Winner
Gerald Horne じぇらるど・ほーん Winner
Mk Chavez えむけー・ちゃべす Winner
Nancy G. Isenberg なんしー・あいぜんばーぐ Winner
Arturo Mantecon あるとぅーろ・まんてこん Winner
Kurt Schweigman かーと・しゅゔぁいぐまん Winner
Lucille Lang Day るしーる・らんぐ・でい Winner
John Edgar Wideman じょん・えどがー・うぃどまん Winner
Edition 26 (2016)
Elizabeth Alexander えりざべす・あれきさんだー Winner
Ta-Nehisi Coates た・ねひし・こーつ Winner
Frances Gateward ふらんしす・げいとわーど Winner
Latif Harris らてぃふ・はりす Winner
Juan Felipe Herrera ふあん・ふぇりぺ・へれら Winner
John Jennings じょん・じぇにんぐす Winner
Gerald Vizenor じぇらるど・ゔぃぜのーる Winner
Edition 25 (2015)
Natasha Trethewey なたーしゃ・とれせうぇい Winner
Lenelle Moïse れねる・もいず Winner
Claudia Rankine くらうでぃあ・らんきん Winner
Peter Herris ぴーたー・へりす Winner
Deborah A. Miranda でぼら・えー・みらんだ Winner
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ろくさーぬ・だんばー＝おるてぃす Winner
Edition 24 (2014)
Daniel Chacón Winner
Edwidge Danticat Winner
Claudia Moreno Pisano Winner
Roger William Reeves Winner
Nina Serrano Winner
Akinyele Omowale Umoja Winner
Edition 23 (2013)
Andrew Lam Winner
Luis J. Rodriguez Winner
Denise M. Sandoval Winner
Lucille Lang Day Winner
Toni Morrison Winner
Tim Seibles Winner
Christopher Wagstaff Winner
Edition 22 (2012)
Melinda Palacio Winner
Michael Warr Winner
Aurora Harris Winner
Deena Metzger Winner
Edward Sanders Winner
Mary Mackey Winner
Jesmyn Ward Winner
Edition 21 (2011)
Devreaux Baker Winner
N. Banerjee Winner
J. P. Dancing Bear Winner
John Lee Farris Winner
Jim Harrison Winner
S. Kaipa Winner
Lola Shoneyin Winner
Barry Spector Winner
P. Sundaralingam Winner
Susan Suntree Winner
Gary Snyder Winner
Eric Miles Williamson Winner
Edition 20 (2010)
Clifton Ross Winner
Elizabeth Nunez Winner
Etel Adnan Winner
Manuel Ruben Delgado Winner
Andrena Zawinski Winner
Maria Espinosa Winner
Mitch Horowitz Winner
Ivan J. Houston Winner
Edition 19 (2009)
Doren Robbins Winner
Charles L. Robinson Winner
Al Young Winner
Herbert Gold Winner
Janice Blue Winner
C. Paolo Caruso Winner
Richard Bruce Nugent Winner
Edition 18 (2008)
Joanne Kyger Winner
Rosa Martha Villarreal Winner
Rebecca Solnit Winner
Juan Felipe Herrera Winner
Colleen J. McElroy Winner
Cecil Brown Winner
Colson Whitehead Winner
Edition 17 (2007)
Will Alexander Winner
Karla Andersdatter Winner
Kathleen de Azevedo Winner
Steve Dalachinsky Winner
Adam P. Kennedy Winner
William Poy Lee Winner
Lorena Oropeza Winner
Dionne Espinoza Winner
Harriet A. Washington Winner
Edition 16 (2006)
David Hilliard Winner
Mike Madison Winner
Gerald William Haslam Winner
Eric Gansworth Winner
Jennifer Murphy Winner
Mona Lisa Saloy Winner
Richard Silberg Winner
A. D. Winans Winner
Edition 15 (2005)
David Meltzer Winner
Neeli Cherkovski Winner
Derek Alton Walcott Winner
Jeffery Paul Chan Winner
Suhayl Saadi Winner
Aldon Lynn Nielsen Winner
Edition 14 (2004)
Edgardo Vega Yunqué Winner
Noemi Sohn Winner
Lewis Robinson Winner
Monique T. D. Truong Winner
Jill Nelson Winner
Fred Reiss Winner
Edition 13 (2003)
Clive Matson Winner
Allan Cohen Winner
Gail Tsukiyama Winner
Paul Flores Winner
Ghada Karmi Winner
Jack Hirschman Winner
Luis J. Rodriguez Winner
Jewell Parker Rhodes Winner
Edition 12 (2002)
A. Van Jordan Winner
Nathalie Handal Winner
Myronn Hardy Winner
Agha Shahid Ali Winner
Charles Rubin Winner
Edition 11 (2001)
Mary Monroe Winner
Dan Leone Winner
Yehuda Amichai Winner
Leza Lowitz Winner
Leslie Marmon Silko Winner
Jervey Tervalon Winner
Edition 10 (2000)
José García Villa Winner
Elmaz Abinader Winner
Wendy Doniger Winner
Alan Lew Winner
Nathan Englander Winner
Eleanor Taylor Bland Winner
Edition 9 (1999)
Darryl Babe Wilson Winner
Mike Davis Winner
Elaine Marcus Starkman Winner
Marsha Lee Berkman Winner
Ruth Forman Winner
Koon Woon Winner
Clyde Taylor Winner
Edition 8 (1998)
John Mulligan Winner
Ibrahim Fawal Winner
Alfred Arteaga Winner
Leslie Woodd Winner
Marketa Groves Winner
Edition 7 (1997)
Devorah Major Winner
Percival Leonard Everett II Winner
Julie Shigekuni Winner
Michael Lally Winner
Kevin Killian Winner
Ray González Winner
Edition 6 (1996)
Gerald Vizenor Winner
Jerome Rothenberg Winner
Pierre Joris Winner
Norman Mailer Winner
Reginald Lockett Winner
Barbara Guest Winner
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Winner
Edition 5 (1995)
Alma Luz Villanueva Winner
E. Ethelbert Miller Winner
Michael McClure Winner
Marilyn Chin Winner
Juvenal Acosta Winner
Edition 4 (1994)
Peter J. Harris ぴーたー・じぇー・はりす Winner
Phyllis Burke ふぃりす・ばーく Winner
Brenda Lane Richardson ぶれんだ・れいん・りちゃーどそん Winner
Clifford E Trafzer くりふぉーど・いー・とらふざー Winner
Russell Charles Leong らっせる・れおん Winner
Jerome Rothenberg じぇろーむ・ろーてんばーぐ Winner
Paula L. Woods ぽーら・うっず Winner
Felix Liddell ふぇりっくす・りでる Winner
Edition 3 (1993)
Francisco X. Alarcón ふらんしすこ・えっくす・あらるこん Winner
Opal Palmer Adisa おぱーる・ぱるまー・あでぃさ Winner
Lucha Corpi るちゃ・こるぴ Winner
Sylvia Lopez Medina しるびあ・ろぺす＝めでぃな Winner
Louis Owens るいす・おーうぇんず Winner
Sylvia Watanabe しるゔぃあ・わたなべ Winner
Edition 2 (1992)
Luis J. Rodriguez るいす・じぇー・ろどりげす Winner
David Mura でいゔぃっど・むら Winner
Louis Edwards るい・えどわーず Winner
Thomas King とーます・きんぐ Winner
David Ignatow でいゔぃっど・いぐなとう Winner
Julia Alvarez じゅりあ・あるばれす Winner
Edition 1 (1991)
Gerald Vizenor じぇらるど・ゔぃぜのーる Winner
Jess Mowry じぇす・まうりー Winner
Li-Young Lee りー・やんぐ・りー Winner
Gerald William Haslam じぇらるど・はすらむ Winner
Joy Harjo じょい・はーじょ Winner
Gerald Stern じぇらるど・すたーん Winner