The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship is awarded by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) annually to a writer of children's or young-adult fiction of high literary caliber "at a crucial moment in his or her career to complete a book-length work-in-progress." The author receives $5,000 and was made possible by PEN member Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, the Newbery Medal winner of such books as Sang Spell and Shiloh.
The author must be nominated by an editor or a fellow writer and must have published "at least two novels for children or young adults which have been warmly received by literary critics, but have not generated sufficient income to support the author."
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN America awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.
Award winners +PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship winnersYearAuthorTitleRef.2001 Sparks, published by Wendy Lamb Books in 20022002Broken China, published by Simon Pulse in 20062003 (Available for Publication)2004[Untitled] (Available for Publication)2005 Night Road, published by Harper Teen in 20082006 Everything You Want, published by Flux Books in 20082007 Genesis, published as Season of Ice by Bloomsbury in 20082008 Julia Delany: The American Version, published as The Year We Sailed the Sun by Atheneum Books in 20152009, published as Glimpse by Simon and Schuster in 20112010 Bluefish, published by Candlewick Press in 20112011 Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling, published by Schwartz & Wade Books in 20142012 Free Verse, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in 20162013 (Available for Publication)2014, published by HarperCollins in 20172015 forthcoming publication with Dutton20162017 Finding Home at the End of the World2018Help Me God, Please Pretty Please2019Womb Talk2020Saving Caravaggio2021Scared—Mad—More!2022Walking the Boomerang2023Mulberry Trees2024How To Forgive an Island2025Rosewood
References
External links PEN America PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists