PEN America has announced their 2025 longlists; the following Civitellians have been nominated.
Phillip Lopate (CRF 2011, Juror) is nominated for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for My Affair with Art House Cinema (Columbia University Press).
Victoria Chang (Incoming Writing Fellow 2026) is nominate for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for her collection With My Back to the World: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Congratulations to all the nominees! Read more about the PEN longlists.