Amazon.com and PEN American Center Introduce the PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award for Unpublished Writers.Business Editors, Retail/High-Tech/Publishing Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000 Distinguished panel of PEN authors including David Guterson, Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid (b. Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, 25 May 1949 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is an American novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She lives with her family at North Bennington in the U.S. state of Vermont. , and Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is an award-winning and prolific author and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a modern Native American. He lives in Seattle, Washington. will name winner Demonstrating passion for the written word and ongoing commitment to literature, Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ) (www.amazon.com) today launched the PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award. A collaboration between Amazon.com, the No. 1 online book retailer, and PEN American Center PEN American Center (PEN), founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. The Center has a membership of 3,300 writers, editors, and translators. , the foremost organization of American writers Lists of American writers include: United States By ethnicity
The judging panel is composed of three PEN writers: David Guterson David Guterson (born May 4, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He is best known as the author of the novel Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), which won many awards, including the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. , author of the award-winning Snow Falling on Cedars; Jamaica Kincaid, author of Annie John Annie John, a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1985, details the growth of a girl in Antigua, an island in the Caribbean. It covers issues as diverse as mother-daughter relationships, lesbianism, racism, clinical depression, education, and the struggle between medicine and Autobiography of My Mother; and poet, novelist, short story writer, and filmmaker Sherman Alexie, author of The Lone Ranger Lone Ranger arch foe of criminals in early west. [Radio: “The Lone Ranger” in Buxton, 143–144; Comics: Horn, 460; TV: Terrace, II, 34–35] See : Crime Fighting Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Joining 16 other PEN literary honors, the PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award will be presented at the annual PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on May 15, 2000, at the Walter Reade Walter Reade created the Walter Reade Organization, which owned and operated theatres in Manhattan. The firm also owned the Charles Cinema in Boston, which opened in April, 1967, and closed in December of 1976. Theatre in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's Lincoln Center Lincoln Center New York’s modern theater complex. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1586] See : Theater . In addition to having the opportunity to meet and mingle with attending PEN members -- including well-known authors, editors, and literary critics -- the winning writer will gain exposure to millions of book-loving readers when the winning manuscript is published online at Amazon.com and in The Boston Book Review, a premier independent literary arts magazine. &uot;Since 1995, the Amazon.com site has served as a gathering place for millions of people who love books as much as we do,&uot; said Nicholas H. Allison, editor in chief, Amazon.com Book Store. &uot;We're thrilled to be partnering with an organization of PEN's stature, helping foster great writing and putting that writing before the millions of readers who visit our site.&uot; &uot;For over three decades, PEN's literary awards have recognized excellent writing in every genre,&uot; said Michael Roberts, executive director of PEN American Center. &uot;PEN is delighted to join Amazon.com to help open doors for unpublished writers and, through Amazon.com's extraordinary reach into the worldwide community of readers, to gain greater recognition for all PEN's work on behalf of literature.&uot; The PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award entry is open to any writer whose fiction has not appeared in a book or nationally distributed publication with a circulation over 5,000. To participate, writers must be over the age of 18 and residents of either the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. or Canada. Manuscript submissions must be postmarked on or before March 24, 2000. Final typed and double-spaced manuscripts should be e-mailed to shortstory@amazon.com or mailed to The PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award; P.O. Box 80727; Seattle, Washington  This page is protected from moves until disputes have been resolved on the .The reason for its protection is listed on the protection policy page. , 98108. Submitted manuscripts will not be returned. Additional award information and a complete set of rules can be found at www.amazon.com/shortstory. There is no fee to enter. About PEN American Center PEN American Center is a fellowship of writers dedicated to advancing the cause of literature and reading in the United States and defending free expression around the world. Headquartered in New York, it is the largest of 131 International PEN Centers worldwide, with some 2,700 members (poets, playwrights, essayists The following is an abbreviated list of essayists, arranged alphabetically by last name (years of birth and death, if applicable, and country of birth, are noted in parentheses). Note: An individual's country of birth is not always indicative of his or her nationality. , editors, novelists, and translators) across the United States. The PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award joins 16 other literary prizes and awards administered by PEN American Center recognizing literary excellence in a variety of genres through such prizes as the PEN/Nabokov Award, the PEN/Laura Pels The Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama, commonly referred to as the PEN/Laura Pels Award, annually recognizes two American playwrights. A medal is given to a designated master American dramatist, in recognition of their work, and a stipend of $7,500 (in 2005) is Foundation Awards for Drama, and the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. About Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com (Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries) is the Internet's No. 1 music, No. 1 DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and video, and No. 1 book retailer. Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN) opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection, along with online auctions and free electronic greeting cards. Amazon.com lists more than 18 million unique items in categories including books, CDs, toys, electronics, videos, DVDs, home improvement products, software, and video games. Through Amazon.com zShops, any business or individual can sell virtually anything to Amazon.com's more than 17 million customers, and with Amazon.com Payments, any seller can accept credit card transactions, avoiding the hassles of offline payments. The company also participates in sothebys.amazon.com, the leading auction site for guaranteed art, jewelry, and collectibles, at www.sothebys.amazon.com. Amazon.com seeks to be the world's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they may want to buy online. Amazon.com's All Product Search scours scour, scours 1. the chemical and physical cleaning of fleece wool. 2. diarrhea. dietetic scour see dietary diarrhea. peat scour see secondary nutritional copper deficiency. the Web to help customers find merchandise that is not available at Amazon.com, Amazon.com Auctions, or Amazon.com zShops, making Amazon.com the shopping destination to find anything. Amazon.com operates two international Web sites: www.amazon.co.uk/ and www.amazon.de. It also operates the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the Web's comprehensive and authoritative source of information on more than 150,000 movies and entertainment programs and 500,000 cast and crew members dating from the birth of film in 1892 to the present. Amazon.com has invested in leading Internet retailers that are improving the lives of customers by making shopping easier and more convenient: Greenlight.com, the only company that offers car buyers the control of auto purchasing online with ongoing service and support from local dealerships, at www.greenlight.com; living.com, the leading online home products and services retailer, at www.living.com; drugstore.com, an online retail and information source for health, beauty, wellness, personal care and pharmacy, at www.drugstore.com; Pets.com, the online leader for pet products, expert information, and services, at www.pets.com; HomeGrocer.com, the first fully integrated Internet grocery-shopping and home-delivery service -- with operations in Seattle; Portland, Oregon; and Southern California -- at www.homegrocer.com; Gear.com, which offers brand-name sporting goods at prices from 20 to 90 percent off retail, at www.gear.com; and Ashford.com, the leading Internet retailer of luxury and premium products and the Web's No. 1 retailer of watches and jewelry, at www.ashford.com. Amazon.com also has a minority interest in Della.com, which brings together leading retailers with gift registry, expert advice, and personalized gift suggestions to help everyone give better gifts, at www.della.com; and NextCard, Inc., considered the industry's leading issuer of consumer credit on the Internet, at www.nextcard.com; and Audible, Inc., the leader in Internet-delivered spoken audio for PC-based listening or playback on AudibleReady(TM) portable digital audio devices, at www.audible.com/. This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, Amazon.com's limited operating history, anticipated losses, unpredictability of future revenues, potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results, seasonality, consumer trends, competition, risk of distribution center expansion, risks related to fourth quarter performance, risks of system interruption, management of potential growth, risks related to auction and zShops services, risks related to fraud and Amazon.com Payments, and risks of new business areas, international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances. 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