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PEN Oakland awards

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The PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award is for U.S. multicultural writers, to "promote works of excellence by writers of all cultural and racial backgrounds and to educate both the public and the media as to the nature of multicultural work."[1][2] It was founded by PEN Oakland in 1991 and named in honor of Josephine Miles. PEN Oakland was founded in 1989. The award was dubbed the "Blue Collar PEN Award" by The New York Times.[2][3]

In 1997, Pen Oakland inaugurated its PEN Oakland/Gary Webb Anti-Censorship Award to protest censorship practices within the U.S. Other awards are the PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award established in 2006; and the PEN Oakland/Adelle Foley Award established in 2016 and "given to a work, not fiction or poetry, that has done much to improve the relations between people in American society."

Although PEN Oakland unsuccessfully attempted to become the USA's third PEN center, the attempt did succeed in opening the doors for PEN Oakland to become a full chapter of the PEN Center USA. PEN Oakland also introduced a resolution for more equitable media coverage of minorities and ethnic groups. The group sponsored the Oakland Literature Expo portion of the City of Oakland’s Art & Soul Festival from 2001 through 2004.

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Josephine Miles Award

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Gary Webb Anti-Censorship Award

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Gary Webb Anti-Censorship Award recipients[4]
Year Recipient(s)
1997 Floyd Salas
1998 Gerald Nicosia
1999 Mumia Abu-Jamal and Gary Webb
2000 Robert Parry
2001 William Mandel, Rabbi Michael Lerner, and Daniel Hernandez
2002 Barbara Lee
2003 Sam Hamill
2004 George Julius Theodule
2005 Kitty Kelley
2006 Bill Moyers
2007 Greg Palast
2008 Project Censored
2009 Jefferson Morely
2010 Richard Prince
2011 WikiLeaks and Carole Simpson
2012 Alexander Cockburn
2013 Chris Hedges
2014 Abraham Bolden
2015 Lincoln Bergman
2016 Museum of the African Diaspora
2018 The Honorable Libby Schaaf
2019 Kim Shuck
2020 Omarosa Manigault Newman
2021 Roxane Gay
2022 Jefferson Morley

Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award

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Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award recipients[4]
Year Recipient(s)
2006 Joyce Jenkins
2007 Andy Ross
2008 Reginald Lockett, Adrienne Kennedy, Diane di Prima
2009 A. D. Winans, Harriet Rohmer, and Kristin Hunter Lattany
2010 Paul Krassner and Vance Bourjaily
2011 Adam David Miller
2012 Q. R. Hand, Jr.
2013 Jesse Douglas Taylor
2014 Askia M. Touré
2015 Avotcja and Marvin X
2016 Clarence Major
2018 Ana Castillo
2019 Percival Everett
2020 Thomas Sanchez, Robert Sward
2021 Genny Lim
2022 Nellie Wong and Bruce Anderson
2023 Louise Meriwether and Sarah Webster Fabio
2024 Judy Juanita and Marco Portales

Adelle Foley Award

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Adelle Foley Award recipients[4]
Year Recipient(s)
2016 Shira A. Scheindlin
2018 Avotcja
2019 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
2020 Henry Dumas
2021 Margaret Porter Troupe and Gavin Newsom
2022 Rusty Morrison
2023 Daily Kos and Joyce Wong
2024 Nina Serrano and Dorsey Nunn

Reginald Martin Award for Excellence in Criticism

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Reginald Martin Award recipients
Year Recipient(s)
2021 Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
2018 Judy Grahn
2019 Tressie McMillan Cottom

References

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  1. ^ Javier Huerta (November 2008). "2008 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles National Literary Awards". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Gar Smith (December 15, 2012). "Oakland PEN Writing Awards Honor Paul Krassner, Local Writers". The Berkeley Daily Planet. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
  3. ^ a b Felicity Barringer (December 4, 2009). "The 'Blue-Collar' PEN Awards". New York Times. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d "PEN Oakland awards and winners". PEN Oakland. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
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