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Multicultural literary awards
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."
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[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 .
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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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2023
Javier Zamora ,
Ada Limón , John N. Serio,
T. J. English ,
Leila Mottley ,
Jenny Xie ,
Kobena Mercer , D. S. Marriott,
Gilbert Hernandez ,
Jaime Hernandez , and
Mario Hernandez
2022
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Susana Praver-Perez,
Alison Bechdel ,
Gloria Gervitz (translated from Spanish by Mark Schafer), Joan Steinau Lester,
CAConrad ,
Talib Kweli
2021
Joy Harjo ,
LeAnne Howe , and
Jennifer Foerster ;
Nguyen Phan Que Mai ;
Derf Backderf ; Christopher Bernard;
Daphne Brooks ;
Nikki Giovanni ;
Terry McMillan
2020
Nick Estes , Sigrun Susan Lane,
Jericho Brown , Maya Khosla,
Jillian Weise ,
Jia Tolentino ,
Stephanie McCurry
2019
Richard Powers ;
Alicia Garza ,
Opal Tometi and
Patrisse Khan-Cullors ;
Ha Jin ;
Jamel Brinkley ;
David Blight ;
Kalamu ya Salaam ; Vernon Keeve III; James Cagney,
Jason Lutes
2018
Andrew Sean Greer ,
Jerome Rothenberg ,
Julie Lythcott-Haims ,
M.L. Liebler ,
Paul Ortiz ,
Percival Everett ,
Tongo Eisen-Martin
2017
Randa Jarrar ,
Gerald Horne , MK Chavez,
Nancy Isenberg , Arturo Mantecon, Kurt Schweigman and
Lucille Lang Day ,
John Edgar Wideman
2016
Elizabeth Alexander ,
Ta-Nehisi Coates , Frances Gateward, Latif Harris,
Juan Felipe Herrera , John Jennings,
Gerald Vizenor
2015
Natasha Trethewey ,
Lenelle Moïse ,
Claudia Rankine , Peter Herris,
Deborah A. Miranda ,
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
2014
Daniel Chacon ,
Edwidge Danticat , Claudia Moreno Pisano,
Roger Reeves ,
Nina Serrano ,
Akinyele Omowale Umoja
2013
Andrew Lam ,
Luis J. Rodriguez , Denise M. Sandoval,
Lucille Lang Day ,
Toni Morrison ,
Tim Seibles , Christopher Wagstaff
2012 Melinda Palacio, Michael Warr, Aurora Harris,
Deena Metzger ,
Ed Sanders ,
Mary Mackey ,
Jesmyn Ward
2011 Devreaux Baker, N. Banerjee, J. P. Dancing Bear,
John Farris ,
Jim Harrison , S. Kaipa,
Lola Shoneyin , Barry Spector, P. Sundaralingam, Susan Suntree,
Gary Snyder ,
Eric Miles Williamson
2010
[2] Clifton Ross,
Elizabeth Nunez ,
Etel Adnan , Manuel Ruben Delgado, Andrena Zawinski, Maria Espinosa,
Mitch Horowitz , Ivan J. Houston
2009
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Doren Robbins , Charles L. Robinson &
Al Young ,
Herbert Gold , Janice Blue, C. Paolo Caruso,
Richard Bruce Nugent
2008
Joanne Kyger , Rosa Martha Villarreal,
Rebecca Solnit ,
Juan Felipe Herrera ,
Colleen J. McElroy ,
Cecil Brown ,
Colson Whitehead
2007
Will Alexander , Karla Andersdatter, Kathleen de Azevedo,
Steve Dalachinsky , Adam P. Kennedy,
William Poy Lee , Lorena Oropeza & Dionne Espinoza,
Harriet A. Washington
2006
David Hilliard , Mike Madison,
Gerald Haslam ,
Eric Gansworth , Jennifer Murphy,
Mona Lisa Saloy , Richard Silberg,
A. D. Winans
2005
David Meltzer ,
Neeli Cherkovski ,
Derek Walcott ,
Jeffery Paul Chan ,
Suhayl Saadi ,
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
2004
Edgardo Vega Yunqué , Noemi Sohn,
Lewis Robinson ,
Monique Truong ,
Jill Nelson , Fred Reiss
2003
Clive Matson and Allan Cohen,
Gail Tsukiyama ,
Paul Flores ,
Ghada Karmi ,
Jack Hirschman ,
Luis J. Rodriguez ,
Jewell Parker Rhodes
2002
A. Van Jordon ,
Nathalie Handal , Myronn Hardy,
Agha Shahid Ali , Charles Rubin
2001
Mary Monroe ,
Dan Leone ,
Yehuda Amichai ,
Leza Lowitz ,
Leslie Marmon Silko ,
Jervey Tervalon
2000
José García Villa ,
Elmaz Abinader ,
Wendy Doniger , Rabbi
Alan Lew ,
Nathan Englander ,
Eleanor Taylor Bland
1999 Darryl Babe Wilson, Mike Davis, Elaine Marcus Starkman & Marsha Lee Berkman,
Ruth Forman ,
Koon Woon ,
Clyde Taylor
1998 John Mulligan,
Ibrahim Fawal ,
Alfred Arteaga , Leslie Woodd, Marketa Groves
1997
Devorah Major ,
Percival Everett ,
Julie Shigekuni ,
Michael Lally ,
Kevin Killian ,
Ray Gonzalez
1996
Gerald Vizenor ,
Jerome Rothenberg &
Pierre Joris ,
Norman Mailer , Reginald Lockett,
Barbara Guest ,
Chitra Divakaruni
1995
Alma Luz Villanueva ,
E. Ethelbert Miller ,
Michael McClure ,
Marilyn Chin , Juvenal Acosta
1994 Peter J. Harris, Phyllis Burke, Brenda Lane Richardson, Clifford E. Trafzer,
Russell Leong ,
Jerome Rothenberg ,
Paula Woods , Felix Liddell
1993
Francisco X. Alarcón ,
Opal Palmer Adisa ,
Lucha Corpi , Sylvia Lopez-Medina,
Louis Owens ,
Sylvia Watanabe
1992
Luis J. Rodriguez ,
David Mura ,
Louis Edwards ,
Thomas King ,
David Ignatow ,
Julia Alvarez
1991
Gerald Vizenor ,
Jess Mowry ,
Li-Young Lee ,
Gerald Haslam ,
Joy Harjo ,
Gerald Stern
Gary Webb Anti-Censorship Award
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Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award
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Adelle Foley Award
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Reginald Martin Award for Excellence in Criticism
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