Awards — Arthur Longworth

Grants & Fellowship Awards

2019 - 2020 PEN America Writing For Justice Fellowship. Arthur teamed with journalist Maurice Chammah, staff writer at The Marshall Project, to develop Journal of a State-Raised Prisoner in the Age of Mass Incarceration, a book-length compilation of creative nonfiction essays that elucidates the foster-care-to-prison pipeline.
2019 Solitary Confinement Reporting Project grant award, April 9th, 2019 (Arthur is one of only fourteen incarcerated writers in the nation to win this grant).

2017 PEN Prison Writing Award, 1st Place Memoir, "How to Kill Someone", PEN American Center, NYC (PEN.org) (this essay was nominated by PEN for the Pushcart Prize).
2016 PEN Prison Writing Award, 3^rd Place Essay, “The Yard: Mass Incarceration on the Inside”, PEN American Center, NYC (PEN.org).
2016 PEN Prison Writing Award, Honorable Mention Fiction, “The Ocean”, PEN American Center, NYC (PEN.org).
2016 InterNational Prisoner’s Family Conference, 1^st Place Memoir, “Walla Walla: The Experience of Growing Up in Mass Incarceration”.
2013 PEN Prison Writing Award, 2^nd Place Memoir, “The Chain”, PEN American Center, NYC (PEN.org).
2010 PEN Prison Writing Award, 1^st Place Memoir, “Walla Walla IMU”, PEN American Center, NYC (PEN.org).
2008 PEN Prison Writing Award, Honorable Mention Essay, “The Hole”, PEN American Center, NYC (PEN.org).