The PEN/Bellwether Prize is awarded annually for a socially engaged fiction manuscript. The winner receives $25,000 and a publishing contract with Algonquin Books.
Susan Nussbaum was the 2012 winner for Good Kings, Bad Kings, and the manuscript has now become a full-fledged, beautiful book.
The Bellwether Prize was founded in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver. In 2012, it became the PEN/Bellwether Prize, making Nussbaum the first winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize.
Recent winners of the Bellwether Prize include former WA resident Heidi Durrow for her novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky and former Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association presenter Naomi Benaron for Running the Rift.
Good Kings Bad Kings is available now through your local independent bookstore.