The PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing given by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) is awarded biennially to "a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits." It was established in 1993.
Candidates include "current editors-in-chief, literary editors, and 'back-of-the-book' editors of serious general interest magazines, book reviews, or literary reviews and quarterlies, whose intellectual discernment and wide range of interests recall the late PEN member Nora Magid, who was for many years the literary editor of The Reporter."
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[1]
| Year | Recipient | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Peter Stitt, editor of The Gettysburg Review | |
| 1995 | Herbert Leibowitz, editor of Parnassus | [3] |
| 1997 | Wendy Lesser, editor of The Threepenny Review | |
| 1999 | Stan Lindberg, editor of The Georgia Review | |
| 2001 | Askold Melnyczuk, editor of AGNI | |
| 2003 | Robert Fogarty, editor of The Antioch Review | |
| 2005 | Willard Spiegelman, editor of Southwest Review | |
| 2007 | Bradford Morrow, editor of Conjunctions | [4] |
| 2009 | Hannah Tinti, editor of One Story | |
| 2011 | Brigid Hughes, founding editor of A Public Space | |
| 2013 | Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery, co-editors of Mother Jones | |
| 2015 | Rob Spillman, Tin House | [5][6][7] |
| 2017 | Michael Archer and Joel Whitney, Guernica | [8][9][10] |
| 2019 | Alexandra Watson, Apogee magazine | [11][12][13] |
| 2021 | Kwame Dawes, editor of Prairie Schooner | [14][15] |