Congratulations to Wendell Berry and Lauret Savoy, who have both made PEN America’s 2016 longlists.

Wendell Berry’s Our Only World: Ten Essays was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, which is awarded to a book of essays published in 2015 that exemplifies the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature. View the full PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award longlist here.

Lauret Savoy’s Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, which is awarded to book-length writings by authors of color. View the full PEN Open Book Award longlist here.