The Writers’ Emergency Fund is here to help

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Dear Friend,

For those of us who know what it’s like to be a struggling writer, these are scary times.

[link removed][UNIQID] you missed the front page of The New York Times last week, the unemployment claim numbers are staggering. It’s perilous for people across the country, but writers—whether they lecture, teach, wait tables, or otherwise scrape together a living—have been particularly hard hit as events are canceled, venues close, theaters shutter, and freelance work dries up.

That’s why PEN America is stepping up, and we need your help ([link removed][UNIQID]) .

PEN America is working to expand its longstanding Writers’ Emergency Fund ([link removed][UNIQID]) and putting in place a streamlined process for getting needed cash to published writers who face acute financial need. In the first 48 hours of the revamped fund, we received on average two applications per hour. At that rate, even with modest grants to writers most in need, that fund will quickly be depleted.

Today, I’m asking you to donate to the PEN America Writers’ Emergency Fund.
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Rest assured, 100% of your donation will go directly to writers most directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: fiction and non-fiction writers, poets and playwrights, screenwriters, translators, and journalists. Airlines and big companies are getting bailouts, but writers aren’t. Together, let’s do what we can to help.

Please make a contribution to the Writers’ Emergency Fund ([link removed][UNIQID]) today.

Yours truly,
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Tayari Jones

PS - The newly enacted federal CARES Act increases the tax deductibility of donations, whether you itemize or not. Thank you for being generous! ([link removed][UNIQID])

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