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** Coming of Age: A Pride Reading List ([link removed][UNIQID])
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** Picks from Authors and PEN America Staff
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This week’s reading list includes recommendations from YA authors in the LGBTQIA+ community and our own PEN America staff. These books, all by LGBTQIA+ authors, ask us to question the notions of sexuality and race that many of us grew up with, deconstruct our societal norms of family and community, and reimagine the future while remembering the past. Read more ›› ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Translations for Our Moment: ([link removed][UNIQID])
A Reading List from the PEN Translation Committee ([link removed][UNIQID])
These translations narrate journeys and escapes, love and camaraderie, state terror and personal trauma, activism and engagement, existential anxieties and more. Read more ›› ([link removed][UNIQID])

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World Voices Festival Author Reading Lists
Check out book lists curated by our PEN 2020 World Voices Festival authors:
› Alternative Childhoods with Andrés Barba ([link removed][UNIQID])
› Let’s Be Human(e) with Ananda Naima González ([link removed][UNIQID])
› Finding Meaning with Peter Stamm ([link removed][UNIQID])


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** The PEN Pod ([link removed][UNIQID])
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› Challenging Our Paradigms with Julia Alvarez ([link removed][UNIQID]) : "We are living a deeply mythic moment. Let this moment not be lost on us.”

› On the Small Things We Cannot See That Change Our Lives with Ed Yong ([link removed][UNIQID]) : “The pandemic narratives we tell are much too simple and much too polarized."

› On the Inequities of Survival with Megan Giddings ([link removed][UNIQID]) : "Our country has a very difficult...history of seeing anyone who they don’t see as a person, as being good fuel to test an idea on.”

› Everywhere You Don’t Belong with Gabriel Bump ([link removed][UNIQID]) : "Black writers are doing tremendous work witnessing and transcribing what they see around them."


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** These Truths ([link removed][UNIQID])
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› Realizing a New Theatre with Lynn Nottage and Jeremy O. Harris ([link removed][UNIQID]) : In our final These Truths conversation, genre-breaking Black playwrights Lynn Nottage and Jeremy O. Harris join forces for a conversation about some of the most compelling questions facing modern theatre.

› Round and Round Together with Fatima Shaik, Amy Nathan, and Sharon Langley ([link removed][UNIQID]) : Fatima Shaik speaks with Amy Nathan and Sharon Langley about their picture book, A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story. These award-winning authors discuss how to explain segregation and the Movement for Black Lives to kids.
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** The PEN Ten ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Catch up on our latest interviews with authors discussing the writing process and what they’re reading now.
› Silvia Moreno-Garcia ([link removed][UNIQID]) , author of Mexican Gothic
› Jean Kyoung Frazier ([link removed][UNIQID]) , author of Pizza Girl
› Mark Doty ([link removed][UNIQID]) , author of What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

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Get Inspired with Writers Who Cook ([link removed][UNIQID])

› Stone Soup with James Sie: ([link removed][UNIQID]) "Nowadays, I have a certain reckless desire to rely more on my own intuition and whatever resources I have on hand."

› Ooey Gooey Chewy Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Alex Espinoza: ([link removed][UNIQID]) "If a disaster’s coming, I told myself, I’m going to sweeten it up just a little bit."

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** PEN Emerging Voices 2020 ([link removed][UNIQID])

presented by the Hammer Museum
Tuesday, July 28, 5pm PT

This live online event presents 2020 PEN Emerging Voices Fellows Damien Belliveau, Megan Dorame, Shannon Gatewood, M. Kiguwa, and Claire Lin reading together for the last time, with personal introductions by mentors Chris L. Terry, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Rachel M. Harper, Antonia Crane, and Charles Yu. ** RSVP now ›› ([link removed][UNIQID])
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** KWELI INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL ([link removed][UNIQID])

July 16 – September 17

Kweli International Literary Festival 2020 has been reimagined as a 10-week VIRTUAL festival to mark Kweli’s 10-year anniversary. Featuring readings, conversations, master classes, and workshops, along with presentations from keynote speakers Nikky Finney and Edwidge Danticat.
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SUBMIT NOW

From now through August 15, 2020, publishers and agents may submit to our Book Awards, and Members may nominate writers for our esteemed Career Achievement Awards. In 2021, with the help of our partners, PEN America will confer over twenty distinct awards and grants, awarding over $350,000 to writers and translators.

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DARE TO SPEAK by Suzanne Nossel
On Sale July 28, 2020

From PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel, Dare to Speak is a a vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today while also cultivating a more inclusive public culture.

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