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** Dare to Speak: A Reading List ([link removed][UNIQID])
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** Picks from PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel
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This week's reading list features picks from Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America and author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All ([link removed][UNIQID]) , on how we can ensure robust defenses for free speech while upholding our commitment to equality and inclusion in a diverse society. Read more ›› ([link removed][UNIQID])


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** PEN America Literary Awards and Grants
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From now through August 15, 2020, publishers and agents may submit to our Book Awards ([link removed][UNIQID]) , and Members may nominate writers ([link removed][UNIQID]) 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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Since 1963, the PEN America Literary Awards Program has honored outstanding voices in literature across diverse genres. From now through August 1, 2020, apply to the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists ([link removed][UNIQID]) and the PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History ([link removed][UNIQID]) .

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PEN Emerging Voices 2020 Reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
Hammer Museum | Tuesday 7/28

A reading from the 2020 PEN Emerging Voices Fellows Damien Belliveau, Megan Dorame, Shannon Gatewood, M. Kiguwa, and Claire Lin, with personal introductions by mentors Chris L. Terry, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Rachel M. Harper, Antonia Crane, and Charles Yu. RSVP now ›› ([link removed][UNIQID])

And tune in on Monday 7/27 at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET for an IG Live conversation @penamerica ([link removed][UNIQID]) between Damien Belliveau and Chris L. Terry about the Emerging Voices Fellowship and their experiences as a fellow and a mentor!
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DREAMing Out Loud: Virtual Reading & Book Release ([link removed][UNIQID])
PEN World Voices Festival | Thursday 7/30

Join us to celebrate the courageous new voices in the release of this year's DREAMing Out Loud anthology with readings from our students and stories from our teaching artists Álvaro Enrigue, Cherry Lou Sy, and Hannah Kingsley-Ma, and special guests Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Sonia Guiñansaca, Martyna Majok, Javier Zamora, and Jenny Zhang. RSVP now ›› ([link removed][UNIQID])
World Voices Festival Author Reading Lists

Check out our latest book lists, curated by our PEN 2020 World Voices Festival ([link removed][UNIQID]) authors.

› The University and the City with Esther Allen ([link removed][UNIQID]) : Translator and CUNY professor Esther Allen shares a reading list of books connected in some way both to CUNY and to New York City.

› Comfort in Wisdom with Szczepan Twardoch ([link removed][UNIQID]) : Szczepan Twardoch shares illuminating texts that examine history and culture for difficult times.

› Drama as Reading with Si’an CHEN ([link removed][UNIQID]) : Playwright and translator Si’an CHEN curates a diverse, immersive selection of plays that are full of energy.
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** The PEN Pod ([link removed][UNIQID])
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** PEN America's daily podcast
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› On Race, Place, and Belonging with Sejal Shah ([link removed][UNIQID]) : "I think that when we describe the particularities of a place that we can see that there are so many individual stories."

› On Systemic Racism in Hollywood with Michelle Amor, Hilliard Guess, and Bianca Sams from the Writers Guild of America West ([link removed][UNIQID]) : "I’m big on writing stories, and no one should be telling our story but us. Period."

› Confronting a History of Hate with Seyward Darby ([link removed][UNIQID]) : "White nationalism is just what white supremacy looks like when you see it in a funhouse mirror. It’s distorted, but really, it’s familiar."

› A Reckoning in Hollywood with Kim Masters ([link removed][UNIQID]) : "True power—defined as the ability to get something made because you feel like it...is in very few hands."

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** Just Press Play ([link removed][UNIQID])
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** Writers bring you the music they love
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› Just Press Play with Abdellah Taïa ([link removed][UNIQID]) : Abdellah Taïa, the first openly gay Arab writer from Morocco, dedicates his playlist to the planet we call home.

› Just Press Play with Chigozie Obioma ([link removed][UNIQID]) : Chigozie Obioma, author of Thehttps://bookshop.org/books/the-fishermen-9780316338356/9780316338356Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities, both finalists for the Booker Prize, shares a playlist of songs that he writes to.

› Just Press Play with Bela Shayevich ([link removed][UNIQID]) : Bela Shayevich, the visual artist, writer, and translator who is best known for translating Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, provides a darkwave playlist with happy vibes.

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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.
› Peter Meech ([link removed][UNIQID]) , author of Billy (the Kid)
› Lynn Steger Strong ([link removed][UNIQID]) , author of Want
› Zaina Arafat ([link removed][UNIQID]) , author of You Exist Too Much
› Megha Majumdar ([link removed][UNIQID]) , author of A Burning

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