Plus: Join us for the next PEN Out Loud on March 4

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** Apply for the Emerging Voices Fellowship by March 17 ([link removed])
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The Emerging Voices Fellowship ([link removed]) is an immersive mentorship program for early-career writers who are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing world. The program is committed to cultivating the careers of Black writers, and serves writers who identify as Indigenous, persons of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, writers with disabilities, and those living outside of urban centers. Applications for this year’s fellowship are open through March 17, 2021. Learn more and apply now ›› ([link removed])


** The 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists ([link removed])
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Did you see our announcement last week about the Finalists of the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards? Read Literary Awards Program Director Jane Marchant's essay in The Paris Review ([link removed]) about this year's finalists, and check out the full list here ›› ([link removed])


** PEN Out Loud x Asian American Writers’ Workshop: Kazuo Ishiguro with Jia Tolentino ([link removed])
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Thursday 3/4 | 6pm ET / 3pm PT
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Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro joins PEN Out Loud and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop to commemorate Klara and the Sun, his first novel since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ishiguro will be joined in conversation with essayist and The New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino to discuss the narrative’s themes of service, sacrifice, and what it means to love. BUY NOW ›› ([link removed])

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The PEN Ten with Zak Salih: ([link removed]) “So much of my journey as a writer has mimicked my earlier journey in coming out, in the sense that for a long time, I would hesitate to call myself a ‘writer’ out of shame. . . But the truth is that I’ve been a writer since I was a child, whether I called myself one or not.”

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The PEN Ten with Te-Ping Chen: ([link removed]) “So often in China, we tend to focus on the government and think about the Chinese Communist Party as the central character. And yet, there’s so much more to the country—and people with their own highly individual lives and stories—that also feels urgent and important to evoke for readers.”
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Writing as Medicine with Sandra Cisneros and Jane Marchant: ([link removed]) “I ask you to go to your wounds—what are wounds that you have that give you a special vision for seeing others with that same wound, and to write from that place. That way, you can heal yourself while you’re also assisting others.”
—Sandra Cisneros

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Reckoning with Aftershocks with Nadia Owusu: ([link removed]) “I was interrogating stories I’d been given that didn’t serve me, and trying to write stories that I could live inside of that would help me move toward healing and deeper connection to my family, deeper understanding, compassion, community, and knowledge of and love for the places that I came from.”

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