Ai Weiwei on November 10

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SUBMIT: The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers Closes November 15 ([link removed])
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Editors of literary magazines, journals, or cultural websites to submit debut short stories to the 2022 PEN/Dau Prize ([link removed]) through November 15. The twelve winning writers each receive a $2,000 cash prize and will be published by Catapult in their annual anthology, Best Debut Short Stories: The PEN America Dau Prize ([link removed]) .

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PEN Out Loud: Fall 2021 ([link removed])
PEN Out Loud ([link removed]) focuses on amplifying diverse voices and convening vital conversations with authors, poets, journalists, artists, and activists. You can still get tickets now for our final PEN Out Loud event, featuring Sandra Cisneros with Jaime Manrique.


** PEN Out Loud: Sandra Cisneros with Jaime Manrique ([link removed])
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** Wednesday 11/3 | 8pm ET
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PEN America Literary Award recipient Sandra Cisneros joins PEN Out Loud to celebrate her new book Martita, I Remember You / Martita, te recuerdo. In a dual language edition, translated by Liliana Valenzuela, the novella tells the story of friendship between three women who over the years are dispersed over three continents. Cisneros will be in conversation with novelist, poet, essayist, and translator Jaime Manrique to discuss the book and its “tribute to the life-changing power of youthful friendship.” Learn more and register here ›› ([link removed])


** Ai Weiwei: 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows ([link removed])
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** Wednesday 11/10 | 7:30pm ET
Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Brooklyn, NY
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Join world-renowned artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei on the release date of his highly anticipated memoir, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows. While being held by Chinese authorities in 2011, Ai decided to write a memoir about his extraordinary life and the legacy of his father Ai Qing, the nation’s most celebrated poet who was banished from society. At once ambitious and intimate, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows serves as a timely reminder of the urgent need to protect freedom of expression. Learn more and register here ›› ([link removed])

Please note that the date for this event has been changed from Tuesday 11/2 to Wednesday 11/10.


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** Thursday 11/18 – Friday 12/17 | 10am – 3pm ET
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The PEN America Translation Committee ([link removed]) invites emerging translators to a series of virtual events where translators can network with industry-recognized editors and publishers. Each event will have a limited capacity so participants will have time for meaningful conversations. Participants should come prepared to make connections, share expertise, and build relationships that can grow into professional collaborations.

Participants must apply to join the series, by October 31st. ([link removed]) This series is intended for emerging translators (those who have published no more than one full-length book with a publisher in the U.S. or UK).

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The PEN Ten ([link removed])

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The PEN Ten with the 2021 Emerging Voices Fellows: ([link removed]) “People need stories for different reasons. Perhaps to find the meaning of life or maybe to explore other ideas and worlds. Perhaps to escape from our ordinary lives. To understand our ordinary lives. To find our place in the world. To find our identities. To be happy.”

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The PEN Ten with Victoria Chang: ([link removed]) “Often if I wait long enough, which isn’t usually by choice, but living and growing older, reading, and time, can lead to interesting things in poems. The interesting paradox is that looking at my writing from the outside, they might seem preconceived, but they aren’t really.”
The PEN Pod ([link removed])
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The PEN Pod: On Horror and Humor with Melissa Lozada-Oliva ([link removed])
“I think a lot of times, I’ve used humor to disguise the shit that I’m dealing with deep down. With this book, I really wanted humor to be an avenue, or like a bridge, into something that was harder to face.”

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Symphony Space Presents
Thalia Book Club: SARAH RUHL, SMILE: THE STORY OF A FACE ([link removed])
Wed. 11/10 | 7pm ET
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
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The author and MacArthur Award-winning playwright behind the Pulitzer Prize finalist In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) sits down with Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) to discuss her extraordinary memoir. In a series of piercing, witty, and lucid meditations, Ruhl chronicles her 10-year journey starting with her Bell’s palsy diagnosis and the transformation that followed. MORE INFO ([link removed])

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