Editors of literary magazines, journals, or cultural websites to submit debut short stories to the 2022 PEN/Dau Prizethrough 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.
PEN Out Loud 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 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 ››
Wednesday 11/10 | 7:30pm ET Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Brooklyn, NY
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 ››
Please note that the date for this event has been changed from Tuesday 11/2 to Wednesday 11/10.
The PEN America Translation Committee 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.
The PEN Ten with the 2021 Emerging Voices Fellows: “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.”
The PEN Ten with Victoria Chang: “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: On Horror and Humor with Melissa Lozada-Oliva
“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.”
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
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