Applications for the Emerging Voices Fellowship are due January 31st! The Fellowship provides a virtual five-month immersive mentorship program for early-career writers from communities that 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, LGBTQ+, immigrants, writers with disabilities, and those living outside of urban centers. Applications for this year’s fellowship are open from January 1–31, 2022.
The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison(Haymarket Books, Tuesday 1/11/22) is a new anthology from PEN America's Prison Writing Program that draws on the unique insights of more than 50 contributors to provide a road map for incarcerated people and their allies on creating a thriving writing life behind bars. Join us in February for a conversation between Caits Meissner, the anthology's editor and director of Prison and Justice Writing at PEN America, and contributor Reginald Dwayne Betts, moderated by author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Register for the event here ››
In our latest installment of the “PEN Pals” conversation series, begun by the PEN Children’s and Young Adult Books Committee as a response to recent efforts to ban books and intimidate teachers and librarians, authors Eliot Schrefer and Padma Venkatraman discuss the importance of LGBTQ+ representation in literature, allyship in the face of book bans, and the influence of queer writers on literary culture at large. Read their conversation here ››
The PEN Ten with Jean Chen Ho: “I made a lot of awful, sad things happen to these characters [in Fiona and Jane]—failed romances, betrayals of trust, family secrets revealed)—and still, they manage to survive and even find joy, together. Their enduring friendship, all its ups and downs, make that possible.”
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