Plus: Join us for our citywide celebration of Earth Day

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2022 World Voices Festival Tickets On Sale Now ([link removed])


** Wednesday 5/11 - Saturday 5/14
NYC and LA
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The World Voices Festival is back—live and in person. Get your tickets now! ([link removed])

Featured Festival authors this year include: Natalie Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Abdulrazak Gurna, Saidiya Hartman, Sheila Heti, Mieko Kawakami, Andrey Kurkov, Eileen Myles, Jason Reynolds, Warsan Shire, Gary Shteyngart, Leïla Slimani, Alejandro Zambra, and many more. Over four days, 80+ writers from 25 countries will be featured in engaging talks, panels, readings, and performances in New York City’s Village and greater Los Angeles.

Call for Volunteers: We are looking for volunteers to help with our events at various venues around New York’s Greenwich Village. There are many roles for volunteers, who help us make the festival run smoothly for authors and audiences. To sign up, complete this form by April 26th ([link removed]) ›› ([link removed])
Livestream: New York Theatre Artists for Ukraine ([link removed])


** Saturday 4/16 | 10am - 10pm ET
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The New York Theatre Community will come together tomorrow, Saturday April 16th, for a 12-hour livestream of readings and conversations. We will share our outrage at the bombing of the Donetsk Drama Theater in Mariupol in Ukraine where 300 people died while seeking shelter. PEN America—with Neil Blackadder (U.S.), Amin Erfani (Iran/U.S.), Allison Markin Powell (U.S.) and Caridad Svitch (Argentina/Cuba/U.S.)—will present readings and remarks about translating in wartime. Learn more here ›› ([link removed])

Your Options on Options ([link removed])


** Wednesday 4/20 | 8pm ET
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What does it mean for a book to have an “option”? How do you translate Hollywood legalese? What rates do a studio or production company typically offer to an author whose material they’re purchasing the rights to? How long does it take for a deal to go from a draft to an executed contract? You have representation—a lawyer, maybe an agent—but what are the roles they play in putting this arrangement together and what red flags can they help you recognize? To shine a light on these questions and more, join us for this insightful discussion. Learn more and register here ›› ([link removed])

A Citywide Poetic Celebration of Earth Day ([link removed])


** Friday 4/22 | 4pm - 7pm ET
Citywide
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In partnership with Ars Poetica and PEN America, the NYC Literary Action Coalition will host a citywide literary celebration of Earth Day. The Coalition will send Ars Poetica poets with their typewriters to independent bookstores across the five boroughs to type poems for patrons and community members about Earth Day. New Yorkers across the city will have the opportunity to chat with poets about their biggest inspirations from the natural world, their fears about the climate crisis, and their dreams for a more environmentally conscious New York City. Each person will receive a free personalized poem as a symbol of their investment in creating a more sustainable and just New York City.

Join us in this celebration at any of the following independent bookstores: Astoria Bookshop (Queens), Bronx Bound Books – Montefiore Hospital (The Bronx), Every Thing Goes Book Cafe and Neighborhood Stage (Staten Island), Quimby’s Bookstore NYC (Brooklyn), Word Up Community Bookshop (Uptown Manhattan), Yu and Me Books (Downtown Manhattan). Learn more here ›› ([link removed])
SUBMIT: PEN America's Literary Grants ([link removed])


** Applications close June 1, 2022
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Have a work in progress that could use some support? Submissions are now open for PEN America's Literary Grants. The PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants ([link removed]) , PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature ([link removed]) , PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children's and Young Adult Novelists ([link removed]) , and PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History ([link removed]) support writers and translators to continue their important work. Applications close June 1, 2022.

PEN America congratulations Anton Hur, 2020 Heim Translation Fund Grant recipient for Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny, on being shortlisted for the International Booker ([link removed]) !

The PEN Ten ([link removed])

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The PEN Ten with Damon Galgut: ([link removed]) “Language is at the core of the literary experience, and should try to extend itself to its fullest power, not to contract and tame itself.”

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The PEN Ten with Azar Nafisi: ([link removed]) “Do not allow the present moment to control your writing; rather, write to control the seemingly uncontrollable reality.”
From Our Partners
TNR Salon Series With Kim Kelly ([link removed])


** Tuesday 5/10 | 7pm ET
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Join The New Republic for a livestream of our Salon book series featuring author Kim Kelly and Laura Marsh, TNR’s literary editor, as they talk about Fight Like Hell, a definitive history of the labor movement and the people who risked everything to win fair wages, better working conditions, disability protections, and an eight-hour workday. Learn more and register here ›› ([link removed])

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