Announcing the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists and Judges!

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** The 2020 Literary Awards Longlists ([link removed][UNIQID])
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** PEN America Literary Awards Team
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We’re honored to announce the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists ([link removed][UNIQID]) ! You can learn more about this year’s judging panels here ([link removed][UNIQID]) . Finalists will be announced in January, and the winners revealed live on March 2, 2020, at The Town Hall in New York City. We hope you’ll save the date! Read more » ([link removed][UNIQID])


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This week, we spoke with Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana (Flatiron Books, 2019). “Writing nuanced and complicated characters is already an act of resistance against the stereotypes in the entertainment and corporate culture.”

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** Lily Philpott
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Earlier this month, we spoke with Dora Ahmad, editor of The Penguin Book of Migration Literature (Penguin Classics, 2019). “The biggest threat to free expression has always been, and will continue to be, unequal access to publication and publicity.”

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