PEN at the National Black Writers' Conference: March 25–28

PEN will be at the Tenth National Black Writers' Conference at the Medgar Evers College, CUNY in Brooklyn. Stop by and say hello!
Please email if you will be attending.

More information can be found here: http://www.nationalblackwritersconference.org/home.html

NBCC Honors PEN with Lifetime Achievement Award

The Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award recognizes long-standing and outstanding dedication to book culture. [More]

MEMBERS RALLY

Special thanks to our Members who showed their support at the rally for Liu Xiaobo. Have comments or photos from the event? Please post them in the comments section here.

Want to stage a rally in your own city? You can find relevant materials here.

Please contact us for more details.

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 New York Metropolitan Area

• 3/14: A Celebration of Haitian Culuture: Benefit for Earthquake Relief

• 3/13-15: Performance: Kaca Celan

• 3/16: Discussion: Marilyn Hacker

• 4/9: Reading: Eileen Myles

• 4/15: Reading: Julie Agoos & Pamela Laskin

• 4/19: Reading: Jayne Lyn Stahl

• 5/10: Reading: Colum McCann

U.S.

• 2/11-4/2: Albuquerque, NM: Discussion: Lisa Lenard-Cook

• 2/25: Orem, UT: Reading: Nahid Rachlin

• 3/9: Seattle WA: Reading: Michael Chabon

• 3/11: Albuquerque, NM: Discussion: Lisa Lenard-Cook

• 3/25: Cullowhee, NC: Reading: Nahid Rachlin

• 3/31: Aurora, NY: Reading: Nahid Rachlin

• 4/6:  Las Vegas, NV: Discussion: Blurring Borders:Junot Díaz, Yiyun Li, and Pablo Medina

Abroad

• 11/11-14–6/27: Abuja,Nigeria: Tess Onwueme: Staging Women, Youth, Globalization and Eco-Literature; An International Conference

Lisa Lenard-Cook Teaches Fiction Class

The Upstairs Room to be Performed in Reiss' Holland Home

PEN Mourns the Loss of Howard Zinn

PEN Members Nominated for 2009 National Book Awards

PEN Mourns the Loss of Sarah E. Wright

Dr. Tess Onwueme Receives Prestigious Award from African Literature Association

Ami Sands Brodoff wins the 2009 Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction

Playwright Doug Wright to Attend Playwrights' Retreat

Fanny Howe wins Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

PEN members honored by Academy of Arts and Letters Awards

Observator Cultural names Norman Manea winner of the Gheorghe Crãciun Lifetime Achievement Award

Russell Banks, Robert Caro and Daniel Halpern win Writers for Writers Awards

PEN Remembers Dr. John Hope Franklin

Albert Russo is a winner of Book and Author 2008 and a winner and finalist of the National Indie Excellence 2009 Awards

John Oakes and Colin Robinson's OR Books Sell Rights to Going Rouge

• Albert Russo: The Black Ancestor

• Albert Russo and Martin Tucker: Boundaries of Exile/Conditions of Hope

• Geoffrey Philp: Who's Your Daddy? And Other Stories

• Steven G. Kellman: M. E. Ravage's An American in the Making

• Fran Manushkin: The Tushy Book

• Mumia Abu-Jamal: Jailhouse Lawyers 

• Thomas Bass: The Spy Who Loved Us

• David Chacko: Devil's Feathers

• Harvey Jacobs: Side Effects

• Stephanie Strickland: Zone: Zero

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