February 11–14:
AWP Chicago
PEN will be at this year's AWP conference in Chicago
and we'd love to see you. Email us if you'll be there, and don't miss the following events: PEN American Center http://www.pen.org/
NEXT WEEK
Tuesday, February 10:
Crossing Cultures, Changing Skins: Writing Across Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Culture
Where: Instituto Cervantes: 211-215 East 49th Street, NYCWhat time: 7 p.m.
With: Helen Benedict, Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Fatima Shaik, Cheryl Willis Hudson
Free and open to the public
Presented by the PEN Children's/Young Adult Book Committee
Multiculturalism has become a buzzword in children’s book publishing. And who would possibly argue against offering readers books that reflect the richness and variety of our world? But this shift in perspective also raises new questions for the writers, illustrators, and editors endeavoring to create new picture books, novels, and nonfiction. This panel will consider how they should approach this task honestly. What pleasures and pitfalls do they face—both from within, as they write or draw, and from without, as readers and reviewers react to their work?
February 10: Crossing Cultures, Changing Skins: Writing Across Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Culture
Masha Hamilton
When: Tuesday, February 10Where: Instituto Cervantes: 211-215 East 49th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Aves.), NYCWhat time: 7 p.m.With: Helen Benedict, Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Fatima Shaik, Cheryl Willis HudsonThis event is free and open to the public.
A PEN Children’s Book/Young Adult Book Event
Multiculturalism has become a buzzword in children’s book publishing. And who would possibly argue against offering readers books that reflect the richness and variety of our world? But this shift in perspective also raises new questions for the writers, illustrators, and editors endeavoring to create new picture books, novels, and nonfiction. This panel will consider how they should approach this task honestly. What pleasures and pitfalls do they face—both from within, as they write or draw, and from without, as readers and reviewers react to their work?Novelist, journalist, and Columbia professor Helen Benedict will discuss these issues with Sharon Dennis Wyeth, author of picture books, novels, and historical fiction; Fatima Shaik, educator and author; and Cheryl Willis Hudson, the publisher of the independent African-American publishing house Just Us Books.
Take the E/V to Lexington Avenue/53rd Street, or the 6 to 51st Street
MORE FEBRUARY EVENTS
February 17: PEN Writers' Roundtable: Masha HamiltonMasha Hamilton leads a discussion about fiction, foreign correspondence, and the writing life. Free and open to the public.
Writers' Roundtable: Masha Hamilton
When:
Tuesday, February 17
Where: Paragraph: 35 West 14th St., Third Floor, NYC
When: 6:30–8 p.m.
Event info: Please RSVP to fischkinb@aol.com Assume you have a reserved space unless you hear otherwise.
Free and open to the public. Membership in PEN is not required.
Novelist and journalist Masha Hamilton will lead the discussion at the next session of the PEN Writers’ Roundtable at Paragraph, a Manhattan workspace for writers. Please join us to discuss the art and craft of fiction writing, foreign correspondence, and the joys and rigors of the writer's life.
The PEN Writers Roundtable is moderated by Barbara Fischkin and Jennifer Vanderbes.
Masha Hamilton is the author of three award-winning novels: Staircase of a Thousand Steps, The Distance Between Us, and The Camel Bookmobile, recently optioned for a feature film. She worked as a foreign correspondent for five years in the Middle East, then five years in Moscow. She reported from Afghanistan in 2004, and in 2006 she traveled in Kenya to research The Camel Bookmobile and to interview street kids in Nairobi and drought and famine victims in the isolated northeast.
More from Masha Hamilton: • Latest report from Afghanistan• Masha Hamilton's web site
February 24:Global Correspondences: A Benefit for the PEN America Journal With: André Aciman, Edward Albee, Anthony Appiah, Ron Chernow, Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, Nathan Englander, Janet Malcolm, Francine Prose, and Sarah Ruhl
February 24: Global Correspondences: A Benefit for PEN America
When: Tuesday, February 24
Where: Cooper Union’s Great Hall: 7 East 7th, NYC
What time: 7 p.m.
With: André Aciman, Edward Albee, Anthony Appiah, Ron Chernow, Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, Nathan Englander, Janet Malcolm, Francine Prose, Sarah Ruhl and others
Tickets: http://www.smarttix.com/
PEN Members: click here for the discount code.
$15 general admission
$12 PEN Members and students
$50 admission plus reception
Please come to the first ever reading in support of PEN’s award-winning magazine, PEN America, which aims to fight cultural insularity by publishing work that speaks across political, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. The event will raise much needed funds for PEN America, thereby ensuring its future, and will help us bring the magazine to an increasing number of readers both here and abroad.Event admission plus reception with authors: $50: http://www.smarttix.com/ Don't miss this opportunity to support the journal by coming to the wine and cheese reception right after the event!PEN Members: Email us and we'll send you the discount code.
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