NEWS AT PEN
PEN Announces the Winners of the 2009 Beyond
Margins Award
The PEN/Beyond Margins Award celebrates outstanding books by writers of color published in the United States during the previous year. The 2009 winners are Uwem Akpan for Say You're One of Them, Juan Felipe Herrera for Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems, and Lily Hoang for Changing.
>> Check out this September's online feature for excerpts from their work
2010 Literary Awards Call for Submissions
PEN American Center is now accepting submissions and nominations for the 2010 Literary Awards. PEN’s awards program is the most comprehensive and prestigious in the nation, honoring achievements in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation, playwriting, and editing. For a complete list of awards and submission guidelines, visit www.pen.org/awards.
ADVOCACY NEWS
Imprisoned Writers Released
PEN welcomes the release of journalist Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh, who had originally been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, and Ilham Tohti, a member of the Uighur PEN Center who was detained in Beijing during the unrest in Xinjiang Province. >> More
PEN Goes to Washington
Next week, PEN American Center will be on Capitol Hill pressing two of PEN’s top agenda items. Representatives of PEN American Center and the Independent Chinese PEN Center will visit House members to enlist support for a resolution calling for the release of our colleague Liu Xiaobo in China. We will also join our partners in the Campaign for Reader Privacy for meetings with senators and representatives to press for the full restoration of protections for bookstore and library records.
UPCOMING EVENTS
September 13:
PEN at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Stop by the PEN booth to meet PEN Members and staff, learn how you can get involved with PEN's mission to defend free expression in the U.S. and abroad, and check out the live recording of PEN podcast conversations. At 1:00 p.m., on the International Stage, PEN will team up with Tin House to present Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, with Dale Peck, Francine Prose, Anya Ulinich, Vadim Yarmolinets, Emily Gould, and Dmitry Danilov. >>More
September 21:
Writers' Roundtable with Nicholas Dawidoff
Join Jennifer Vanderbes, Chair of PEN's Writers' Roundtable Committee, and Nicholas Dawidoff for a discussion on craft and the writing life. >> More
October 13:
Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the “War on Terror”
PEN American Center joins forces with American Civil Liberties Union to contront the acts of torture and abuse carried out on by the United States government since 9/11. Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, and Art Spiegelman take the stage with Matthew Alexander (former U.S. interrogator and author of How to Break a Terrorist) and Amrit Singh (staff attorney at the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project) to read from the recently-released secret documents that have brought these abuses to light and to reflect on how we can move forward as a nation. >> More
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