[VIRTUAL] PEN America at the Dallas Literary Festival

This month, the PEN America Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter is proud to present a series of events as part of the Dallas Literary Festival. This virtual festival features a variety of incredible authors, poets, and journalists speaking about their work. Check out the events below and be sure to register through the event page to receive Zoom details.

Family, Fiction, and Fever Dreams: A Strange Object Presents Farthest South
Saturday, March 27, 2021
4:00pm – 5:00pm CT

Join the Dallas Literary Festival and PEN America Dallas/Fort Worth for a conversation with Ethan Rutherford, author of Farthest South and Other Stories, and Jill Meyers, editorial director of A Strange Object and cofounder of Lit Crawl Austin.

What Does it Mean to Be an Adult
Sunday, March 28, 2021
1:00pm – 2:00pm CT

Join the Dallas Literary Festival and PEN America Dallas/Fort Worth for a conversation with Julie Lythcott-Haims, CBS This Morning contributor and author of How to Raise an Adult, and Laura Harris, Emmy Award-winning coanchor of NBC 5 Today. This conversation will feature an introduction by Lauren Embrey, president of the Embrey Family Foundation.

LitNight Reading Series: Dallas Debut Authors
Sunday, March 28, 2021
3:00pm – 4:00pm CT

PEN America Dallas/Fort Worth is proud to present the LitNight Reading Series with Dallas debut authors. Featured writers include Sebastián H. Páramo, poet and founding editor of THE BOILER (moderator); Jenny Bhatt, author of Each of Us Killers; A. Kendra Greene, author of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See; Seraphina Nova Glass, author of Someone’s Listening; Simon Han, author of Nights When Nothing Happened; Matt Morton, author of Improvisation Without Accompaniment; and Mike Soto, author of A Grave Is Given Supper.