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Events Calendar

May 2019

Thursday
May 2
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
World Press Freedom Day 2019 Banner

World Press Freedom Day: Atlanta, GA

The Carter Center
Thursday
May 2
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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Negotiating Difficult Conversations

Borough Manhattan Community College
Thursday
May 2
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
World Press Freedom Day 2019 Banner

World Press Freedom Day: Cincinnati, OH

Dpict
Thursday
May 2
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
World Press Freedom Day 2019 Banner

World Press Freedom Day: Dallas, TX

The Wild Detectives
Friday
May 3
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
World Press Freedom Day 2019 Banner

World Press Freedom Day: Denver, CO

BookBar
Saturday
May 4
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Writing In Exile A Conversation With Jennifer Egan And Aleksandar Hemon Photo

Writing in Exile: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan and Aleksandar Hemon

Venue SIX10, Feinberg Theater
Saturday
May 4
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
World Press Freedom Day: Chicago, IL with Jennifer Egan Photo

World Press Freedom Day: Chicago, IL

American Writers Museum
Sunday
May 5
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Little Haiti Book Festival Event Image

On the Page and On the Stage (Storytelling Workshop)

Little Haiti Cultural Center, Community Room
Monday
May 6
6:30 pm
Dani Shapiro and the cover of her book, Inheritance

PEN America Winter 2019 Authors' Evening with Dani Shapiro

Wednesday
May 8
12:00 am

Exposure: on writing in prison

The People’s Forum
Wednesday
May 8
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
World Press Freedom Day 2019 Banner

World Press Freedom Day: Austin, TX

CookBook Cafe
Thursday
May 9
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
World Press Freedom Day 2019 Banner

World Press Freedom Day: Detroit, MI

Pages Bookshop
Saturday
May 11
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
South Side Weekly Workshop Series: Ethics of Journalism

South Side Weekly Workshop Series: Ethics of Journalism

Experimental Station
Saturday
May 11
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
PEN West End Of Year Party And World Press Freedom Day

PEN West End of Year Party & World Press Freedom Day Celebration

Berkeley, CA
Saturday
May 11
4:15 pm – 5:15 pm
World Press Freedom Day 2019 Banner

Journalism as Storytelling: A Press Freedom Celebration, Minneapolis, MN

Downtown East
Monday
May 13
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Women's Work

LAXART
Monday
May 13
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Abu Shadi Illustration By Dan Rowell For 90 Days 90 Voices And The Chicago Reader

MENA: Telling the Stories of Refugees & Asylum Seekers

Evanston Public Library
Tuesday
May 14
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
World Voices Festival event Seeing Beyond Satire and stereotypes

Seeing Beyond Satire and Stereotypes

USC Pacific Asia Museum
Tuesday
May 14
7:00 pm

PEN America Winter 2019 Authors' Evening with James Clapper

Tuesday
May 14
7:30 pm

PEN America Winter 2019 Authors' Evening with Elliot Ackerman

Thursday – Sunday
May 16 – May 19
5:30 pm – 4:00 pm
2019 Greensboro Bound LIterary Festival Landing Page Header

PEN America at the 2019 Greensboro Bound Literary Festival

Greensboro, North Carolina
Friday
May 17
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Greensboro Bound: Strikes And Songs Activism In Appalachia Event Image

Strikes and Songs: Activism in Appalachia

Van Dyke Performance Space – Greensboro Cultural Center
Saturday
May 18
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Greensboro Bound Appalachian Reckoning Event Image

Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

Greensboro History Museum Auditorium
Saturday
May 18
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Greensboro Bound New Voices In Appalachian Writing Event Image

New Voices in Appalachian Writing

Greensboro History Museum Auditorium
Saturday
May 18
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Greensboro Bound Environment And Place In Contemporary Appalachia Event Photo

Environment And Place In Contemporary Appalachia

Greensboro History Museum Auditorium
Sunday
May 19
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
2019 Festival Open Secrets Workshop event image

Open Secrets: A Workshop

New School of Cooking, Pasadena
Wednesday – Sunday
May 29 – June 2
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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PEN America at BookExpo and BookCon 2019

Javits Center
New York, NY
Wednesday
May 29
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
book cover of The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Los Angeles Book Club: The God of Small Things

Blu Elefant Cafe
Thursday
May 30
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm
headshots of panelists at PEN Presents BookExpo event

PEN Presents: Breaking the News

Javits Center
New York, NY
Thursday
May 30
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Edward Bunker event Flyer

Celebrating Edward Bunker

The Road on Lankershim
Friday
May 31
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
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The Dallas Festival of Books and Ideas: The Literary City

Interabang Books

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