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PEN/Steven Kroll Award for Picture Book Writing ($5,000)

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an award established in memory of Steven Kroll to acknowledge the distinct literary contributions of picture book writers More

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PENPals: A Correspondence with Markus Zusak & Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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By: Markus Zusak, Susan Campbell Bartoletti | June 6, 2008

For me, a book doesn't belong to me; it belongs to the readers. In the case of Hitler Youth, the book belongs to those people who allowed me into… More

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Near the end of @SalmanRushdie's new novel, the narrator is blinded by an angry rival. It's eerily prescient: Rushdie lost an eye in an attack on him last year; however, the publisher says the manuscript was already completed. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-01-30/salman-rushdies-new-novel-victory-city-reminds-us-how-his-writing-changed-the-world

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PEN America said today it is deeply concerned over the arrest of “Cop City” protesters in #Georgia on “domestic terrorism” charges, saying it worried this could lead to a chilling effect on the #RightToProtest in the state. https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-arrest-of-protesters-in-georgia-on-broad-and-vaguely-worded-domestic-terrorism-charges-could-chill-the-right-to-protest/

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Censorship in K-12 classrooms has direct consequences for higher ed, according to @JimGrossmanAHA from @AHAhistorians and @JeremyCYoung from PEN America: https://pen.org/the-integrity-of-history-education/

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