2015 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction
In selecting Arna Bontemps Hemenway, the judges wrote: “In Elegy on Kinderklavier, attention is salvation. These stories are not afraid to stare in unblinking and finely grained detail at… More
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Excited to expand your reading this year? Some of @EW's favorite authors share their most anticipated books of 2022: https://bit.ly/3FW4lw1.
Victory! for @PENamerica Member Lora Burnett in her First Amendment suit against Collin College. Congrats @LDBurnett, glad you get to put this debacle behind you. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2022/01/25/former-collin-college-professor-who-claimed-retaliation-over-tweets-resolves-lawsuit-with-school/
PEN America Trustee @FranklinLeonard's @theblcklst will extend its work into theater, inviting playwrights and musical writers to share their work with gatekeepers in the theater, film and television industries. https://nyti.ms/3u52aEp
