PEN America Publishes Fourth DREAMing Out Loud Anthology: Original Short Stories, Essays, Plays and Poems from Young Migrant Authors in New York City
“The extraordinary challenges and backgrounds that bind these writers together as New Yorkers make for powerful reading,” said PEN America’s Jared Jackson. “They offer a remarkable and enduring window… More
September Bronx Writers Center Dispatch: Orlando Ferrand
Writer, artist, and PEN member Orlando Ferrand reflects on his tumultuous adolescence in Cuba, where politics and sex made uneasy bedfellows. More
August: Bronx Writers Center Dispatch
In his latest dispatch, Bronx Writers Center Director Charlie Vázquez shares more about the Bronx Memoir Project, as well as literary and artistic events in NYC's northernmost borough. More
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