Communications Gap Year/Postgrad Fellowship Program 2022-2023
This Communications fellowship is designed to provide a crash course in nonprofit, fundraising, and advocacy communications at a dynamic organization that works on both domestic and international issues. More
Free Expression Leadership Fellows Program – Fall 2022
PEN America offers a 14-week Free Expression Leadership Fellows Program for undergraduate and graduate students passionate about human rights, the written word, and free expression. More
Prison and Justice Writing Editorial Fellow – Gap Year/Postgrad Fellowship Program 2022-23
PEN America offers a unique learning opportunity for individuals interested in addressing mass incarceration through content creation, digital engagement, and editorial support. More
Free Expression Programs – Gap Year/Postgrad Fellowship 2022-23
PEN America offers a unique learning opportunity for individuals who are passionate about human rights, free speech, and creative expression. More
Literary Programs – Gap Year/Postgrad Fellowship Program 2022-23
PEN America offers a unique learning opportunity for individuals who are passionate about literary and arts public programming, writing workshops and fellowships, and literary awards. More
Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) – Gap Year/Postgrad Fellowship Program 2022-23
PEN America offers a unique learning opportunity for individuals who are passionate about human rights, free speech, and creative expression, and interested in how the nonprofit sector works. More
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"Many Republican candidates are showing that they don't want–or need–to get their messages out via legacy media outlets. That can reduce the scrutiny they face while running for public office, hampering voters' ability to make informed choices," @titonka https://www.npr.org/2022/08/07/1115949410/republicans-have-long-feuded-with-the-mainstream-media-now-many-are-shutting-the
"Jamestown, Michigan voters opted last Tuesday to defund their library rather than tolerate books by or about #LGBTQ people—not even if the books are in the adult section of the library with a jacket cover 'warning,' not even if the books... have to be requested from a librarian"
“When we write to a prompt—whether it's answering a given question or writing under the constraints of a proposed structure—an alchemy takes place. A prompt bears an invocation to discover the position, flavor, and desire of our response.” Anjali Emsellem. https://www.poetryproject.org/publications/newsletter/269-summer-2022/poems-from-i-am-climbing-the-stairs-that-i-create-with-these-words-all-the-way-to-the-top
