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2018 Los Angeles Literary Award Winners

“What Matters is the Writing Itself”: A PEN Ten Interview with the 2018 Los Angeles Literary Award Winners

Interview
By: Stacy Valis | October 12, 2018

"Every step of the writing process is also a choice to include or exclude, and being aware of our own biases in making those choices seems necessary." More

Jason Stanley

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Jason Stanley, Author of How Fascism Works

Interview
By: Lily Philpott | October 4, 2018

"Truth is one of the core ideals of my discipline. In my writing, I don’t as much try to navigate it as attempt to faithfully adhere to it." More

Jeff Biggers

“We’re All In the Resistance Now”: A PEN Ten Interview with Jeff Biggers

Interview
By: Ken Chen | September 23, 2018

"I view “resistance” through a fairly broad lens, and ultimately as part of our American credo to fend off attacks on democracy." More

Matthew Mendoza

The PEN Ten: An Interview with 2018 Prison Writing Award Winner Matthew Mendoza

Interview
By: Caits Meissner | September 20, 2018

"My best writing is about moments of magical awareness. I refused to give voice to the monotony, the bullying and violence that make up prison life." More

Hannah Howard

The PEN Ten with Hannah Howard

Interview
By: Hafizah Geter | September 6, 2018

"Truth is the starting point from which we can dig deeper and uncover more about our emotional lives and humanity. " More

The PEN Ten with Elizabeth Hawes

Interview
By: Caits Meissner | August 23, 2018

"While we cannot force people to absorb or connect with our words, we can write and know that we plant seeds and the garden will come." More

The PEN Ten with Diana Marcum

Interview
By: Hafizah Geter | August 9, 2018

"Freedom of expression . . . comes with a responsibility to speak out for the people who do not have that luxury and for any erosion of a writer’s… More

David Tomas Martinez

The PEN Ten with David Tomas Martinez

Interview
By: Lily Philpott | July 26, 2018

"As my work pulls directly from my life it is important for me to accurately balance who I’ve been, who I am, and who I want to become." More

The PEN Ten with the 2018 Emerging Voices

InterviewJuly 8, 2018

I feel like I’ve spent my entire lifetime resisting . . . I wonder, though, whether resisting is the same thing as resistance. More

Trifonia Melibea Obono

The PEN Ten with Trifonia Melibea Obono

Interview
Translated By: Lawrence Schimel | June 28, 2018

In this week's interview, translated by Lawrence Schimel, Kyle Dacuyan speaks to Trifonia Melibea Obono, a journalist and professor at the National University of Equatorial Guinea. More

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