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An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner Catherine Bai

InterviewOctober 31, 2022

In the story, it’s food and drink that similarly offer the main character a bodily connection to her heritage, even when linguistic and cultural ties have been eroded. More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner Preeti Vangani

InterviewOctober 26, 2022

Writing is, and will always be a subversive act. And what keeps me going is to keep reminding myself that the work itself, to create, is a reward unlike… More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: CK Kane

InterviewOctober 24, 2022

Anything that feels like you shouldn’t write about, go toward. It will find you again no matter what, so you might as well take  charge. More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner RZ Baschir

InterviewOctober 21, 2022

For me, horror and the surreal come from the same source: a psychic terror, a fear of the dark, a fixation on the devouring mouth, the thing that’s not… More

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An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Seth Wang

InterviewOctober 19, 2022

I’m not interested in the trauma plot. But I’m very interested in the way people use trauma and identity as an apologia for shitty behavior–especially my favs, cowardice and… More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Oyedotun Damilola Muees

InterviewOctober 17, 2022

The people in my story only had themselves to make their community better, just like the people where I served. More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Edward Salem

InterviewOctober 12, 2022

Translating can make a story overly accessible in a way that’s patronizing. I’d rather have the reader experience the unfamiliarity of being in a foreign place. More

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PEN America Announces Emerging Writers’ Literary Prizes

Press ReleaseMarch 2, 2021

Today PEN America announced the winners of its emerging writers’ prizes, the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. More

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2019 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers recognizes 12 emerging fiction writers each year for their debut short story More

A Slim Anthology that Encompasses Worlds: PEN America Debut Short Stories 2017

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By: Michelle Ming Xu | September 13, 2017

Hours later and several stories in, it became a process of cheating myself: “The next story is only six pages.” “It’s only 2am.” “The next one will only take…” More

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As reporters respond to the tragic shooting in Nashville, @Poynter⁩ offers some valuable tips for careful reporting that can help counter the spread of confusion or falsehoods. https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2023/covenant-school-shooting-nashville-trans-manifesto-gender-identity/

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