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[VIRTUAL] In Fellowship: An Evening with the 2019-2020 Writing for Justice Fellows

Thursday, January 14, 2021 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm ET
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PEN America Announces Inaugural Recipients of L’Engle-Rahman Prize for Mentorship

Press ReleaseNovember 11, 2020

"What’s most exciting to me about Madeleine L’Engle’s early and foundational participation in our mentor program is that her approach speaks to the mutually transformational relationships available to those… More

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The PEN Pod: Elevating Indigenous Authors with David Heska Wanbli Weiden

InterviewOctober 20, 2020

“I hope that the novel speaks not just to Native readers, but to folks who want to learn about voices that they may not be familiar with.” More

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Local Journalist Heroes: Arthur Longworth

InterviewMay 1, 2020

“The media is missing the story of how incapable prison medical services are of treating infected prisoners or carrying out testing.” More

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Local Journalist Heroes: Justine van der Leun

InterviewApril 29, 2020

“Any prison reporting that centers the voices of those inside is the result of someone having the courage to come forward in the face of losing what little they… More

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The PEN Pod: Incarceration Amid COVID-19 with Beth Shelburne

InterviewApril 14, 2020

“The bottom line is we have too many people in our jails and prisons for far too long, and that makes all of these other issues so much worse.” More

Reading for Justice: Confronting Mass Incarceration in the South, Birmingham, Alabama

Reading for Justice: Confronting Mass Incarceration in the South

Saturday, February 15, 2020 | 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
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Writing for Justice Fellowship 2018-2019

The Writing for Justice Fellowship commissions writers to create works of lasting merit that illuminate critical issues related to mass incarceration. More

Authoring Advocacy: Bearing Witness in an Era of Mass Incarceration

Friday, November 1, 2019 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Life and Death in a Carceral State

Tuesday, October 15, 2019 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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