During the 2023-2024 school year, 36% of all banned titles featured characters or people of color and a quarter (25%) included LGBTQ+ people or characters.
This week-long intensive provides an in-person workshop for early-career writers from communities underrepresented in the publishing world.
Learn how the creation and display of art is entwined with the U.S.’s most fraught cultural and political debates.
The next four years could reshape the United States for decades to come. Join us in fighting every day to protect the freedom to write and the freedom to read.
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2011 Roger Angell
2012 Dan Jenkins
2013 Frank Deford
2014 Dave Anderson
2015 Bob Ryan
2016 John Schulian
2017 William Nack