The Administration promised free expression. The results were anything but more freedom.
With more than 22K instances since 2021, the bans have become normalized.
Thu. December 4 at The Strand Bookstore in NYC
The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers recognizes 12 emerging writers each year for their debut short story
Local censorship tactics are being adopted on the state and federal levels
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Kevin D. Sawyer was awarded Honorable Mention in Essay in the 2019 Prison Writing Contest.
“I grew up at perhaps the tail end of the “spare the rod, spoil the child” generation, so violence was normalized and mitigated with life lessons.”