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Longlists announced: December 5-9, 2016 Shortlists announced: January 18, 2017 Winners announced: February 22, 2017 2017 PEN America Literary Awards…
Ha Jin was born in China in 1956. He has published two collections of poetry, Between Silences and Facing…
Like language, food is essential and theoretically accessible to almost anyone. The real question is which culinary voices are permitted,…
Amrit Singh, Matthew Alexander, and Susanna Moore, author and recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award, read excerpts from the Combatant Status…
Hannah Tinti is the author of the best-selling novel The Good Thief, which won The Center for Fiction’s first novel…
Mitchell S. Jackson’s debut novel, The Residue Years, received wide critical acclaim and won a Whiting Award and The Ernest J.…
Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short story writer, editor and essayist. Her first book of fiction, Use Me (2000)…
Elissa Schappell is the author of two books of fiction: Use Me, runner up for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and Blueprints…
Lydia Davis is the author of several story collections, including Collected Stories, and one novel. Her story collection Break It Down…
