In our latest PEN Ten, @MalcolmTariq talks with author Lyle C. May about his new book Witness: An Insider’s Narrative of the Carceral State (@haymarketbooks, 2024), a personal and journalistic account of what’s lesser known about capital punishment.
https://t.co/qR2YHgMSkH
In a new PEN Ten interview, @malcolmtariq talks to author Matthew Mendoza about his short story, Hinges & Runners, which earned an Honorable Mention in Fiction in the most recent PEN Prison Writing Awards.
Read more: https://t.co/4UnNCYQi48
We needed this today! Malcolm Tariq (@MalcolmTariq) offers advice for those moments you’re not writing. Find exclusive craft essays like this one in our upcoming Writer’s Regimen ‘24.
https://t.co/MOm9uBrVja
“Delving into literature is neither escape, nor a surefire route to comfort. It has been a constant, sometimes violent, always provocative engagement with the contemporary world, the issues of the society we live in.” — Tony Morrison, “Grendel and His Mother, 2002.
Really looking forward to sharing the cover of my second poetry collection A MAP OF MY WANT from @haymarketbooks with you all soon!
Coming July 9, 2024!
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There is a virtual option!! See us TOMORROW.
Looking forward to turning on my actor mode a little. Hehe Get into @MimiTempestt and THE DELICACY OF EMBRACING SPIRALS!
NEXT SATURDAY: @MimiTempestt will read & be in conversation w/ @kycarrerolopez, @jasonbcrawford, Omotara James, @ireidjasmine, @dolphinneptune and @MalcolmTariq at Brooklyn Art Haus to celebrate the release of THE DELICACY OF EMBRACING SPIRALS.
Details: https://t.co/VvYjC1A5Qu
We've been really quiet "on here" bc its seems like this platform's days are numbered but we really miss y'all and just wanted to pipe back up to share this interview we did with @MalcolmTariq earlier this fall. Thank you @PENamerica for sharing and boosting our work.
Join us for Break Out, the annual launch for the #PENPrisonWritingAwards anthology!
Stay tuned to learn which special guests will join us in reading work created behind the walls.
7pm Wednesday Dec 6 at @BRICbrooklyn.
RSVP here: https://t.co/nG79GzvK3N.
In a new #PENTen interview, Elisabeth Houston, author of Standard American English, out now from @LitmusPress, talks to PEN America's @MalcolmTariq about her experience developing the same character over multiple mediums.
Read the full interview at: https://t.co/U2UnPjL6ve
I think we have a cover for @arealtravistea's story collection, UNTENABLE MYSTIC CHARM! I can't wait to show it to you and open up pre-orders for this incredible chapbook. Soon, I promise. 🖤��
An absolutely lovely conversation with @africanaatbrown artist-scholar Lisa Biggs (@LBiggie16) about her book on Black women's healing in performance-based theater programs!
The latest #WorksOfJustice is here!
For the podcast, @MalcolmTariq speaks w/@LBiggie16 on “The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, & the Art of Transformation," an ethnographic study of how performance helps Black woman process their past & prison. https://t.co/uZPNCrlW6U
Any magazine, lit journals, etc. that have demonstrated experience accepting work by incarcerated writers? @PENamerica's #WorksOfJustice podcast may want to interview you.
The Bell Chevigny Award, named in honor of a founding member of the Prison and Justice Writing Program, honors an outstanding voice in women’s nonfiction for the #PENPrisonWritingAwards. The inaugural winner is Catherine LaFleur for “Denouement.”
PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program congratulates the 33 winners of the 2023 #PENPrisonWritingAwards! An anthology featuring awarded works is available for preorder. Read the complete list here: https://t.co/Gl284KBWwr.
I love love love this book, which @jbakernyc delivers with so much care. Podcast dropping in a few days. Signup with the link below to get our interview and other literary content from @PENamerica's Prison and Justice Writing Program.
Congrats to @jbakernyc on the publication of her YA novel "Forgive Me Not"—out today from @PenguinTeen! Jennifer will be featured on a new episode of our #WorksOfJustice podcast, premiering later this week.
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