August 2011

Announcing the 2011 Literary Awards Festival Winners

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2011 LITERARY AWARD WINNERS
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PEN Center USA presents the 2011 Award Winners for Fiction, Poetry, Journalism and more...
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PEN Center USA is proud to announce

THE 2011 LITERARY AWARD WINNERS


 

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The Truth About Writing by Mehnaz Turner

Posted: August 31st, 2011 by PEN Center USA Comments: 0

Participating in the Mark Program has encouraged me to think more deeply about my writing habits and goals. What makes the writing life worthwhile for me? Why did I choose it and what keeps me choosing it? These are a few questions that I’ve been pondering lately.
Here are some answers that come to mind (in no particular order):
 
1) I’m a stationary junkie. I love notebooks, pens, and the smell of ink. I need an excuse to be wedded to these materials routinely.

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2011 Literary Awards: Finalists and Judges

Finalists

Fiction
Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman (Graywolf)
The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Pantheon Books)

Poetry
100 Notes on Violence by Julie Carr (Ahsahta Press)
Shoulder Season by Ange Mlinko (Coffee House Press)
Pleasure by Brian Teare (Ahsahta Press)

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2011 Ticketing Purchase: SUCCESS

You have successfully completed your Lit Fest order. Thank you for supporting PEN Center USA! We are looking forward to seeing you on November 8, 2011 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

PLEASE NOTE: There is no physical ticket for the Annual Literary Awards. You will be checked in upon arrival.

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Help Us Win the GOOD L.A. Fund! VOTE for SUMMERS OFF: An Art Festival for LAUSD Employees

HELP US WIN $2,500 TOWARD A NEW PROJECT:

GOOD and EPIP L.A. want to celebrate the awesome efforts that are moving Los Angeles forward. They created a prize for a project that is good for the city of Los Angeles and needs funding.

Weekend Literary Roundup

Posted: August 28th, 2011 by PEN Center USA Comments: 0

The Bell Jar at 40 by Emily Gould (Poetry Foundation)

Scholarmatch.org - A new 826National Project

What Killed American Lit  (Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2011)

Martin Amis on poet Philip Larkin (Financial Times, August 19, 2011)

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Poem of the Week: "All Her Life" by Raymond Carver

Posted: August 26th, 2011 by PEN Center USA Comments: 0

 

 All Her Life

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Up the Ante Wednesday: Apply to the VCCA

Posted: August 24th, 2011 by PEN Center USA Comments: 0

The Virgina Center for the Creative Arts opened in 1971 and is "the only artist community in the nation directly associated with an institution of higher learnning." Located on the campus of Sweet Briar College and nestled in the Blue Ridge farmland, VCCA gives its Fellows access to the College's many facilities and services, including libraries, computer labs, and walking trails.

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