PEN USA Member Signings at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Honorary Member Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
This Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert- China
Previous Freedom to Write Action Alert - Iran
Previous Action Alert - June 16, 2009 - Mexico
MEXICO: Journalist killed on World Press Freedom Day
The 2009 EV Reading - MAY 10, 2009
Previous Freedom To Write Action Alert - CHINA
MEXICO: Journalist and family threatened; fears for safety
CHINA/TIBET: Internet writer detained without charges
2009 Emerging Voices Welcome Reception Photos
2009 Emerging Voices Welcome Reception Photos
UPDATE THAILAND: Writer received Royal pardon
CHINA: Uighur Historian Released From Prison
NEWS ITEM: “In rural Newman, profanity gets “Bless Me, Ultima” banned”
UPDATE THAILAND RAN: Harry Nicolaides seeks Royal pardon
Previous Freedom To Write Action Alert - THAILAND
UPDATE VENEZUELA: Editor and columnist shot dead
UPDATE SAUDI ARABIA: Reformist academic and writer Professor Matrook Al-Faleh released.
UPDATE MYANMAR: Former journalist and political leader released
Previous Freedom To Write Action Alert - CHINA
PEN USA ANNOUNCES 2008 LITERARY AWARD WINNERS
Wordsmith Creative Writing Workshop- facilitated by Lisa Marguerite Mora
UPDATE IRAN: Journalist released from prison
UPDATE SUDAN: Darfuri journalist released, now in USA
Of Interest: International PEN WiPC Americas Free Expression Network (AmFEN)
Frankfurt Book Fair: Orhan Pamuk Denounces Turkish Oppression
UPDATE CHINA: Hu Jia awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Expression
Brava! for Women in the Arts presents… a free workshop with Josefina Lopez
World Festival Of Sacred Music
UPDATE MYANMAR: Journalist Win Tin Released
UPDATE CHINA: 42 Writers and Journalists Remain In Prison
UCLA Extension Artsday LA 2009
UPDATE CHINA: Dissident writer Hu Shigen released
UPDATE RUSSIA: Editor Nikolai Andrushchenko Freed On Bail
Previous Week’s Freedom To Write Action Alert: Uzbekistan
WordTheatre
China Focus Action Update
VIETNAM: Bui Kim Thanh Released
SYRIA: Writer and Academic Aref Dalila Released
Gore vidal reads Walt Whitman
Brooke Adams reads from “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Tony Shalhoub reads from “Always Running: La Vida Loca”
Dana Delany reads from “A Wrinkle in Time”
Teri Garr reads “The Pirate”
Teri Garr reads “Clarence”
Teri Garr reads “Ladies First”
Teri Garr reads “They’ve Put a Brassiere On a Camel”
Teri Garr reads “Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony”
Teri Garr reads “Rockabye”
Christopher Rice reads from “Blind Fall”
Denise Hamilton reads from “The Last Embrace”
John Lescroart reads from “Betrayal”
John Lesrcoart reads from “Guilt”
Imani Tolliver- Voices from Leimert Park
Lynn Thompson- Voices from Leimert Park
Sequoia Oliver Mercier- Voices from Leimert Park
Last Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert - Mexico - CORRECTED ADDRESS!!
V. Kali Nurigan- Voices from Leimert Park
Kim Benjamin-Voices from Leimert Park
Jason Luckett-Voices from Leimert Park
Romus Simpson- Voices from Leimert Park
Beverly Magid Reading
Activist Writing
Reading and Workshop with Rachel Kann
Workshop at The World Stage
Last Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert - China and Turkey
Poetry at the Amsterdam Cafe
Feldman’s new book “No Time to Think”
Annual Festivals in Japan Lecture
Wordsmith Creative Writing Workshop
15th Annual Publication Party Hosted by the UCLA Extension Writers’s Program
Howard Hughes: The Man and His Legacy
Last Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert - China
An Evening of Discussion on Queer Literature Today
The 2008 Author Fair at the El Segundo Public Library
Reading of Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Southern California Literature
19th Annual Publishing University in L.A.
Poetry Reading in Honor of Raymond Carver
Prime Numbers
Un-Cabaret
An Evening with Helene Cardona at Brown University
Book Fair Readings at the Church in Ocean Park
PEN Salon #4: A Conversation with Allison Burnett: Writing Across Genres
USC Annenberg launches M.A. degree program in Arts Journalism
Poetry Reading with Claudia Rankine and Chris Albani
The First Ever Reading from the 6th Edition of Corpus (with APLA and MAKE ART/STOP AIDS)
Reading by Calvin Trillin
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: April 26 & 27
We Are Ready: Petition to the Chinese Government
Sharon Sharth’s award-winning play, WAITING FOR GRACE
CD Release Party for Sound Poems, the New CD by The Word-Music
Diane Lefer Reads Fiction at Benefit for 20th Anniversary of Santa Monica Review
Sharon Rosen reads from “Seder Stories: Passover Thoughts on Food, Family and Freedom”
“(before) The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam” by Scott McMorrow (New York, NY)
Poetry at the Ruskin: Meredith Hall and Doug Van Gundy
Wordsmith Creative Writing Workshop
Previous Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert - Peru