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2008 News Archives

June

• This Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert - China and Turkey

• PEN USA Seeks New Interns for the Summer-Fall of 2008

• Feldman’s new book “No Time to Think”

• Apply Now for the 2009 Magic Carpet Ride Mentorship Program

• Last Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert - China

• Poole’s new book “The Galloping Ghost: Red Grange, an American Football Legend”

May

• 2008 Community Access Scholarship

• USC Annenberg launches M.A. degree program in Arts Journalism

April

• We Are Ready: Petition to the Chinese Government

• This Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert - Peru

March

• Last Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert!

• Last Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert - China

February

• This Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert-Turkey

• Call for Submissions to PEN International

• New Certificate in Publishing Arts Program at Antioch LA

• This Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert - China

January

• Last Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert - Afghanistan

• Call for Applications: Writer- or Storyteller-in-Residence (Canada)

• Antioch L.A Announces New Publishing Arts Program

• Past Action Alerts - 1/14/08 - China

• Oregon Literary Fellowships Announced

2007 News Archives

December

• Send a Letter to an Imprisoned Writer

• New Rudolfo Anaya Kid’s Book Chosen for Land of Enchantment Book Award

August

• Urgent Request for Action: Death Sentence Confirmed Against Iranian-Kurdish Journalist

• Last Week’s Freedom to Write Action Alert-China

June

• Previous Action Alerts - Russia

• Previous Action Alert - 6/21/07 - China

• Previous Action Alerts - 06/14/07 - China

• VIETNAM: Writer Nguyen Vu Binh released under amnesty following international pressure

• Previous Action Alerts 06/07/07 - Azerbaijan

May

• Previous Action Alert - 05/29/07 - IRAN

• Previous Action Alert - 05/24/07 - VIETNAM

April

• Previous Action Alert - 4/26/07 - ETHIOPIA - HONORARY MEMBERS RELEASED!

• Previous Action Alerts 04/19/07 - EGYPT

• Previous Action Alerts 04/11/07 - RUSSIA

• Feminaissance Colloquium on Women, Experimental Writing and Feminism

• “Big Sunday” Seeks Writers to Write Biographic Essays of Homeless Angelenos

• The Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors West Coast Unit Seeks Playwrights

March

• Previous Action Alerts 03/29/07 - TURKEY

• Previous Action Alerts 03/29/07 - ERITREA

• Previous Action Alerts 03/22/07 - CHINA

• Previous Action Alerts 03/15/07 - UZBEKISTAN

• Previous Action Alerts 03/08/07 - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

February

• Previous Action Alerts 02/22/07 - Uzbekistan

• Previous Action Alerts 02/15/07

• Previous Action Alerts 02/09/07 - Azerbaijan

• Previous Action Alerts 02/09/07 - Mexico

January

• Previous Action Alerts 01/31/07

• Idaho Prize for Poetry Accepting Submissions

• Previous Action Alerts - 1/22/07 - Azerbaijan

• PEN Mourns the death of Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink

2006 News Archives

December

• Previous Action Alerts 12/7/06

November

• Turkey: Article 301 called into question in Turkey

• HOLIDAY CARDS FOR IMPRISONED WRITERS

• Previous Action Alerts 11/2/06 - Uzbekistan

• Previous Action Alerts 11/2/06 - Algeria

• PEN in the Classroom Writer’s Application Now Available

October

• Previous Action Alerts 10/27/06

• Xochiquetzalli Award for Poetry Accepting Submissions

• Previous Action Alerts 10/19/06 - CHINA

• Previous Action Alerts 10/12/06 - VIETNAM

• Previous Action Alerts 10/12/06 - CHINA

• Turkey: Author Ipek Çalislar and Publisher Ragip Zarakolu “Insult” Trials Postponed

• MALDIVES: Writer and leading opposition politician Mohamed Nasheed freed from house arrest.

• Serious Concern for the safety of Salah Uddian Shoaib Choudhury

• PEN USA Mourns Anna Politkovskaya

• Previous Action Alerts 10/5/06 - Bangladesh

September

• PEN USA Congratulates Geo O’Connor

• Previous Action Alerts 09/28/06 - Niger

• ::TURKEY::  AUTHOR ELIF SHAFAK ACQUITTED

• International PEN to be Present in Istanbul for Elif Shafak Trial

• IRAN: Academic Ramin Jahanbegloo RELEASED

August

• Kevin O’Morrison Talks Censorship in World Literature Today

• Previous Action Alerts 08/25/06

• Honorary Members

• PEN USA Thanks UCLA Extension Writers Program

• David T.K. Wong Story Contest Discontinued

• Previous Action Alerts 08/03/06 - CHINA/TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION

• Previous Action Alerts: 08/03/06 - TURKEY

July

• Previous Action Alerts 07/27/06

• Mamadali Makmudov

• LAPL Seeks Cultural Programs Assistant

• Writers Come to West Hollywood for Toolbox Day

• Rachel Resnick Leads a Writing Retreat to France

• Previous Action Alerts 07/06/06

• PEN Congress Resolutions and Recommendations

June

• Previous Action Alerts 06/22/06

• Previous Action Alerts 06/16/06

• Previous Action Alerts 06/08/06

• Press Release: California Writers Exchange Contest

• PEN Serves Forbidden Fruit

May

• Previous Action Alerts 05/11/06

• Writer In Prison RELEASED!

• Previous Action Alerts 05/04/06

• World Press Freedom Day

April

• PRESS RELEASE: Announcing International Poetry Museum

• CSULB Announces New MFA Writing Program by PEN USA Members Brian Alan Lane and Diana Wagman

• Previous Action Alerts 04/27/06

• Previous Action Alerts 04/06/06

• Honorary Member Shoaib Choudhury Begins Sedition Trial May 23

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