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Algonquin West Hollywood Literary Award Soiree

On Saturday, October 3rd, at 7 pm, the Algonquin West Hollywood Literary Award Soiree will be held at the Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90069. This event will honor the literary achievements of PEN member Aimee Liu and is a benefit for our PEN in the Classroom Program.

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Since 1995, PEN in the Classroom (PITC) has helped thousands of Southern California high school students discover the power of their unique voices by sending professional writers into their classrooms for creative writing residencies. As teacher, poet and PEN member Jamie O’Halloran wrote, “PEN brought a very welcome change of pace that allowed these gifted and ambitious students to use the right side of their brains. The poetic freedom to write gave more than one of these future engineers, attorneys, or surgeons the confidence to say ‘I am a writer!’“