In The Good Books, over 50 writers-including Yiyun Li, Anne Fadiman, Karen Russell, Gary Shteyngart, David Shields, and many more-choose the works in translation they'd bring to a great global book swap. Also featured: talks and conversation by Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, and other participants in the 1986 PEN Congress. Plus fiction, poetry, essays, and comics from around the world.
The Sentences That Create Us draws from the unique insights of over fifty justice-involved contributors and their allies to offer inspiration and resources for creating a literary life in prison. Centering in the philosophy that writers in prison can be as vibrant and capable as writers on the outside, and have much to offer readers everywhere, The Sentences That Create Us aims to propel writers in prison to launch their work into the world beyond the walls, while also embracing and supporting the creative community within the walls. The Sentences That Create Us is a comprehensive resource writers can grow with, beginning with the foundations of creative writing. A roster of impressive contributors including Reginald Dwayne Betts (Felon: Poems), Mitchell S. Jackson (Survival Math), Wilbert Rideau (In the Place of Justice) and Piper Kerman (Orange is the New Black), among many others, address working within and around the severe institutional, emotional, psychological and physical limitations of writing prison through compelling first-person narratives. The book’s authors offer pragmatic advice on editing techniques, pathways to publication, writing routines, launching incarcerated-run prison publications and writing groups, lesson plans from prison educators and next-step resources. Threaded throughout the book is the running theme of addressing lived trauma in writing, and writing’s capacity to support an authentic healing journey centered in accountability and restoration. While written towards people in the justice system, this book can serve anyone seeking hard won lessons and inspiration for their own creative—and human—journey.
PEN Voices celebrates the work done at PEN American Center in the past year, promoting literature and defending freedom of expression nationally and internationally. With events from the World Voices Festival, selections from Literary Award winners, previews from PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant recipients, work from the Prison Writing Program, and adapted favorites from PEN.org, this issue brings together fiction, essay, poetry, art, and conversation from all parts of the PEN world. Featuring work from Earl Lovelace, Jamaica Kincaid, Andre Aciman, Gina Apostol, Sherman Alexie, Eileen Myles, Sergio De La Pava, Orhan Pamuk, Simon Critchley, Liu Xia, and many more. PEN American Center is one of 141 centers of International PEN, the world's oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. International PEN was founded in 1921. PEN American Center, founded a year later, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship.
For over three decades, every year hundreds of imprisoned writers from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works to PEN America's Prison Writing Awards, one of the few outlets of free expression for the country's incarcerated population. For the first time in this history, the 2018 Prison Writing Awards Anthology brings the winning works together in a beautiful print collection to share with the world.
The Sentences That Create Us provides a roadmap for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars--and through walls--drawing on the unique insights of over 50 justice-involved contributors and their allies to offer advice, inspiration and resources.
Consequnces of Oppression: Hell on Earth is an uncut, undiluted and unapologetic look at the plight of Black America. The gloves have come off and Pen Black is our modern day crusader. Consequences of Oppression is raw, it's real and it's a needed wake up call to an endangered race. In this book he attacks the problems created, sustained and furthered by the system in place, a present oppressor and even Blacks themselves. After Pen Black forcefully removes the veil from your eyes, he lovingly replaces it with a wide-eyed view and some necessary solutions. With controversial chapters like'Why They Want a White Girl' and 'Who's a Dog?' this is a book that shouldn't be ignored.
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