PEN World Voices Festival: Writing Truthfully for Kids About Today’s Issues
A summary of the panel “Writing Truthfully for Kids About Today’s Issues,” part of the 2023 PEN World Voices Festival.
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A Change in Plans
The cancellation of my travels to Portugal this year and what I’ll be doing instead.
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PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “It Can’t Happen Here”
A closing panel of the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival addresses the question: could (or has) an authoritarian regime come to power in the United States?
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PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “What Shall We Tell the Children?”
The contributors to an upcoming volume of poetry, essays, and art on resistance offer advice to parents on talking to children in challenging times.
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PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like”
A PEN World Voices panel on writing and democracy that highlighted the myth of meritocracy and the self-made man, and need for more inclusive media and stories.
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Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2023!
