Month: June 2017

The PEN Center USA Emerging Voices 2017 Final Reading at the Skirball Cultural Center Featuring Soleil David, Peter H.Z. Hsu, Kirin Khan, Chinyere Nwodim, and Jessica Shoemaker Enjoy poetry and fiction read by this year’s PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellows, with personal introductions by their mentors Jade Chang, Amelia Gray, Ashaki M. Jackson, Dana… Continue reading The Emerging Voices 2017 Final Reading at Skirball

I’ll be reading my short story “Asleep For Days” as part of Lily Anne Harrison’s The Blue Hour reading series. I’ll be joined on stage with several talented young writers, including my friends Barton Aikman and Matt Buga. Come see us!  

If you missed Pete’s panel/talk at Skylight last week, his essay is up at the PEN Center USA website. And then a writer goes to a special event like, for example, the PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship Meet and Greet at Skylight Books. You go and stand outside, looking in through the front doors. You… Continue reading “A Writer”: A PEN USA Outreach Essay

Emerging Voices Fellowship MEET & GREET Are you interested in applying!? Join Emerging Voices Fellows, alumni, and mentors in conversation for the 2018 application cycle. PEN Center USA presents summer cocktails, short readings, a fellowship overview and audience Q&A. Meet and Greet Los Angeles Saturday, June 17 5-7PM Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont Ave Los… Continue reading EV Meet & Greet: June 17th, Los Angeles