Calendar of Events

NOV
6

Check This Out podcast episode

Host Rachel Barenbaum interviews Katie Yee, author of Maggie: Or, A Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar and Vanessa Lillie, author of The Bone Thief.

 

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NOV
13

Check This Out podcast episode

Host Rachel Barenbaum interviews Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of The White Hot.

 

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NOV
19

Founding Friends

Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez discusses her recent novel Happy Land.

 

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NOV
20

Check This Out podcast episode

Host Rachel Barenbaum interviews Callie Hart, author of Brimstone.

 

Headshot of Lauren Francis-Sharma, a smiling Black woman wearing glasses, a patterned scarf, and a white top

NOV
27

Check This Out podcast episode

Host Rachel Barenbaum interviews Eliana Ramage, author of To the Moon and Back.

 

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DEC
5

PEN/Malamud Award Celebration

Join us to honor PEN/Malamud Award winner David Means at American University.

 

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DEC
6

Check This Out podcast episode

Host Rachel Barenbaum interviews Janet Rich Edwards, author of Canticle.

 

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DEC
11

Writerly Happy Hour

Mix and mingle at Sonny’s Pizza with our friends from The Inner Loop, DC Writers Room, and The Writer’s Center.

 

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DEC
13

Check This Out podcast episode

Host Rachel Barenbaum interviews Gwydion Suilebhan, Executive Director of PEN/Faulkner, and Deesha Philyaw, 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award judge.

 

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