PEN/Faulkner is excited to announce the winners and runners-up for this year's Youth Essay Contest! Writers were asked to submit personal essays on the theme of "Rise Up." Each of the winners and runners-up will receive a monetary prize, and the two winners will read...
One month ago, on Monday, October 7th, esteemed writers from all over the country came to D.C. to read at the PEN/Faulkner 25th Annual Gala—as well as to visit local schools to discuss their books. Among the writers was Roy Scranton, who visited McKinley Tech to talk...
It's all too easy to employ sports metaphors when speaking or writing about Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding. These things necessarily spring to mind after you've read a 500+ page campus novel that is, at heart, very much about the game of baseball. One could, for...
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Wench, visited my tenth grade classes as part of our third unit of the school year. The unit theme was love, and the essential question was: Does love free us or cage us? Throughout the unit, students discussed and wrote about this...
Novelist Marita Golden visited National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter School in southeast D.C. last week to discuss her novel, After, as well as her other work and her writing career. After follows Carson Blake, a veteran police officer from a troubled...
On Thursday, October 11th Lulu Delacre visited the Cardozo Senior High School teen parent book club to discuss Jay and Ben, as well as her bilingual book Arrorró, Mi Niño, a book of Latino lullabies and gentle games. She discussed her inspiration for writing Arrorró,...
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