For authors still wondering if your voices matter, $75,000 will now be donated to the The PCRF (Palestine Children's Relief Fund) because of the dogged work of Writers Against the War on Gaza and the moral courage of dozens of writers of conscience who spoke out in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

We won.

BREAKING: The 2024 PEN America Literary Awards ceremony has been canceled. Two juried prizes will still be conferred, and the $75,000 purse accompanying the PEN/Stein Book Award will be donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. buff.ly/44hKTrt

This. When we're all dead people are gonna be reading monsteryoun 윤영나 to find out what we did, & what vexed us. poets.org/poem/four-free… Academy of American Poets

Then—as if someone had switched on a black light in the sky—

the traceries of dread just visible all around her, the curving
       trajectories of each possible disaster

once seen, now indelible

––Monica Youn
monsteryoun 윤영나
#PoemADay

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I really resent the suggestion that authors who have withdrawn from PEN America events are choosing to ‘silence ourselves’. Also the insinuation that we’re intimidating other writers lithub.com/pen-president-…

REVISED YET AGAIN: Poets in the NYC/NJ area looking for something to do on Monday and/or Tuesday afternoon between the hours of 1:30 and 4:30 pm. I must know you and your work. Money involved. Poems involved. Must like pizza.

I’ve withdrawn my book from consideration for the PEN/Voelcker, in solidarity w/ the people of Gaza & all who oppose the genocidal tactics being used against them. The slowness of PEN America leadership to do so has sadly compromised the integrity of the awards & organization.

In addition to withdrawing from the PEN awards, a group of translators is also fundraising for Nadine Murtaja, a 21-year old poet in Gaza. They’ve raised roughly 10k in a week. gofundme.com/f/mrv2dj-compl…

‼️ BREAKING: 29 authors have withdrawn from PEN America’s literary prizes in solidarity with a free Palestine and in a historic protest of @PENAmerica leadership. Nine of 10 nominees for the $75K Jean Stein Book Award have withdrawn.

‼️ PRESS RELEASE: docs.google.com/document/d/15Y…

As of this morning 29 writers & translators nominated for PEN Awards have withdrawn - including 9 of 10 fellow Jein/Stein nominees, who asked to no longer be considered for PEN’s most lucrative prize. We sent a letter to leadership today explaining why:
lithub.com/the-pen-awards…

With Robin Myers Kira Josefsson and other translators on the longlist for the PEN Awards, I am raising money for a writer in Gaza, Nadine Murtaja, who is trying to get out. Murtaja's fundraiser is at $18,595! Can we get her to $20,000 today? 🦋
gofundme.com/f/mrv2dj-compl…

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In solidarity with PEN America United & Writers Against the War on Gaza I've decided to withdraw my book from consideration for the PEN America Jean Stein Award and Voelcker Award. Thank you to the independent judges of both prizes for the recognition and all their hard work.

deep respect to the past BTC guests who withdrew from PEN America award consideration or its World Voices Festival. A desire for solidarity across difference, for what Christina Sharpe calls 'distributive risk,' is alive in all 4 of their books & in these acts—
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Rally with PEN America United for a fair contract now!!

This Wednesday, April 17th at 12 pm - wear red and join us outside the PEN America Head Quarters at 588 Broadway New York, NY 10012 !!!

Share widely!! We'll see you there!!!

Despite my deep gratitude to the judges who believed in my book, BIANCA, I have withdrawn from consideration for the 2024 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. I made this choice in keeping with the boycott sustained against @penamerica, and in solidarity with Palestine. 🧵

Last Tuesday I found out that my book Dyscalculia was longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein award. I decided to decline this recognition and asked to be removed from the longlist in solidarity with the ongoing protest of PEN's continued normalization and denial of genocide.