The Pen Parentis Literary Salon
Your Local Literary Salon.
The Pen Parentis Literary Salon brings an exciting new literary venue to the very heart of the Financial District! All are invited to this intimate event held the second Tuesday of each month. Join us for a drink and a story in the extraordinarily warm and elegant Libertine Library at Gild Hall.
In association with The South Street Seaport, Pen Parentis is proud to present two notable authors reading from their work each month—the two hour event concludes with an intimate Q&A and signings at the authors’ discretion. Full bar service is available.
When & Where to be
- Next event: Thursday, September 14, 2010
STARTS THE NEW SEASON! - Ongoing readings monthly, every second Tuesday
- 6:30pm-8:30pm TIME CHANGE
- At the gorgeous Libertine Library at Gild Hall
- Located inside the stunning new Gild Hall Hotel at 15 Gold Street, NYC (click to see map)
- FREE admission!
- Ten minute walk from everywhere in the Financial District
- 2/3/4/5/J/M/Z at Fulton, A/C at Broadway/Nassau, E or PATH at WTC
Who is reading this month?
The final Pen Parentis Literary Salon of the 2009-2010 season took place on May 13, 2010 with nonfiction night. Though the lit-salons take a summer break, mark your calendars now: the new Pen Parentis Fellowship for New Authors had nearly a hundred applicants fro m as far away as Paris and Hawaii, all eager to be publicly introduced at the first Pen Parentis Literary Salon of the 2010-2011 season on Tuesday September 14th, where the new Fellow will share the stage with notable authors Jennifer Epstein and Darin Strauss. All are welcome to these free events.
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Pen Parentis is a new, New York-based organization that provides resources to authors who are parents. The organization’s goals include a writing contest for new parents, grants for child-care, and ultimately, a writing center that partners with groups that provide drop-off children’s programming.
For more about Pen Parentis, visit the Pen Parentis website.
Please donate to keep the Pen Parentis Literary Salon alive. This one-of-a-kind reading series is run primarily on donations from readers like you. No amount is too large or too small. One click (and a valid credit card) is all it takes.
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Click penparentis@gmail.com to send a message to the organizers or contact the Pen Parentis executive director M. M. De Voe (212-501-2031) for more information.
The Pen Parentis Literary Salon is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
This event was also funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from The New York State Council of the Arts, a state agency.