The Pen Parentis After Work Reading Series

Tuesday, May 12th marked the final Pen Parentis event of the Winter season. Pen Parentis will take a break for Summer, but we will see you again for an exciting Fall season starting in September. Watch this space for updates!

The Pen Parentis After Work Reading Series 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 Upstairs Library Lounge at The Libertine.

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: Tuesday, September 8, 2009
• Ongoing readings monthly, every second Tuesday
• 6pm-8pm
• At the gorgeous upstairs library at The Libertine
• Located inside the stunning new Gildhall Hotel at 15 Gold Street, NYC (click to see map)

• 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 Pen Parentis After Work Reading series will be off in the summer months, but we hope to see you back starting September 8th, 2009:

• September 8, 2009:
  Colson Whitehead, McArthur Fellow and author of five extraordinary novels including the well-received Sag Harbor.
  Deborah Copaken Kogen, author of Shutterbabe, the bestselling memoir of her years as a war photographer

• October 13, 2009:
  Sarah Langan, winner of several Bram Stoker awards, author the acclaimed library horror novels The Keeper, The Missing, and Audrey's Door
  Film director JT Petty, best known for The Burrowers, also a sought-after screenwriter and the author of several acclaimed children’s books.

• November 10, 2009:
  Musician-novelist Stewart Lewis, author of Rockstarlet and Relative Stranger: A Novel
  Joanna Smith Rakoff , author of  A Fortunate Age: A Novel

• December 8, 2009:
  Darcey Steinke, author of four literary novels, two of which were New Your Times Notable Books of the Year
  Sam Apple, award winning nonfiction author of Schlepping Through the Alps and American Parent

Find more information below on how to donate and to sign up for our mailing list.

see past and upcoming readers (click)

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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 After Work Reading Series alive. This one-of-a-kind reading series is run exclusively 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.

Use this link! Your donations help keep this Reading Series going strong.

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.

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The Pen Parentis after work reading series 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.