Night Sessions: A Virtual Writing Cafe. What: A pandemic-born, Zoom-y, three-hour chunk of quiet nighttime writing alongside your fellow authors. Sunday through Thursday nights. Why: You like the nightlife, baby. We know. But it’s the pandemic. And you’re a parent. So get cranking on your novel/essay/memoir or whatever writing you want to get […]
[ Read More...]The Meaning of Fellowship
Please enjoy this beautiful open letter from 2019-2020’s Fellow Anjali Vaidya, to 2021’s Fellowship winners. (We awarded two Juror’s Prizes because it was extraordinary to us that any writer was able to create anything new in March-April of this year of pandemic parenting and political and racial turmoil) October 22, 2020San Diego, CA Dear Dawn, […]
[ Read More...]Choose your meetup!
Our weekly Writer-Parent Accountability Meetups are now entirely virtual! Choose the weekly time that works best for you and contact us to ask for the proper Zoom link. All participants MUST be writers who are parents (of any age kid) and all participants must commit to a writing project (beginning stages is fine, any genre […]
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Announcing the Salons Lineup for 2020-2021
TO RSVP TO ANY OF OUR SALONS, please visit the page “who’s reading next” on the Literary Salons tab of this website. Or just click here. For 2020-2021 our salons will be online. We would LOVE it if you checked it out! You don’t have to be a writer or a parent to love […]
[ Read More...]Fellowship Winners List 2020-2021
Pen Parentis is delighted to announce the winners of our Tenth Anniversary Writing Fellowship for New Parents. First let us congratulate every single writer who managed to complete a sentence and crown all of you that not only finished new work but sent it in to our competition on this, the tenth anniversary year of […]
[ Read More...]Visit our New Bookshop!
We are thrilled to partner with Bookshop.org in their attempt to help indie bookstores. Please shop our incredible store USING THIS LINK. Some things that will happen if you buy a book: you will support us (we get a percentage) you will be supporting an indie bookstore that is LOCAL to YOUR area (all book […]
[ Read More...]Conquer distance learning and get back to work
Being held captive at home with kids 24/7 is no joke when you are also trying to finish a creative writing project. We have many ways to help out–our accountability meetups seem to work for most people (just having a supportive community to talk through your specific situation is a huge step in the right […]
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