The writing was outrageously good this year. Seems that the pandemic (or being on lockdown with kids) has loosened the creative screws. So many stories were surreal or just so powerfully real that the images and events made for excellent reading: This year we are awarding — Four Honorable Mentions (in no particular […]
[ Read More...]Pen Parentis Fellowship Contest 2018-2019 is now closed
April 17th has come and gone – we are thrilled by the numerous entries! (more than ever before!) Did you enter? Did you miss out this year? Don’t worry – the fellowship is annual. Listen to our current fellow, the amazing Megan Pillow Davis, who will tell you a little bit about why she entered […]
[ Read More...]Download a Fellowship Flyer!
Please help us spread the word about the Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents. Do you work in a coffee shop where there is a bulletin board? Maybe you are an alum of a writing program and they have a listserv? Or maybe you’ve just got a few friends who are terrific writers who […]
[ Read More...]On Family-Friendly Fundraisers
There is a special sort of anxiousness that accompanies adult events to which kids are welcome. First you go all-out making sure there is something for the kids to do (we invited the unparalleled Church Street School for Music and Art to do an all-ages bookmaking craft) then you have to make sure the adults […]
[ Read More...]Sarah Gerkensmeyer to John Jodzio, one Pen Parentis Fellow to another
Today is the day of the changeover – we give a $1000 check to a new Pen Parentis Fellow at the season opener for our Salons. Ten seasons – it’s astonishing. We are so thrilled and gratified at the wonderful response that we get from our audiences. Our 2013-2014 Writing Fellow is John Jodzio, who […]
[ Read More...]We interrupt this blog with an important Fellowship announcement!
I promised you Brooklyn’s Peter von Ziegesar, and you shall have him — next week. This week we are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2013-2014 Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents is JOHN JODZIO from Minneapolis, MN. His story grabs you right up front and never lets you go – it […]
[ Read More...]What AWP taught me
This is going to be an unusually personal post – I went to AWP (the massive, twelve-thousand writers in a single event space dance-with-your-editor party that the Association of Writers and Writing Professionals puts on annually in various cities). First let me say that it was….amazing. There were thirty panels for every time slot – […]
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