Our programs are still very active! We will be running salons again as soon as it is feasible. We will NOT be shaking hands or throwing our arms around you or anything of the sort. We will take measures to help keep you all safe & healthy (as well as ourselves and our featured authors!) […]
[ Read More...]Looking for our Salons?
We have a new location! See you at the Killarney Rose in the upstairs Hideout! Secret entrance on 80 Beaver Street, second floor (door to your left at the top of the stairs) Join us for our first salon of 2019 the Tenth Anniversary Winter Poetry Salon on Tuesday January 8th at 7pm
[ Read More...]Is this you?
Does writing make you happy? Do you wish that people could understand that? Our community does. We welcome writers of all levels who want to find balance between their writing career and their growing family. Check out our MEMBERSHIP. Attend our Meetups (currently Friday mornings 10am-11am, with optional hour of writing time after, but we […]
[ Read More...]SUMMER ACTIVITIES AT PEN PARENTIS
Summer has arrived, and as always we take a break from hosting our monthly Salons to write, to explore new activities, to plan our Fall Fundraiser, and to judge the Pen Parentis Fellowship entries (announced early August). This year, we are also taking our Salons on the ROAD. Our first-ever out-of-town Pen Parentis Literary Salon […]
[ Read More...]Welcome Brian Gresko!
We are delighted to welcome a new curator to the Pen Parentis Literary Salons! Brian Gresko is the editor of the anthology When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers on Fatherhood, forthcoming from Berkley Books/Penguin on Father’s Day, 2014. He has contributed to The Huffington Post, and written about books and culture for […]
[ 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...]The post-hurricane blog
Remember that old thing you learned in English class about the “types of literary conflict” where one was Man vs. Nature? Yeah. We’re losing that one. I suppose you’ve heard by now that the November 13th Pen Parentis Literary Salon was canceled. Our lovely host, the Andaz Wall Street, is not yet open for business […]
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