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Gay, Wang, Ehrenreich, Hartman Win at 2021 PEN Lit Awards By Calvin Reid | Apr 08, 2021 The PEN Literary Awards, presented this year in a virtual ceremony, awarded poet Ross Gay the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Be Holding: A Poem (University of Pittsburgh), a book-length lyrical tribute to the great basketball player Julius Erving and much more. Michael X. Wang’s Further News of Defeat: Stories won the $25,000 PEN/Bingham Short Story Prize, and Barbara Ehrenreich won the $15,000 PEN/Essay Award for her career-spanning collection In addition, Saidiya Hartma...

Winners of the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Announced This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. The winners of the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards were announced in their first-ever online ceremony since the Awards began 57 years ago. It was hosted by Kara Young and featured many guest appearances, including Whoopi Goldberg and Viola Davis. In total, $380,000 in prizes were awarded to a diverse range of writers, translators, poets, editors, journalists, and others. Although they were not able to host the usual festivities, the ...

Content Notice: Graphic description of acts of Gender-Based Violence “You want to understand how power works in any society, watch who is carrying the shame and who is doing the shaming.” — Shailja Patel Growing up, I was taught all kinds of myths about Black women. I was taught, on the playground, in Disney films and from the Generations soapie that women are delicate things, that women are unambitious and are happiest waiting for men. That Black women who worked were lesser women who could not attract a man. I was taught that women were bad, that Eve created sin, that when women mens...

Kneo Mokgopa - Manager: Communications & Advocacy News Content notice: Graphic description of acts of gender-based violence “You want to understand how power works in any society, watch who is carrying the shame and who is doing the shaming.”  Shailja Patel Growing up, I was taught all kinds of myths about Black women. I was taught, on the playground, in Disney films and from the Generations soapie that women are delicate things, that women are unambitious and are happiest waiting for men. That Black women who worked were lesser women who could not attract a man. I was taught that women...

Elvira Dyangani Ose is director of The Showroom in London © Maureen M. Evans The new gallery platform South South, dedicated to art from the Global South, launches today with the live selling event South South Veza that will bring over 50 galleries from five continents together using auction technology and an online viewing room. Accompanying the event will be a series of talks and think tanks, including Institutional Hybridity, led by the curator and director of The Showroom in London, Elvira Dyangani Ose, which will examine how cultural institutions can approach quest...