The PEN America Emerging Voices Podcast was created to increase the reach of the fellowship and provide the tools necessary to launch a professional writing career to writers in need beyond the five fellows awarded each year. Hosted by Fellowship Manager Amanda Fletcher, the podcast will feature fellows, mentors, master class instructors, Author Evening hosts, and more, all talking craft tips, writing advice, agents, query letters, carne asada, trauma, transcendence, and the importance of literary community.nnWriters. Readers. Talkers. See how they’re just like you.
2018 Emerging Voices Fellow Jubi Arriola-Headley talks about the lack of equity in creative writing, the importance of essential truth over fact, and ...
Pulled from the vault for your listening enjoyment, it is the 2017 Emerging Voices Final Reading, live from the Skirball Cultural Center. The 2017 Fel...
1999 Emerging Voices Fellow Dr. Stephanie Han talks to us about polyculturalism, protests, and the pandemic; our increased ability to conceptualize a ...
Normally, this is the time for the EV Spring Reading. Friends, loved ones, and the local literary community all gather to meet the fellows and to hear...
1999 Emerging Voices Fellow Shonda Buchanan talks about nurturing communities that reach beyond the page, writing your life into existence, and the im...
In celebration of the launch of her memoir–HOME IS A STRANGER–in the middle of a pandemic, 2009 EV Parnaz Foroutan talks about shaking the self in tim...
2003 Emerging Voices Fellow, poet, teacher, and community activist Rocío Carlos teaches us how to make a zine, and talks about taking attendance, gett...
The 2019 Emerging Voices Fellows meet for a last meal and talk to Fellowship Manager Amanda Fletcher about their experiences in EV, commenting on the ...
As part of Rare Bird Books, Julia Callahan has co-hosted a small press Author Evening with Chris Heiser from Unnamed Press for years. Now, from the fl...
2014 EV Fellow and Casting Director for the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. Victor Vazquez discusses diversity, talks about taking the mic, our respons...