PEN America Emerging Voices Podcast
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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.

Jubi Arriola-Headley

2018 Emerging Voices Fellow Jubi Arriola-Headley talks about the lack of equity in creative writing, the importance of essential truth over fact, and ...
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Stephanie Han

1999 Emerging Voices Fellow Dr. Stephanie Han talks to us about polyculturalism, protests, and the pandemic; our increased ability to conceptualize a ...
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Shonda Buchanan

1999 Emerging Voices Fellow Shonda Buchanan talks about nurturing communities that reach beyond the page, writing your life into existence, and the im...
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Parnaz Foroutan

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...
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Rocío Carlos

2003 Emerging Voices Fellow, poet, teacher, and community activist Rocío Carlos teaches us how to make a zine, and talks about taking attendance, gett...
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The 2019 EVs

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 ...
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Julia Callahan

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...
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Victor Vazquez

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...
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