Exhaustive reporting by Tamar Sarai for Prism on the various ways PEN America is failing the incarcerated writers it claims to support. Most of the prize winners that Natalye contacted still have not been paid.

prismreports.org/2024/05/01/pen…

Two weeks ago, Prism published an op-ed Alex Tretbar and I collaborated on. As a follow up, Tamar Sarai did some outstanding reporting on the topic, looking into how incarcerated writers working with PEN are impacted. Read more ⬇️

Thanks to Prairie Home Magazine for publishing this poem about Maryland. You can read it here: prairiehomemag.com/may-2024-p1

We're LIVE with our May 2024 issue of Prairie Home Magazine!
Eleven brilliant new poems we are really proud to share with you all.
Please have a read here--we are grateful to all who submitted this spring!
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prairiehomemag.com/may-2024-issue

For our first-ever summer issue, we are dedicating our platform to the preservation of Palestinian perspectives, art, and culture. Submissions will be free, with each accepted contributor receiving a minimum honorarium of $50. Submissions will open May 1 and close June 15.🍉🍉🍉

“We are willing to risk our educations, our futures, everything, because people in Palestine have not been given the opportunity to see theirs realized.” College solidarity encampments spread as calls for divestment from Israel grow, Sravya Tadepalli writes.
prismreports.org/2024/04/29/col…

Today was kind of perfect: coffee, kidical mass, tofu scramble, reading on the couch with the cats, taking a nap in the afternoon with the window open, and now reading in bed.

On April 17 Alex Tretbar and Natalye exposed in Prism that @PENAmerica, a multimillion dollar literary organization, hasn't been paying all of its incarcerated literary prize winners. The prizes represent a small fortune in prison. prismreports.org/2024/04/17/pen…

Hey Polizei Berlin, warum parken Sie auf dem Radweg?

imagine losing access to your education for protesting a genocide that has wiped out every school in gaza

Ten years ago today was the last time that residents in Flint, Michigan, had clean water. capitalbnews.org/flint-water-cr…

no trying to cover now, PEN. we know you. you say you protect free speech everywhere, but where is everywhere? we’ve seen that it’s not in prisons, and not in palestine

Being human is complicated. It's hard. Inevitably, you will hurt or harm other people, even when you don't mean to, and sometimes even in the process of trying to help other people.

Wow.

'Jean Stein was a passionate advocate for Palestinian rights...the Estate of Jean Stein has directed PEN America to donate the $75,000 award to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.” lithub.com/the-pen-americ…

Clearly there were no native English speakers in the room on the day they decided on the name.

Lydia Kiesling and they're just like 'but you don't underSTAND, payment admin is HARD, i had to ANSWER EMAILS and FORWARD THEM TO PEOPLE, i'm JUST A LITTLE NONPROFIT'

🚨UPDATE: Hear the chants of over 1000 of Columbia University/Barnard students, faculty, alumni, and affiliates as they call for disclosure and divestment of CU funding of Israel and its genocide of Palestinians. They are also calling for amnesty for all students and faculty…

Also I don't understand why the prize money for writers outside of prison can be as high as $75,000 but the prize money for writers inside of prison is $250. prismreports.org/2024/04/17/pen…