A WHOLE NEW WORLD - Readings and Talkback with Literary Parents

with: JOSE DiPIEROLA, SHERI T JOSEPH, DOMENICA RUTA, AND RENEE SIMMS

READINGS ARE FOLLOWED BY INTIMATE, MODERATED, AUDIENCE-DRIVEN CHAT SURROUNDING A CURATED THEME

OUR BELOVED CURATOR IS MOVING ON TO BEAUTIFUL THINGS -- COME SAY GOODBYE TO CHRISTINA CHIU AT HER LAST SALON!

PEN PARENTIS LITERARY SALONS FEATURE GREAT WORK BY WRITERS WHO ARE ALSO PARENTS

Our Salons are always especially warm and joyous - join us on the Second Tuesday of each month during the school year to see why writers like Jennifer Egan, Min Jin Lee, Victor LaValle, and Tina Chang rave about our nonprofit!

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DECEMBER FEATURED WRITERS (all have kids)

Intimate discussion of the process of writing while parenting - various solutions to the problems of time, energy and money, and a deep-dive exploration of the creative practice of our featured writers--from emerging young parents to established writers with grown-and-flown kids--novelists, essayists, and poets discuss all aspects of maintaining a creative writing career while parenting: featuring JOSE DiPIEROLA, SHERI T JOSEPH, DOMENICA RUTA, AND RENEE SIMMS

Every writer should be encouraged to thrive and should be able to find a supportive arts community to help them stay on creative track.

IN ADDITION TO A MONTHLY THEME, DISCUSSIONS CENTER ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE, CREATIVE PRACTICE, AND WRITING CRAFT.

MODERATORS:

M. M. DE VOE & CHRISTINA CHIU (come say goodbye!)

All of our programs help writers who have kids. We build and support in-person and online writer-parent communities to encourage the production of new, high-quality written work, and we offer individual aid to these writers whenever possible.

PEN PARENTIS is a federally recognized 501c3 non-profit literary organization registered in the State of New York.Since 2009, we have been bringing the heart of the NYC Literary Community to writer-parents who are isolated by their family status or merely by geography.

We are grateful to the Poetry Foundation for their generous support