PEN Oakland

https://www.youtube.com/watch For those of you who missed the ceremony. Here is is.

https://zoom.us/j/98864011286 Here is the link to the PEN Oakland Award ceremony.

Please come out this Saturday for our 30th Annual PEN Oakland Awards.

http://www.oaklandlibrary.org//2019-pen-oakland-josephine-

PEN Oakland announces the Winners of the 30th Annual Josephine Miles Awards for Excellence Oakland, CACalled by The New York Times, The Blue Collar PEN, PEN Oakland announces the Winners of the 30th Annual PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Awards, The 2019 PEN Oakland Award winners will be formally recognized on Saturday, December 7, from 2:00-5:00 p.m. at the Rockridge Library, 5366 College Avenue in Oakland. This event is open to the public. PEN Oakland Josephine Miles awards,... named for the late poet and Professor at The University of California at Berkeley, were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. In addition there is an Adelle Foley Award, a Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award and a Gary Webb Anti -Censorship award. The 2019 PEN Oakland Award Recipients Are: Josephine Miles Award Richard Powers, The Overstory (W.W Norton & Co.) Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele, When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Saint Martin’s Press) Ha Jin, A Distant Center (Copper Canyon Press) Jamel Brinkley, Lucky Man (Graywolf Press) David Blight, Frederick Douglass: A Prophet of Freedom (Simon& Schuster) Kalamu ya Salaam, Be About Beauty (University of New Orleans Press) Vernon Keeve III, Southern Migrant Mixtape (Nomadic Press) James Cagney, Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press) Jason Lutes, Berlin (Drawn and Quarterly, Farrar Straus and Giroux) Adelle Foley Award Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gary Webb Censorship Award Kim Shuck Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award: Percival Everett

29th Annual PEN Oakland Awards on December 2, 2018. Back Left to Right: Emil Guillermo, M.L. Liebler, Julie Lythcott-Haims, Jack Foley, Al Young, Paul Ortiz, Ana Castillo, Andrew Sean Greer, Ishmael Reed. Front Left to Right: Jerome Rothenberg, Avotcja.

29th Annual PEN Oakland Awards. Top Left to Right: Emil Guillermo, M.L. Liebler, Julie Lythcott-Haims, Jack Foley, Al Young, Paul Ortiz, Ana Castillo, Andrew Sean Greer, Ishmael Reed. Bottom Left to Right: Jerome Rothenberg, Avotcja.

Winners of 2018 PEN Oakland awards.Ceremony Dec.2, Koret Library SF 2-5. Josephine Miles: M.L. Liebler Julie Lythcott-Haims... Paul Ortiz Jerome Rothenberg Percival Everett Tongo Eisen-Martin Andrew Sean Greer Adele Foley Award: Avotcja Censorship Award: The Honorable Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award: Ana Castillo

KPFA support for our upcoming event #SuchFreedoms #PENOakland

The Octopus Literary Salon link w/event info:

Broadsides are going up all around uptown. Come on out to the Octopus Literary Salon on 8/12 @ 7:00 PM . . . #PENOakland #SuchFreedoms