[News] PEN Oakland Honors Lincoln Bergman and the Freedom Archives - Saturday, Dec 5th

[Anti-Imperialist News]

*PEN OAKLAND *Dubbed “The Blue Collar PEN" by /The New York Times/

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*25th Annual 2015 Literary Awards****

Saturday, December 5, 2015, 2 PM – 5 PM*

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Oakland Public Library, Main Library,
12514^th Street *


The ceremony, which will include brief readings by the winning authors, 
is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception and 
book signings.  For further information, please contact John Curl at 
(510) 526-9324 or Kim McMillon at (510) 681-5652.

PEN Oakland, founded in 1989, is a chapter of PEN USA and PEN 
International, begun in 1921. Dubbed "the blue collar PEN" by the New 
York Times, PEN Oakland annually sponsors the PEN Oakland-Josephine 
Miles Book Awards, named for the late poet and faculty member of U.C. 
Berkeley's English Department. This year marks the 25th anniversary of 
the awards. Each year PEN Oakland presents an award to outstanding book 
titles published in the previous year. The Awards were created 
twenty-four years ago to honor writers of exceptional works often not 
acknowledged by the mainstream literary community.Judged by respected 
writers, the awards honor books that both reflect a multi-cultural or 
marginalized viewpoint and represent the highest standards of literature.


*_CENSORSHIP & LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS_*

*_Lifetime Achievement Award:_***

*Marvin X*and *Avotcja *

*_Censorship Award:_***

*Lincoln Bergman for Freedom Archives *


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THE 2015 PEN OAKLAND-JOSEPHINE MILES LITERARY AWARD WINNERS_****__*

*Congregation by Natasha Trethewey*

(Dryad Press and the William Meredith Foundation)

[Judge: E. Ethelbert Miller]

*Haiti Glass by Lenelle Moise *

(City Lights Books)

[Judge: devorah major]

*Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine *

(Graywolf Press)

[Judge: Jill Nelson]

*Bless the Ashes by Peter Harris*

(Tia Chucha)

[Judge: Opal Palmer Adisa]

*Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, by Deborah A. Miranda *

(Heyday Books)

[Judge: Clifford E. Trafzer])

*An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, by Roxanne 
Dunbar-Ortiz *

(Beacon Press)

[Judge: Nanette Deetz]

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Freedom Archives 522 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415 
863.9977 www.freedomarchives.org
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