penlive:

PEN World Voices to Be Broadcast from PENLive! on Tumblr

Next week, the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature will be broadcast from PEN’s dedicated Tumblr account, PENlive!. Our crack team of festival correspondents hail from France, Ireland, Brazil, and the People’s Republic of Brooklyn and will be posting videos, photos, and longform pieces from our events.

According to PEN Website Editor Antonio Aiello:

We chose Tumblr again for our blogging platform for PEN World Voices because it allows our festival correspondents to easily broadcast live, in real time, from more than 40 events with 100 authors from 25 countries. And Tumblr loves writers. Can’t argue with that.

The festival runs from April 29-May 5 and offers events ranging from translation to poetry to endangered languages and human rights.

Go to worldvoices.pen.org to learn more. And don’t forget to follow our main Tumblr account penamerican.tumblr.com.

photo of Adeeba Talukdar © PEN American Center / Susan Horgan

Thing 1) This is really cool and exciting and an amazing resource for people who can’t make it to the festival in person!

Thing 2) BRB, getting “Tumblr loves writers. Can’t argue with that.” tattooed on my face.

If you liked Rachel-eats-Shake-Shack-with-Cory-Doctorow, you’ll love Cory-Doctorow-joins-Tumblr!

penamerican:

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OPENING NIGHT READING: BRAVERY

The Ninth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature

Hosted by comedian Baratunde Thurston

Monday, April 29, 7-8:30 p.m., The Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, NYC

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Bravery in art, democracy in politics, and the sheer raw zeniths and nadirs of modern life. Join us as we kick off this year’s festival with a stellar line-up of authors including NAJWAN DARWISH, “one of the 39 best Arab writers under the age of 40”; JOY HARJO, a formidable voice in the second wave of “Native American Renaissance”; MIKHAIL SHISHKIN, one of the best contemporary Russian writers; award-winning Caribbean writers JAMAICA KINCAID and EARL LOVELACE; 2012 German Book Prize winner URSULA KRECHEL; Air Force Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force DAVID FRAKT whose defense counsel of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad earned him an international reputation as a champion of human rights; Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve DARREL VANDEVELD, former prosecutor for the U.S. Military Commissions, from which he resigned to protest the lack of due process afforded to the Guantanamo detainees; up-and-coming Nigerian writer A. IGONI BARRETT, whose Love Is Power, Or Something Like That, is due in May; and VADDEY RATNER, survivor of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime and author of the New York Times bestseller In the Shadow of the Banyan. 

The event is hosted by comedian BARATUNDE THURSTON, formerly of The Onion and author of the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black. 

PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, April 29-May 5, 2013. Chaired by Salman Rushdie, this year’s festival explores bravery in art, politics and personal life. Join us for a variety of events including panel discussions, one-on-one conversations, participatory workshops and performances at venues crisscrossing the city. 

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photo of Joy Harjo © Karen Kuehn

Holy crap that is a lot of brilliant people. And let’s face it, no one doesn’t have a crush on Baratunde. Buy tickets now!

riverheadbooks:

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After seeing book lists like this and promotions like this, it is doing my soul good to Riverhead celebrating some of the AMAZING writers they publish who aren’t straight white dudes over 70. Enter this contest, follow Riverhead, and/or run-don’t-walk to your favorite bookstore and check these authors out!

unwrapping:

How Authors Should Use Tumblr:
A Five-step Guide by Tumblr’s Rachel Fershleiser (from GalleyCat’s Jason Boog: “What Writers Need To Know About Tumblr”)

6. Make me fancy gifs so I’ll love you forever!

heidijulavits:

AMANDA DAVIS

Ten years ago today, writer Amanda Davis died in an airplane accident. If you were not lucky enough to know her, you can read about her here. She is missed and mourned right now as hard as she was on March 14, 2003, and during the weeks and months and years that followed. To the sky that took her, please send news. She is still receiving. 

She wrote two gorgeous books, Wonder When You’ll Miss Me and Circling The Drain, both of which come highly, highly recommended for fans of coming-of-age, circus, or women-processing-their-shit literature.

ransomriggs:

It’s the miss peregrine house — the one that appears in the book trailer — in its heyday 100 yrs ago! Thanks to Cathy Stapleton for finding it!

Did y’all know that Ransom Riggs is on Tumblr? Pretty excited about it…

The Tumblr social network has helped countless writers connect with readers over the last few years and it is still growing. Last year, we caught up with Tumblr literary outreach Rachel Fershleiser for some advice about using the network. She shared five useful tips for writers who want to explore the social network. You can read her link-filled advice below…

(via What Writers Need To Know About Tumblr - GalleyCat)

I’m not sure why this was reposted today, but I stand by the advice as the easiest way to get started, gain followers, and influence people. Enjoy!