Event: Telling the (Whole) Story: Celebrating Writers of Color (12/05/05)

Where: Donnell Library Center: 20 West 53rd St., New York City, NY

When: Monday, December 5th at 7 p.m.

What: Paul Auster and Elizabeth Nunez host this evening of readings and discussion, saluting the winners of the 2005 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. Joining in the celebration are writers Esmeralda Santiago and Colin Channer.

The event will include readings from the winning works, followed by a panel discussion on the creative life, its challenges and rewards, as experienced by these rising talents.

The PEN/Beyond Margins Awards recognize as many as five writers of color for their outstanding works published in the previous year. This year’s winners include:

Faith Adiele, for her memoir Meeting Faith, The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun

Raquel Cepeda, for her anthology And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years

Lan Samantha Chang, for her novel Inheritance

Lolita Hernandez, for her short-story collection Autopsy of an Engine and other Stories from the Cadillac Plant

Ishle Yi Park, for her poetry and prose collection The Temperature of This Water

Click here for full bios of the Beyond Margins Award winners.