All at Once

PEN is a global literary community dedicated to human rights, and freedom of speech. The PEN Prison Writing Project provides inmates with teaching artists to conduct writing workshops.  PEN's Handbook for Writers in Prison is "an invaluable resource to any incarcerated writer."  

Learn more about PEN at their website.

Also: Hello, World: Diaries by Men and Women in American Prisons at the Anne Frank Center  38 Crosby Street, 5th floor. Click here for directions and gallery hours.

Finally: It is Friday, and ATA is on Facebook, along with everyone else. Tell your friends!

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Cartoonist Lynda Barry is our last guest.

Here she is in a New York Time's profile from 2008.

How to Think Like a Surreal Cartoonist

By CAROL KINO

Published: May 11, 2008

In her two-day writer’s workshop, Lynda Barry sings, tells jokes, acts out characters and even dances a creditably sensual hula.

Also: Lynda Barry's book @ Amazon; What It Is.

Also: Lynda Barry @ Myspace.

Plus: Lynda Barry, on youtube, talks about children, creativity and play. She's funny,ha, ha.

TGIF.

I'm out.