Presenting an ALL NEW selection from awardees of the 2019 PEN America/Edward Bunker Prize in Fiction
The September 18, 2019 BREAKOUT event (
https://pen.org/event/break-out-brooklyn-book-festival-19/) will feature the 2019 PEN Prison Writing Awards winners and will launch our second annual print anthology, 'As I Hear the Rain.'
Listen to incredible readers bring these works to life, recorded at the Celebration of Edward Bunker event on May 30, 2019 at the Road Theatre in North Hollywood, LA. Special thanks to the Edward Bunker family.
Laurie O'Brien reads 'Tetris' by James Beavers (0:17)
bridgette bianca reads 'Fireside: or immaterial burns' by David Webb (6:09)
Dorothy Randall Gray reads 'First World Problems' by Kevin Schaeffer (13:06)
Darrel Larson reads 'The Last Time I saw Chet' by Sam Jenkins (22:09)
Laurie Okin reads 'Two Birds One Stone' by Brendan Rao (37:39)
Christopher Soto reads 'Rogers Park: Area 52' by Antonio Bowie Rivera (49:15)
Carl Weintraub reads 'Geode' by David Pickett (58:36)
Audio Credit:
Intro by Mark Gallagher
Music by Orquesta Arrecife
Illustration for episode graphic by Jeremy Wilson
Bios of readers
https://pen.org/event/celebrating-edward-bunker/