Ana Castillo

PEN Oakland Book Awards: Ana Castillo, Avotcja, Tongo Eisen-Martin, more

2 DECEMBER 2018 — sunday

The 28th Annual PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Awards honor outstanding literary achievement in America's diverse literary community, 2018 recipients are Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven is All Goodbyes, City Lights Books; Jerome Rothenberg, Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania, University of California Press; Percival Everett, So Much Blue, Graywolf Press; Andrew Sean Greer, Less, Lee Boudreaux Books; Julie Lythcott-Haims, Real American, Henry Holt; Paul Ortiz, An African American and Latinx History of the United States, ReVisioning American History/Beacon Press; M.L. Liebler, Heaven was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond, Wayne State University Press; Adelle Foley Award will be presented to poet and percussionist Avotcja; Gary Webb Anti-Censorship Award presented to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf; Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award to fiction writer and poet Ana Castillo; Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, 2:00-5:00 (sfpl.org)