WRITERS-AT-LARGE
Injustice to one is injustice to all…
 
That which is united by necessity can never be divided…

Writers-at-Large, a new California-based advocacy group, invites your participation, as a writer of any genre, in this effort for increased literary arts awareness, education, and funding, as well as to speak out against the rising tide of censorship which threatens our media, public school curricula, and public libraries.  It’s time to demand accountability for incarceration of journalists who refuse to play ball with federal investigators.

We need your help in raising consciousness about the importance of the written word to progressive social change, as well as to let legislators, elected officials, school boards, and the courts know—an injustice to one is an injustice to all.  Join former state senator, writer, activist Tom Hayden, immediate past president of PEN USA, and best-selling author, Jonathan Kirsch, Gerald Nicosia, Executive Director of Center for Creative Voices in Media, and screenwriter, Jonathan Rintels, City Lights Bookstore publishers Nancy J. Peters and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, former director of the California Arts Council, Barry Hessenius, Executive Director of Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Charles Brownstein, poets David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, Jack Foley, and other endorsers, in this effort.

There are no membership criteria, and no membership dues. All you have to do is show up – whether literally, or figuratively. The time is now, the place is now; the need is now!
 
For more information, and to sign up
Contact: Jayne Lyn Stahl, Project Director and Founder jayne.stahl@gmail.com

“Where they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.”
Heinrich Heine (1821)

Writers-at-large is a proud member of the Intersection Incubator, a program of Intersection Center for the Arts providing fiscal sponsorship, incubation and consultation to artists www.theintersection.org and is funded by the California Arts Council.