

CNY Branch Pen Women Receive Central New York Arts Community Grant
CNY Branch Pen Women Vanessa Johnson and Karen Hempson recently wrote a grant and heard that the CNY Branch was awarded almost $5000 from...
Featured Poet Fagal on NLAPW Website
Janet Fagal's poem "HIndsight, 2020" is the current Featured Poem at the NLAPW website, posted on Aug. 24, 2021."Hindsight, An epistolary...


Summer Surprises! CNY Branch Exciting News From Members
Janet Fagal’s poem about finding animal shapes in puffy summer clouds, “Take 10 to Find Ten,” was accepted for Bridget Magee’s latest...


Pen Women Writers Perform Reading of Ekphrastic Responses to Schweinfurth's "Made in New York"
The CNY Branch of the NLAPW writers performed an ekphrastic reading of original work responding to the "Made in New York" exhibition at...
CNY Branch Member Vanessa Johnson Stars in Paul Robeson Performing Arts Production
Vanessa Johnson had a multi-starring role in Paul Robeson Performing Arts production of "Comb Your Hair (or You'll Look Like a Slave)" by...


CNY Branch's Arts Speaks Exhibition Opens in Celebration of the Branch's 95th Anniversary
Twenty members of the Central New York (CNY) Branch of the National League of American Pen Women – ten artists and ten writers – were...
CNY Branch Member Vanessa Johnson's Play "Cages" Premiers with the Syracuse City School District
New CNY Branch member Vanessa Johnson recently penned a one-act play takes place in a Detention Center on the Texas-Mexico border. Her...


Three CNY Branch Pen Women Named Finalists in William Faulkner/William Wisdom Competition
The Pirates Alley Faulkner Society has announced the winners and finalists in the 2020 William Faulkner/William Wisdom creative writing...
Gardner Poetry Reading with FootHills Publishing
Mary Gardner has been invited by FootHills Publishing to join a dozen FHP poets in a ZOOM poetry reading on May 5, 2021. This an annual...


Welcome New CNY Branch Member Sheila Myers
The Central New York (CNY) Branch of the NLAPW is pleased to welcome novelist, historical researcher, and educator Sheila Myers as a new...