PEN Oakland announces it’s 19th Annual Josephine Miles Literary Award.  Authors will read brief selections from their works followed by a reception. The event is open to the public.

The recipients of the 2009 Awards are:

My Piece of the Puzzle, by Doren Robbins (Eastern Washington University Press)
Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Skills and Frames, by Charles L. Robinson and Al Young (Heyday Press)
Still Alive! by Herbert Gold (Arcade Press)
Will Have Been by Janice Blue (Beatitude Press)
Sophia’s Exit Strategy by C. Paolo Caruso (Xlibris Press)
Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance by Richard Bruce Nugent (Da Capo Press)
Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Awards: A.D. Winans, Harriet Rohmer, and Kristin Lattany

Censorship Award: Jefferson Morley