Writers Descend on Washington, Promptly Resist
Read more about the Free Speech Vigil and other forms of writer's resistance at AWP 2017 in the blog Ploughshares from Emerson College. About the vigil, Split This Rock Executive Director, Sarah Browning explained the focus of the vigil by noting that “freedom of expression is the fundamental human right upon which all others are built–we can’t organize, make art, worship, dissent, gather freely, if we can’t speak freely. It makes sense for writers and artists to concentrate on this essential human right now.” Read the full blog here.