City of Asylum

For two years we provide a furnished house, a living stipend, medical coverage, and help in transitioning to potentially permanent exile.

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Khet Mar
is City of Asylum/Pittsburgh’s current writer-in-residence.  She is a journalist, novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist from Burma.  She and her husband Than Htay, a visual artist, are creating the third house in our “house publications” project on Sampsonia Way.  The couple has two sons, aged 8 and 12.

Khet Mar at PEN World Voices

Than Htay in Gestures at the Mattress Factory

City of Asylum/Pittsburgh's "house permutation" project in Ode Magazine


 

City of Asylum/Pittsburgh launches a new web magazine



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We are an all-volunteer organization, so your donation goes a long way. Donations are 100% tax deductible.
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Universities, Associations, Book Clubs and Book Lovers... It's easy to arrange a reading by one of the writers-in-residence. EMAIL US for more information.

Dave Bjornson was awarded our 2009  "Preserving Endangered Voices Award."  Dave is the technical guru behind Jazz Poetry, and he has put in hundreds of hours each year to make it possible.
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INTERESTING TIMES FOR US!

City of Asylum/Pittsburgh has been selected as one of only six Awardees for the 2009 MetLife Innovative Space awards.  We were recognized for our writer-residency program on Sampsonia Way.  READ MORE



Also, after his reading for City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, George Packer blogged on his experiences on Sampsonia Way in the New Yorker.
CLICK HERE to read George Packer's blog.




Highlights from Jazz Poetry 2009