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A year ago we wrote on this page about our ambitious plans for 2020, our fiftieth anniversary year. We laid out our commitment to empowering writers and strengthening literary communities as well as our plan to launch a fundraising campaign that would help fuel new programs to make our vision a reality.

Everything changed in March when the global pandemic forced us to temporarily close our New York

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