Nonfiction Night Held at Pen Parentis 5/13 At Libertine Library at Gild Hall

Time management, anger control, early childhood survival tips-and the experts who wrote about them! On a new day and at a new time, the Pen Parentis Literary Salon presents three nonfiction books and the authors who penned them: Laura Vanderkam (168 HOURS), Kristen Schultz Dollard (CALM MOM: PUTTING THE OM IN MOM) and Mary Ann Zoellner and Alicia Ybarbo, Emmy award-winning producers for NBC's TODAY with their new book TODAY'S MOMS.

Pen Parentis Nonfiction Night is on Thursday, May 13th, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, in the handsomely appointed Libertine Library at Gild Hall (15 Gold Street at Platt in Lower Manhattan).

The four nonfiction authors share the stage to read from their newest work, then sign books and mingle with authors and readers alike. Pen Parentis, the sponsor of this open arts event series, is a local organization that provides resources to authors who are also parents.

Pen Parentis founders, local authors M. M. De Voe and Arlaina Tibensky, lead the pair of notable writers in discussing how parenthood has affected their successful careers. Full bar and small plates are available at happy hour prices from the private, upstairs bartender.

Admission is free. Donations warmly accepted. For more information consult the Pen Parentis website at www.penparentis.org.

Description: On a new day and at a new time, the Pen Parentis Literary Salon presents three nonfiction books and the authors who penned them: Laura Vanderkam (168 HOURS), Kristen Schultz Dollard (CALM MOM: PUTTING THE OM IN MOM) and Mary Ann Zoellner and Alicia Ybarbo, Emmy award-winning producers for NBC's TODAY with their new book TODAY'S MOMS. Book signings. Networking. Full bar & light meals available.
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010

Time: 6:30 pm -8:30 pm

Location: The Libertine Library at Gild Hall, second floor. Enter through the elegant lobby of the Gild Hall Hotel, 15 Gold Street (at Platt), Lower Manhattan.
Admission: FREE. All are welcome!

Subways: 2/3, 4/5, and J/M/Z at Fulton, A/C at Broadway/Nassau, E or PATH at WTC.

Ten minutes' walk from anywhere in the Financial District-come after work!

Sponsor: Pen Parentis, founded in 2008, provides resources to authors who are parents. In addition to hosting the most elegant reading series in Manhattan and a generous writing fellowship for new parents, the organization's goals include public promotion of authors' works, inspirational panel discussions and support groups for authors who feel torn between family and creative genius, grants for child-care, and ultimately, a writing center that partners with groups that provide drop-off children's programming.