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There’s a Book for That: National Parks

As we say goodbye to July, we don’t want to miss recognizing that July is National Park and Recreation Month. “Since 1985, people in the United States have celebrated Park and Recreation Month in July to promote building strong, vibrant and resilient communities through the power of parks and recreation…This year’s theme — “Where Community Grows” — celebrates the vital role park and recreation professionals play in bringing people together, providing essential services and fostering the growth of our communities.” (NRPA) Continue reading →

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Veronica Valerio on Nurturing a Passion for Social Impact Work

Wondering how the Creative Writing Awards come together? Meet Veronica Valerio, Senior Manager, Corporate Giving and learn more about her Path to Penguin Random House, what drives her passion for social impact work, and what moments of the CWAs have been most memorable throughout her 22+ years of working on the program!

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Meet Our 2023 Creative Writing Award Winners!

The Penguin Random House Creative Writing Awards honor promising young writers in
public schools nationwide who are daringly original and unafraid to take risks in their
writing. Since 1993, the program has awarded more than $2.9 million to public high school students for original poetry, memoir/personal essay, fiction/drama, and spoken word compositions. This year, we are thrilled to be celebrating our 30 year anniversary!

The five $10,000 scholarship winners, received direct access to publishing professionals through a series of virtual events designed and hosted by the PRH Corporate Communications Team. We checked in our 2023 CWA winners, Gloria Blumenkrantz, Madison Corzine, Isabella Rayner, Melissa Vera and Karen Yang, to hear about their feelings on their pieces, their awards, and their hopes for the future. Continue reading →

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Spotlight on Our PRH Colleagues & CWA Volunteers

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Introducing Intern Spotlights: Meet Hana Kim!

We are excited to introduce an all new mini-series spotlighting our 2023 summer interns! This four-part series will give you a glimpse into who our interns are and why they wanted to be a part of PRH as we lead up to the intern edition of PRH Community Newsletter: Bookmarked. Continue reading →

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Jamie Lee Curtis to Publish Children’s Book with Penguin Young Readers in 2024

Jamie Lee Curtis photo is courtesy of IMBd.

Last week, Jamie Lee Curtis, Academy Award winning actress and New York Times bestselling author will reunite with illustrator Laura Cornell on new children’s book JUST ONE MORE SLEEP (Philomel Books), coming January 2024. The children’s picture book is a celebration of delayed gratification and it serves as new self-help book for kids that explains why waiting can be wonderful—and can give you a reason to cheer all year round, from New Year’s Day to Kwanzaa, and all the holidays in between.

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4 PRH Titles Make Barack Obama’s 2023 Summer Reading List

Barack Obama photo credit: NBCU via Getty Images.

Just last week, Barack Obama released his 2023 Summer Read List. As book banning continues across the country, Obama also penned a letter to librarians thanking them for defending the right to read. The titles selected are meaningful reads and Penguin Random House is proud to have four of its titles and one Penguin Random House Publisher Services client title make Obama’s 2023 Reading List! Discover the titles below.

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PRH Supports Student-Led Pride Event at New College of Florida

In May, Penguin Random House donated over 150 LGBTQ+ books across eleven divisions for a student-led Pride event at the New College of Florida. If the name of the school sounds familiar, it may be because New College has been in the news recently. It’s currently a site where partisan politics and educational freedom are clashing in a way that’s not unrelated to the wave of book banning we’ve been seeing throughout the nation. On its campus, Florida’s Governor DeSantis recently signed S.B. 266 into law while student activists protested outside. As a result of the recent appointments by Gov. DeSantis to the New College Board of Trustees in support of his views, students have been restricted in the kinds of activities they can do with school funds—including DEI and LGBTQ events like Pride.

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Weekend Reads: “Barbenheimer”

Tomorrow is July 21st, which means Barbenheimer is upon us!

If this sounds new to you, The New York Times explained the cultural phenomenon as: “Fans have been waiting for this summer’s release of two movies — ‘Barbie,’ from Warner Bros. and directed by Greta Gerwig, and ‘Oppenheimer,’ from Universal Pictures and directed by Christopher Nolan — which are both coming out on July 21, and they have been poking fun at the stark contrast in the movies’ themes, moods and color schemes. The result of the release schedule is a mash-up many people may not have seen coming: Barbenheimer. Or Boppenheimer, if you will.” Continue reading →

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