Pen It

January 1, 2020, began on a Wednesday at midnight. For many, it started with a celebration filled with laugher and high hopes for a prosperous year. Well, that’s the perspective of the United States of America. Far beyond the US’s celebrations or the ordinary days of others, a deadly global pandemic was rapidly growing amid a gut-wrenching racial injustice that has been increasing seemingly forever. From the World Health Organization (WHO) announcing the deadly coronavirus’ emergence in Wuhan, China, to the tragic death of NBA legendary Los Angeles Laker’s basketball player Kobe Bryant; along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, to the stock market crash of 2020, to the brutal police-involved killings of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd and continued fight of the Black Lives Matter movement, to the arrival of the murder hornets in the US, and still, we’re just highway. Pen It teams writers, aspiring authors, and seasoned authors to share their collective experiences of 2020. Pen It captures real-time accounts, emotions, and thoughts of the individuals who lived each day with anger, anticipation, grief, hope, sadness, and triumph. 2020 came in with a bang. Its path is leaving an impression on the hearts and the minds of the entire world. In the future, readers will not have to wonder what happened in 2020. The children of tomorrow will be able to read the accounts that the contributing authors share and chart the emotional states and viewpoints of those present as the year unfolded.