PEN Celebrates Victory in Tariq Ramadan Case

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has signed orders effectively ending the exclusion of Swiss Scholar Tariq Ramadan from the United States, calling the move “a step towards restoring the First Amendment right of American citizens to seek a full range of information and ideas.” [More]

WRITERS RALLY FOR RELEASE OF LIU XIAOBO

E.L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Edward Albee, A.M. Homes, Honor Moore, and other PEN Members gather on the steps of the New York Public Library to demand the release of writer Liu Xiaobo, who was sentenced on Christmas Day to 11 years in prison in China. [More]

YEAR IN REVIEW

2009 was a year of both celebrations and loss. As an organization, PEN was awarded the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award; we celebrated the fifth anniversary of the PEN World Voices Festival as well as the tenth and eleventh issues of PEN America, our award winning literary journal. 2009 was not all celebrations. [More]

UPCOMING EVENT

Crafting a Career as a Children’s or Young Adult Author—Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow