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Treasures from the PEN America Archives Celebrates 100th Year in NY Historical Society Exhibit Opening July 22
Highlights include a letter from poet T.S. Eliot in 1948, expressing his “distress and terror” over a dinner being organized in his honor; cocktail party invitations sent between 1951… More
PEN America Opens Submissions for 2023 Literary Awards
(NEW YORK)-- The literary and free expression organization PEN America today announced the opening of submissions and nominations for the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards. Submissions for book awards… More
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We stand in solidarity with writer and Kurdish PEN member Meral Şimşek, who faces a 5-year prison sentence in Turkey on baseless “terrorism” related charges for her #FreeExpression. The Turkish authorities must drop all charges against Şimşek.
Earlier this month, PEN America's director of Eurasia programs @psadovskaya2020 was in Yerevan for “Burning Poet(s),” a trilingual poetry event featuring writing in Georgian, Armenian, & English. Read more about her experiences in her new blog post here: https://bit.ly/39Th4pl.
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