Advocacy View All Pham Doan Trang: A Courageous Voice for Change Tuesday April 9 Anh-Thu Vo Read More Sign PEN America’s Petition To Protect The Life Of P.M. Dunne, An Incarcerated Author Wednesday March 27 Read More Joint Letter: Extend the mandates of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission and Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran Monday March 18 Read More
Banned Books View All The 11 Most Banned Books of the 2023-2024 School Year Thursday December 12 Lisa Tolin Read More The Hidden Cost of Defending Books: Freedom to Read Advocates Speak Out Wednesday November 27 Read More Native American Heritage Now: An Interview With Dr. Debbie Reese Wednesday November 13 Amulya Hiremath Read More
Campus Free Speech View All PEN America Free Expression Advocacy Institutes Train the Next Generation Monday September 16 Julia Goldberg Read More In Preparing for Protests, Are Campuses Going Too Far? Wednesday August 28 Lisa Tolin Read More Campus Protests Then and Now: How Today’s Encampments Echo History Tuesday July 16 Read More
Disinformation View All For the Texas Tribune, public events help to counteract disinformation Tuesday November 19 Kurt Sampsel Read More How did disinformation affect the election? Here’s what a New York Times reporter thinks. Thursday November 14 Mina Haq Read More Lies Hurt Us All: Humanizing Our Response to Disinformation Monday November 4 Martina Van Norden Read More
Educational Censorship View All Freedom to Read Day of Action 2024: Working Together to Stop Book Bans Wednesday October 30 Read More PEN America Endorses the Magna Charta Universitatum 2020 Wednesday October 9 Jeremy C. Young Read More University of Alabama campuses didn’t have to close their DEI offices. They did anyway. Friday July 26 Samantha LaFrance Read More
Florida View All Miami-Dade Schools Say No Again to LGBTQ+ History Wednesday October 16 Katie Blankenship, Sophia Brown Read More “Thank you for not giving up on Florida”: A rallying cry at the Unified Voices Summit in Orlando Monday July 22 Andrew White Read More Unified Voices Summit in Florida: Educators, Authors, Faith Leaders and Activists Organize for the Right to Read Wednesday July 3 Katie Blankenship Read More
Gala View All Paul Simon’s Remarks Accepting the 2024 PEN/Audible Literary Service Award Tuesday May 21 Read More Georgia Election Workers Remarks at the 2024 PEN America Literary Gala Tuesday May 21 Read More Phạm Đoan Trang Acceptance Speech | 2024 Freedom to Write Award Tuesday May 21 Read More
Global Free Expression View All In Georgia, Writers Are on the Front Lines Friday December 6 Paata Shamugia Read More European Literature Night: Celebrating the Power of Words Across Borders Tuesday December 3 Amulya Hiremath Read More Free Narges Coalition and partners urge UN Human Rights Council to intervene for Narges Mohammadi’s urgent medical release Monday November 18 Read More
Literary Awards View All Announcing The 2024 PEN/Bare Life Review Grant Winners Monday June 17 Read More Announcing The 2024 PEN/Jean Stein Grants For Literary Oral History Winners Monday June 17 Read More Announcing the 2024 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists Monday April 22 Read More
Literary Programs View All Kimberly Nguyen | Emerging Voices Fellow Thursday October 19 Ella Jones Read More Nathan Go | Emerging Voices Fellow Tuesday October 17 Ella Jones Read More 2023 Emerging Voices Fellows | The PEN Ten Interview Thursday September 14 Read More
Membership View All A Year of Books By PEN America Members Thursday December 21 Aleah Gatto Read More PEN America Town Hall: Conversation Amid Crisis Tuesday December 12 Lisa Tolin Read More The Common Core in Action Friday September 25 Read More
Online Abuse & Digital Safety View All Protecting Your Digital Footprint: A Guide for Journalists Wednesday August 28 Viktorya Vilk, Amanda Wells, Malka Margolies Read More Combatting Online Abuse: Practical Tips for Journalists Thursday August 1 Viktorya Vilk, Amanda Wells Read More Risk Assessment and Physical Safety: What Every Journalist Should Know Monday July 1 Jeje Mohamed, Amanda Wells Read More
Organizational View All PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week of Nov. 30 Friday December 6 Amulya Hiremath Read More PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week of Nov. 18 Friday November 22 Amulya Hiremath Read More PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week 0f Nov. 11 Friday November 15 Amulya Hiremath Read More
Prison and Justice Writing View All PEN America Prison Writing Award Winners: 2024 Wednesday October 30 Read More The Book of Judith: Honoring Judith Tannenbaum (1947-2019) Friday August 9 Spoon Jackson, Boston Woodard, Elmo Chattman, Jr., Judith Tannenbaum Read More C. Fausto Cabrera and Zeke Caligiuri on Precarity and Critical Resistance Friday August 9 C. Fausto Cabrera, Ezekiel Caligiuri Read More
Resource View All #FactChallenge: Media Literacy Course on WhatsApp Leading up to the 2024 Elections Friday June 7 Read More Morgan Talty recommends what you should read for Native American Heritage Month Tuesday November 21 Read More Navigating Generative AI and the Threat of Disinformation Wednesday September 27 Read More
Translation View All Response To Letter Regarding Pen/Heim Translation Fund Grants Wednesday July 17 Read More from Don’t Worry Tuesday May 1 Mahsa Mohebali Read More from Neverending Quest for the Other Shore Tuesday May 1 Sylvie Kandé Read More
U.S. Free Expression View All Beyond the Shelves: Three Years of Book Bans and Educational Censorship Friday November 1 Jonathan Friedman Read More How to Vote and Combat Political Disinformation: A Tip Sheet for Election 2024 Tuesday October 22 Read More From Howl to Now: Tracing the History of Censorship Thursday October 10 Amulya Hiremath Read More
World Voices Festival View All A Letter from the President of PEN America: American Authors Demand a Second Draft of PEN America, and the World in Which We Write Thursday April 18 Jennifer Finney Boylan Read More World Voices Festival 2024: A Statement from Former PEN America Presidents Wednesday April 3 Read More 2023 PEN America World Voices Festival: Day 4 Highlights Monday May 15 Lisa Tolin Read More
Writer Opportunities View All Kimberly Nguyen | Emerging Voices Fellow Thursday October 19 Ella Jones Read More Nathan Go | Emerging Voices Fellow Tuesday October 17 Ella Jones Read More The Path to Remembering Wednesday September 23 M. Kiguwa Read More
Writers at Risk View All Vietnam’s Silenced Writers: The Vietnamese Government Falls Short on Human Rights Tuesday October 29 Read More
Writing as Craft View All Gu Byeong-Mo | The PEN Ten Tuesday December 10 Read More Fabienne Josaphat | The PEN Ten Interview Thursday December 5 Kasey Meehan Read More Rita Omokha | The PEN Ten Interview Tuesday December 3 Christian Omoruyi Read More
