2019 PEN Courage Award honoree Anita Hill

PEN America will honor professor, lawyer, and equal rights advocate Anita Hill with the PEN Courage Award

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2019 PEN/Hemingway Award winner There There by Tommy Orange

Breakout Novelist Tommy Orange Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for There There

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2019 Freedom To Write Honorees Eman Al-Nafjan and Loujain Al-Hathloul

PEN America will honor imprisoned activist-writers with the Freedom to Write Award at the 2019 Literary Gala on 5/21

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Institutionalizing Censorship: Cuba’s Decree 349 Poses Expansive Restrictions on Artistic Freedom | Read the Report

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Announcing the 2019 PEN World Voices Festival: Open Secrets | Join us from May 6-12, 2019

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Join the Office of University Life and @PENamerican for a a thought-provoking panel discussion about free speech on campus followed by student-led conversations on advancing inclusivity. THU 4/4 @ 12 pm, Pulitzer Hall.

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Tomorrow night at @RubinMuseum, @AnuBhagwati, a Marine Corps veteran and memoirist, meets with neuroscientist Dr. Jennifer Chan to discuss how our experiences make our brains resilient and how meditation might benefit military personnel and their partners. https://t.co/zezOx2Ti1w

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THIS EVENING: Join our conversation about how art transcends boundaries & borders, at Pan-African Connection on S. Marsalis
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