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Truth and Solutions: Roundtable on Equity in Children’s and Young Adult Book Publishing
Part of The PEN Equity Project, Fatima Shaik, Cheryl Klein, Wade Hudson, Daniel José Older, Robie Harris, and Alvina Ling discuss equity in children's and young adult publishing. More
2016 PEN/Voelcker Award
Winner Ed Roberson The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, established by a bequest from Hunce Voelcker, this award is given to a poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to… More
The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture at the PEN World Voices Festival
“So I imagine that the originators [of PEN] believed that what was required, if mankind was not to destroy itself, was an organized reminder that humanity’s survival transcended any… More
PEN World Voices Festival: Edwidge Danticat on how “a story is never really yours”
Edwidge Danticat spoke to John Freeman about how stories are community property, what it means to write for others, and finding a sense of home in Haitian art and… More
PEN World Voices Festival: A Night of Prayer and Meditation
The desired effect—of evoking a religious service—was, by my accounting, achieved. As I sat, I felt my pulse slow. The setting, and the task at hand—giving ourselves over to… More
2015 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
Winner Burton Watson The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is given every three years to a translator whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through the body of his or… More
PEN Member Arrested for Supporting Hong Kong Protests
As pro-democracy protests enter their third week in Hong Kong, Beijing’s efforts to suppress information on and support for the occupy movement have extended to PEN’s ranks as Independent… More
PEN Announces 2014 Translation Fund Winners
From a field of 120 applicants, the Fund’s Advisory Board has selected fifteen projects for funding. More
Keeping Writers Safe Online: An Interview with the Tor Project
Tor is one of the foremost tools to support digital safety for writers. We spoke with Andrew Lewman, executive director of the Tor Project, about anonymity, encryption, and the… More
Babette’s Feast 2.0: Scandinavia House
Though the evening’s five authors conjured scenes of mealtime and family gatherings, these were not stories of transcendence, but of unspoken traumas and mental illnesses, of moving cars and… More
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