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2023 PEN America World Voices Festival: Day 4 Highlights
PEN America's 2023 World Voices Festival wrapped up on Saturday with a blow-out closing night event worthy of four days of poignant conversations exploring the vitality of the written… More
2023 PEN America World Voices Festival: Day 3 Highlights
The third day of PEN America's 2023 World Voices Festival on Friday featured food, feminism, and deep dives on history in 12 events packed with lovers of literature. More
2023 PEN America World Voices Festival: Day 2 Highlights
Ta-Nehisi Coates delivered the keynote Arthur Miller Freedom to Write lecture on Thursday at PEN America's 2023 World Voices Festival. More
2023 PEN America World Voices Festival: Day 1 Highlights
PEN America's 2023 World Voices Festival kicked off its celebration of international literature featuring more than 100 writers from 27 countries with blockbuster opening night events. More
The 11 Most Banned Books of the Start of the 2022-2023 School Year
These were the 11 most banned books at the start of the 2022-2023 school year, according to PEN America's Index of Banned Books. More
Countering misinformation and disinformation about the indictment of former President Donald Trump
The public is likely to be inundated with conflicting information, some of it reliable, some of it accidental misinformation, and some of it deliberate disinformation. PEN America offers the… More
Frequently Banned Books Featuring Transgender Stories
In national efforts to ban books and restrict content on LGBTQ+ characters and themes, stories on transgender individuals and characters are commonly challenged and banned, making up about 9%… More
Ann Patchett Invites Community In After School Shooting
In an emotional video on social media, Ann Patchett sent love to those at the nearby Covenant School and invited community members to her store, Parnassus Books, if they… More
PEN America: ‘This escalating battle for control over free expression in education should worry us all’
PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel testified that the rise in educational gag orders and "escalating battle for control over free expression in education should worry us all." More
10 Surprising Things Banned in U.S. Schools
Across the country, schools are making choices to restrict not only books, but also songs by Dolly Parton, Miley Cyrus and the Muppets, The Addams Family musical and more. More