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Grandmother Power!
Paola Gianturco's moving book Grandmother Power profiles grandmother activists in 15 countries on five continents about their human rights work. In this chilling excerpt, we learn how grandmothers in… More
PEN Presses UN on Free Expression in Nigeria and China
PEN's submissions to the UN on Nigeria and China spotlight widespread censorship and dangers for writers, musicians, and filmmakers. More
PEN Ups Pressure in Mexico as Another Journalist Is Murdered
The murder this week of Jaime Guadalupe González Dominguez, who edited and reported for the community news web site Ojinaga Noticias in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, is the first killing of… More
About the Festival
New York City, April 29-May 5, 2013Writers from across the globe convene in New York to explore bravery in art, politics and personal life. This year's Festival will examine writers' impact… More
Become a Sponsor
Now entering its ninth year, Salman Rushdie’s World Voices Festival has morphed from a festival of literature into a cultural experience. Every March for the past seven years, more… More
Festival Sponsors
SPONSORSPEN World Voices Festival is a proud sponsor of The Standard, East Village, the iconichotel in the heart of the East Village. The Festival is presented in association with… More
PEN Haiti’s Beautiful New House of Literature
Our Freedom Write fellow on his visit to PEN Haiti's extraordinary new Maison Georges Anglade as part of an intercultural exchange supported by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation. The… More
Take Immediate Action for Poet Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami
There is one last hope of having poet Mohammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami's conviction reversed. Take action for him now. More
Let’s Crowdsource Our Own Hollywood Movie About Torture
With controversy still swirling around the film Zero Dark Thirty and its misleading suggestion that torture put the CIA on the trail of Osama bin Laden, it's time to… More