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PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award Winners
2000 Marlene Reed Wetzel for ''A Map of Tripoli, 1967" Runners-up: Thomas Cockrell Holiday Reinhorn Paul Rusconi More
The Tragic Reality of Human Existence
This piece was read by Boris Akunin at the opening night of the 2016 PEN World Voices Festival, where authors shared their philosophical inquiries into society’s need for mind-altering… More
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Winners
(This award is offered every other year in even-numbered years.)1994 Jane Kenyon1996 Franz Wright1998 C. K. Williams2000 Heather McHugh2002 Frederick Seidel2004 Robert Pinsky2006 Linda Gregg2008 Kimiko Hahn2010 Marilyn Hacker2012… More
PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize Winners
2015 Adriana E. Ramírez for "Dead Boys"Finalists:Melissa Petro for “Unbecoming”Liz Quinn for “The Forgotten Midwives of Guatemala”Krystal Sital for “Incantations”2016 Jean Guerrero for "Crux"Finalists:Victoria Blanco for “Visions of Oasis”Laurel… More
PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature Winners
2010 Esteban Bedoya, El Apocalipsis según Benedicto2012 Delfina Acosta, Versos de amor y de locura (Editorial Servilibro)2014 Raúl Silva Alonso, En Tacumbu (El Lector)2016 Nathalia María Echauri Castagnino, Doce… More
Three Men I Met (Untrue Stories Based on Real Facts; a Literary Exercise)
This piece was read by Lydia Cacho at the opening night of the 2016 PEN World Voices Festival, where authors shared their philosophical inquiries into society’s need for mind-altering… More
PEN Haiti’s Potential Rising
As the PEN Haiti Fellow appointed by the PEN America Development Fellowship Program, Fabrice Guerrier has been working to optimize, professionalize, and bring innovation to PEN Haiti’s infrastructure in… More
Summer 2016 Editorial Literary Magazine (Glossolalia) Internship
PEN America is seeking qualified and motivated editorial interns who will work with the series editor and editor/managing editor in a fun and entrepreneurial environment, learning the basics of… More
President Obama: Press for Release of Jailed Poet Ashraf Fayadh
We, the undersigned free expression and human rights organizations, call on you, President Obama, to push for the release of poet Ashraf Fayadh during your visit to Saudi Arabia… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Thurs., April 7
China ramps up Panama Papers censorship after leaders' relatives named, Student activist hacked, shot to death in Bangladesh, German prosecutors probe comic's poem about Turkey president. More
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