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2017 PEN/PHYLLIS NAYLOR WORKING WRITER FELLOWSHIP
Winner Phillippe Diederich, Finding Home at the End of the World The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship honors an author of children's or young-adult fiction. It has been developed to help writers… More
2017 PEN/NORA MAGID AWARD FOR EDITING
Winner Michael Archer and Joel Whitney for Guernica The PEN/Nora Magid Award honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to the… More
Thousands in New York Pledge to Defend Press and Freedom of Speech Against Trump Administration
As Donald Trump and his team continue to insult journalists and disparage critical voices, more than 2,000 artists, writers, and readers gathered with PEN America today on the steps… More
No More Literary Suicides: Challenging Intolerance Towards Literary Expression in India
Indian writer Salil Tripathi once said that free speech in India was threatened by “a combination of state passivity, antiquated laws, and the existence of ‘the right to feel… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
More than 44 Democratic lawmakers join boycott of inauguration to protest the President-elect's insults toward civil rights leader John Lewis. PEN America amasses 2500 for flagship #WritersResist protest, and… More
The PEN Ten with Jonathan Baumbach
One writes to discover a truth that is truer than what existed before. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Justice Dept. Inspector General launches probe into FBI's handling of Clinton emails, prompting the President-elect to slam his former rival on Twitter as "guilty as hell." Secretary of State-designate… More
Next World Tarot
A visual spectacle of both the battle cry and the reconnection between outcasts and their criminalized identities. More
#Snowflake
I remember that horrible feeling on election night, when it became clear things were rapidly going south. More
Weekend After
I grew up in the deep south during segregation. It was the worst racism and discrimination. But we fought and we didn’t let ourselves become hopeless. More
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