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An Excerpt from The Blind Writer: Stories and a Novella
We are delighted to announce that Sameer Pandya has been selected as our 2017 PEN/Civitella Fellow. Through a generous partnership with the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, an artist residency located… More
Free Expression Digest: Thurs. Sep. 8
Journalists in Kenya protest attacks, Sri Lanka to launch new probe into editor's murder, and more. More
Israel: Charges Against Poet Dareen Tatour Should be Dropped
NEW YORK—PEN America calls on Israeli authorities to drop the charges against the poet Dareen Tatour, a Palestinian citizen of Israel whose trial on charges of incitement to violence… More
Calling the Water
perhaps the limits of my erotic imagination are boring and predictable // but I will die grateful // for the adolescence I got to have offline // that pines… More
Free Expression Digest: Wed. Sep. 7
Ferguson activist found dead, reporter charged in Venezuela after protest, journalist punished for Chechnya reporting, and more. More
The Principal of the Thing
"Covertly removing books is a way of circumventing any conversation about why you are removing these books from libraries and, in effect, schools, necessary if you were to officially… More
Open Letter: President Obama, Don’t Forget Free Speech in Turkey
PEN America joins with other concerned groups focused on free expression in publishing in sending an open letter to President Obama on the eve of Obama's meeting with Turkish… More
September Featured Cases: Turkey’s Ongoing Assault on Free Expression
This September, PEN America is featuring three cases that are illustrative of the breadth of individuals caught up in the expansive web of the purge in Turkey. More
Things That Go Bump in the Night
In this installment of The Illustrated PEN, artist and writer MariNaomi recalls a traumatic encounter she suffered as a teen, and describes how, years later, she still grapples with… More
You Surround Me
I’m not the same as myself // I’m not the opposite of myself // I’m downstream from the values of some ancient warrior class that got to decide what… More
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