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Save the Dates: 2014 PEN Literary Awards
Longlists announced: May 6 / Shortlists announced: June 18 / Winners announced: July 30 / Awards Ceremony: September 29 More
Two Poems by Todd Colby
. . .The night is fast approaching, / an almost liquid darkness seeps in over the highway / and invades the room I'm in, until electric light / simmers… More
Letter to Secretary of State John Kerry: Speak Up for Writers in Ethiopia
On April 25 and 26, Ethiopian authorities arrested six prominent bloggers and three freelance journalists on the eve of Secretary of State John Kerry's arrival in Addis Ababa to… More
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending… More
Online Art Auction Benefit for PEN Haiti
PEN has joined forces with online auction site Paddle8 for a unique benefit auction to support PEN Haiti. Artist Sébastien Jean, whose work has been shown at the Venice… More
A Freedom to Write Retrospective: Eskinder Nega
Each week leading up to the PEN Literary Gala and the conferrence of the 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award on May 5, PEN will feature the story… More
Talking to Ourselves
. . . in short, advice isn’t much use, if you disagree with it you don’t listen, and if you already agree you don’t need it, never trust advice,… More
Recommended Events
AN EVENING WITH JOSEF WINKLERTuesday, April 29 at 7:30pmAustrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022Join acclaimed Austrian author Josef Winkler and special guests at this unique… More