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Children’s/Young Adult Book Authors Committee
The Children’s/Young Adult Book Authors Committee supports writers and librarians whose books have been banned or challenged. We are eager to receive information about these actions so that we… More
PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers
“PEN America is an entrancing magazine: when it arrives, I fall helplessly into it, and am lost to everything else.”—Cynthia OzickPEN’s semi-annual literary journal publishes fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism,… More
Writing Institute
The Writing Institute was created in 2004 to address the fact that many young writers and artists in New York City lack access to professional writing instruction beyond the… More
Microscripts
A marvelously handsome young ethicist spoke enlighteningly with the populace, calling on it with ingenious eloquence to turn its back on schnapps once and for all. More
Hailemariam Desalegn: Free Ethiopia’s Besieged Press
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, whose assault on press freedom led to the jailing of a number of journalists—and the exodus of many more—died last week in Brussels. Now… More
Pussy Riot Band Members Jailed For Two Years
PEN International is shocked by the two-year prison sentence handed down today to the three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot—Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samusevich—under… More
QA: Büşra Ersanli freed trial
From the day that the prosecutor ruled my detention, until now, everything has been upside down. I am speechless and now going back to Silivri [prison] to pack my… More
PEN Welcomes Leahy Statement on Press Freedom Violations in Ethiopia
New York City, May 17, 2012—Senator Patrick Leahy yesterday made a strong statement in favor of press freedom in Ethiopia, where the 2012 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award… More