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Todd Shirts

Todd Parr for PEN America

Books are for everyone! Show your support for stories with this exclusive design by author/illustrator Todd Parr. Also available in an infant onesie for the little book lovers in your life!

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Mike Curato for PEN America

Fight book bans and support PEN America with this exclusive design by author Mike Curato. Also available in black.

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Mike Curato Tote Bag

Exclusive design also available on a canvas tote!

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Art Spiegelman for PEN America

Fight book bans and support PEN America with this design by author Art Spiegelman.

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Lingua Franca Banned Books

Lingua Franca x PEN America

PEN America has partnered with Lingua Franca—a line of sustainably-sourced, fair-trade, luxury cashmere sweaters, all hand-stitched by women in New York City—for a series of sweaters emblazoned with phrases that reflect the work PEN America does to defend the freedom to write. 

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Banned Books Puzzle

Banned Book Puzzle

Read and resist with this 500-piece puzzle featuring books that have been banned in the US and abroad. The Banned Books Puzzle features art from Jane Mount, the brilliant brain behind the Bibliophile series. With over 65 banned books colorfully illustrated, this puzzle comes with a handy reading checklist and information from PEN America on how to fight book bans, so you can be inspired to resist the pushback and read them all for yourself. 

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Bonfire Tshirt Grey 450x350

Premium Unisex T

Stay cool in this premium T, flaunting your support for the freedom to write.

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Premium PEN America Book Tote (Logo)

Stash your latest reads in this sturdy carry-all tote—while also featuring your support for PEN America.

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Bonfire Literature Knows No Frontiers Tote Bag 450x350

Premium PEN America Book Tote (Books Are Boundless)

This limited-edition tote features a quote from the PEN charter, the binding vision that PEN America follows each and every day.

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Variations on an Undisclosed Location: 2022 Prison Writing Awards Anthology

Thank the Bloom: 2023 PEN Prison Writing Awards Anthology is a testament to the power of community collaboration. Inspired by past lovers, current partnerships, old family dynamics, and steadfast friendships that both transcend prison walls and persevere within them, this anthology includes poetry, memoir, essay, fiction, and drama. And yet these themes defy genre, turning this anthology into something else entirely: a deeper exploration of self, of power, of institutionalized racism, of systemic isolation, and of the beauty that can be found in a garden bed.

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Dreaming Out Loud: Voices of Undocumented Students

What do you miss the most about the community you left behind? What are your hopes and dreams for the future? How does your experience compare to your expectations? These are just a handful of the questions explored in DREAMing Out Loud: An Anthology of Migrant Writing. This anthology features original writing from DREAMing Out Loud, PEN America’s tuition-free writing workshop series for young undocumented and immigrant authors in New York City. 

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Dau 2023

Best Debut Short Stories 2023: The PEN America Dau Prize

Best Debut Short Stories is an annual celebration of the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these twelve stories are the 2023 winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes each writer’s outstanding debut in a literary magazine. The stories in this anthology encompass fraught family gatherings, death, inheritance, reproduction and birth, translation, secrets, and betrayals. This year’s stories were selected by judges Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz. 

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The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison

A road map for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars—and shared beyond the walls—that draws on the unique insights of more than fifty contributors, most themselves justice-involved, to offer advice, inspiration and resources. 

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Shop PEN America's Reading Lists

Another great way to show your support for PEN America is by shopping from our Bookshop collections. Bookshop is an online book retailer which financially supports independent bookstores with each purchase. Browse PEN America's recommended reading lists!

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