Events Calendar
Thursday
May 2
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm![World Press Freedom Day 2019 Banner](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wpfd-2019-landing-page-featured-image-300x180.jpeg)
World Press Freedom Day: Atlanta, GA
The Carter CenterThursday
May 2
6:00 pm – 8:00 pmThursday
May 2
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm![headshots of paneilsts at the Negotiating Difficult Conversations event](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/negotiating-difficult-conversations-bmcc-featured-image-300x170.png)
Negotiating Difficult Conversations
Borough Manhattan Community CollegeThursday
May 2
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm![World Press Freedom Day 2019 Banner](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wpfd-2019-landing-page-featured-image-300x180.jpeg)
World Press Freedom Day: Dallas, TX
The Wild DetectivesFriday
May 3
4:30 pm – 6:30 pmSaturday
May 4
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm![Writing In Exile A Conversation With Jennifer Egan And Aleksandar Hemon Photo](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Writing-in-Exile_-A-Conversation-with-Jennifer-Egan-and-Aleksandar-Hemon_Updated-300x170.png)
Writing in Exile: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan and Aleksandar Hemon
Venue SIX10, Feinberg TheaterSaturday
May 4
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm![World Press Freedom Day: Chicago, IL with Jennifer Egan Photo](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/WORLD-PRESS-FREEDOM-DAY_-CHICAGO-IL-with-Jennifer-Egan_-300x170.png)
World Press Freedom Day: Chicago, IL
American Writers MuseumSunday
May 5
11:00 am – 1:00 pm![Little Haiti Book Festival Event Image](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ON-THE-PAGE-AND-ON-THE-STAGE-STORYTELLING-WORKSHOP-300x170.png)
On the Page and On the Stage (Storytelling Workshop)
Little Haiti Cultural Center, Community RoomMonday
May 6
6:30 pmWednesday
May 8
12:00 am![graphic for Exposure: On Writing in Prison](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/PWP-WVF-Twitter-Aja-Jon-Christopher-300x150.png)
Exposure: on writing in prison
The People’s ForumWednesday
May 8
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm![World Press Freedom Day 2019 Banner](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wpfd-2019-landing-page-featured-image-300x180.jpeg)
World Press Freedom Day: Austin, TX
CookBook CafeThursday
May 9
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm![World Press Freedom Day 2019 Banner](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wpfd-2019-landing-page-featured-image-300x180.jpeg)
World Press Freedom Day: Detroit, MI
Pages BookshopSaturday
May 11
1:00 pm – 3:00 pmSaturday
May 11
3:00 pm – 5:00 pmSaturday
May 11
4:15 pm – 5:15 pmMonday
May 13
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm![World Voices Festival image for the Women's Work event](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-festival-womens-work-featured-image-300x200.png)
Women’s Work
LAXARTMonday
May 13
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm![Abu Shadi Illustration By Dan Rowell For 90 Days 90 Voices And The Chicago Reader](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Abu-Shadi_Illustration-by-Dan-Rowell-for-90-Days-90-Voices-and-the-Chicago-Reader-300x150.jpeg)
MENA: Telling the Stories of Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Evanston Public LibraryTuesday
May 14
7:00 pmTuesday
May 14
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm![World Voices Festival event Seeing Beyond Satire and stereotypes](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-wvf-Seeing-Beyond-Satire-featured-image-300x200.jpg)
Seeing Beyond Satire and Stereotypes
USC Pacific Asia MuseumTuesday
May 14
7:30 pmThursday – Sunday
May 16 – May 19
5:30 pm – 4:00 pm![2019 Greensboro Bound LIterary Festival Landing Page Header](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Greensboro-Bound-LIterary-Festival-Landing-Page-Header-300x170.png)
PEN America at the 2019 Greensboro Bound Literary Festival
Greensboro, North CarolinaFriday
May 17
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm![Greensboro Bound: Strikes And Songs Activism In Appalachia Event Image](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Greensboro-Bound_-Strikes-and-Songs_-Activism-in-Appalachia-Updated-300x170.png)
Strikes and Songs: Activism in Appalachia
Van Dyke Performance Space – Greensboro Cultural CenterSaturday
May 18
10:00 am – 12:00 pm![Greensboro Bound Appalachian Reckoning Event Image](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Greensboro-Bound_-Appalachian-Reckoning-300x170.png)
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
Greensboro History Museum AuditoriumSaturday
May 18
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm![Greensboro Bound New Voices In Appalachian Writing Event Image](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Greensboro-Bound_-New-Voices-in-Appalachian-Writing-Updated-300x170.png)
New Voices in Appalachian Writing
Greensboro History Museum AuditoriumSaturday
May 18
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm![Greensboro Bound Environment And Place In Contemporary Appalachia Event Photo](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Greensboro-Bound_-Environment-and-Place-in-Contemporary-Appalachia-300x170.png)
Environment And Place In Contemporary Appalachia
Greensboro History Museum AuditoriumSunday
May 19
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm![2019 Festival Open Secrets Workshop event image](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-festival-open-secrets-workshop-featured-image-300x200.png)
Open Secrets: A Workshop
New School of Cooking, PasadenaWednesday – Sunday
May 29 – June 2
12:00 pm – 5:00 pmWednesday
May 29
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm![The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/May-LA-Book-Club-arundhati-roy-300x170.png)
Los Angeles Book Club: The God of Small Things
Blu Elefant CafeThursday
May 30
4:15 pm – 5:00 pmThursday
May 30
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm![Edward Bunker event Flyer](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Edward-Bunker-Flyer-3-300x185.png)
Celebrating Edward Bunker
The Road on LankershimFriday
May 31
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm![PEN America at the Dallas Festival of Books and Ideas Event Image](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/PEN-America-at-the-Dallas-Festival-of-Books-and-Ideas-Updated-300x170.png)