Events Calendar
Saturday
May 1
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm ETMonday
May 3
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm ETTuesday
May 4
7:00 pm ETWednesday
May 5
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm ETThursday
May 6
7:00 pm ETMonday
May 10
6:00 pm ETMonday
May 17
7:00 pm ETTuesday
May 18
11:00 am – 12:00 pm ETTuesday
May 18
8:00 pm – 9:15 pm ET![On left: Headshots of Nikole Hannah-Jones, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Imbolo Mbue, and Maria Hinojosa. On right: “Power to the People” and list of participant names on top of assorted colorful shapes](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-for-the-people-300x200.png)
The People’s History: Writing the Wrongs
Digital EventWednesday
May 19
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET![Headshots and names of Mariana Enriquez, Grace M. Cho, and Lina Meruane with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-an-invisible-struggle-300x200.png)
The Stories Written into Our Bodies
Digital EventWednesday
May 19
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ETWednesday
May 19
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET![Headshots and names of G. Willow Wilson, Brian Mitchell, Aminder Dhaliwal, and Tochi Onyebuchi with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-graphics-with-guts-300x200.png)
Graphics with Guts
Digital EventWednesday
May 19
7:00 pm ETWednesday
May 19
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm ETWednesday
May 19
8:30 pm – 9:45 pm ETWednesday
May 19
8:30 pm – 9:30 pm ET![Headshots and names of Jhumpa Lahiri and Maaza Mengiste with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-jhumpa-lahiri-300x200.png)
PEN Presents: Jhumpa Lahiri with Maaza Mengiste
Digital EventThursday
May 20
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET![Headshots and names of Mira Jacob, Alison Bechdel, Rivers Solomon, and Torrey Peters with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-the-body-and-the-self-300x200.png)
Transformation as Possibility in Queer Stories
Digital EventThursday
May 20
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET![Headshots and names of Naima Coster, Dantiel W. Moniz, Brian Young, and Kirstin Valdez Quade with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-the-myth-of-innocence-300x200.png)
The Myth of Innocence: Coming of Age in America
Digital EventThursday
May 20
7:00 pm – 8:15 pm ET![Headshots and names of George Saunders, Rivka Galchen, and Matthew Salesses with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-the-masters-tools-300x200.png)
The Master’s Tools: The Art of Teaching Writing
Digital EventThursday
May 20
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm ETThursday
May 20
8:30 pm – 9:30 pm ET![Headshots and names of Kaitlyn Greenidge, Saidiya V. Hartman, Fatima Shaik, and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-mining-history-300x200.png)
Mining History
Digital EventFriday
May 21
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET![Headshots and names of Joy Harjo and Pádraig Ó Tuama with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-joy-harjo-300x200.png)
PEN Presents: Joy Harjo with Pádraig Ó Tuama
Digital EventFriday
May 21
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ETFriday
May 21
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm ET![Colorful assorted shapes and flower in background; on top: “Verses on the Vanguard: Russian Poetry Today”](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-verses-on-the-vanguard-300x200.png)
Verses on the Vanguard: Russian Poetry Today
Digital EventFriday
May 21
5:00 pm – 6:15 pm ET![A photo of the performance of the show Blindness, with the title on the bottom and multicolor ripped paper on the top and bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-blindness-300x200.png)
Blindness
Daryl Roth TheatreFriday
May 21
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET![Headshots and names of Hala Alyan, Jay Molina, Brian Lindstrom, and Felice Belle with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-world-voices-festival-narrative-4-presents-300x200.png)
Narrative 4 Presents: The Power of Story Exchanges
Digital EventFriday
May 21
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET![Headshots and names of Threa Almontaser, Edwidge Danticat, John Freeman, and Yusef Komunyakaa with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-on-revolutionary-love-and-poetic-resistance-300x200.png)
On Revolutionary Love and Poetic Resistance
Digital EventFriday
May 21
8:30 pm – 9:30 pm ET![Headshots and names of Maytha Alhassen, Randa Jarrar, and Mortada Gzar with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-love-yourself-first-300x200.png)
The Art of the Memoir
Digital EventSaturday
May 22
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET![Headshots and names of Danielle Geller, Jamie Figueroa, Maisy Card, and Linda Rui Feng with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-writing-our-way-out-300x200.png)
Writing Our Way Out: Reflections on Inheritance
Digital EventSaturday
May 22
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET![Headshots and names of Robert Jones Jr., Kiese Laymon, and Brian Broome with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-black-abundance-radical-love-300x200.png)
Black Abundance and Radical Love
Digital EventSaturday
May 22
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm ET![Multicolored ripped paper in background; on top: “Dreaming Out Loud Annual Public Reading: Headlined by Danyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe”](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-world-voices-festival-dreaming-out-loud-annual-public-reading-300x200.png)
DREAMing Out Loud Annual Public Reading
Digital EventSaturday
May 22
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm ET![On left: Headshots of Richard Flanagan and Alexandra Schwartz. On right: “Power to the People” and “Richard Flanagan with Alexandra Schwartz” name on top of assorted colorful shapes](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-world-voices-festival-arthur-miller-lecture-richard-flanagan-300x200.png)
Arthur Miller Lecture: Richard Flanagan
Digital EventSunday
May 23
11:00 am – 12:30 pm ETMonday – Saturday
May 24 – May 29
5:00 pm ET![Speaker headshots on black background and the words "APA Heritage Month: Resistance & Community" on teal text box](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/apa-heritage-month-event-series-graphic-300x200.png)
APA Heritage Month: Resistance & Community
Digital EventTuesday
May 25
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm ETWednesday
May 26
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm ETThursday
May 27
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ETSunday
May 30
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm CT![Najah Amatullah Hylton, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Eder J. Williams McKnight, Leroy Myers, and Written Quincey headshots](https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Tulsa-Race-Massacre-Commemorative-Reading-300x200.png)