PEN America Membership is the perfect gift for the writer, reader, or free speech champion in your life. Our Members stand up to protect the right to free expression in the United States and around the globe. Members are directly linked with an international community of authors, journalists, editors, translators, dramatists, screenwriters, other established and emerging writing professionals, and their supporters who promote, defend, and celebrate the freedom to write.

PEN America Member benefits include:

An exclusive community of writers and readers on a Members-only Facebook group, where members can post news about publications and events, and engage with others around free expression issues and the writing life,

Discounts to PEN America’s year-round public programs, including the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, the PEN America Gala, the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony, and more,

Select invitations to exclusive Members-only receptions,

Participation in advocacy for writers and journalists at risk worldwide.

PEN America works to ensure that people everywhere have the freedom to create literature, to convey information and ideas, to express their views, and to access the views, ideas, and literatures of others. Stand with writers, journalists, artists, and educators across America.

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