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Paula Vogel on Cancellation of ‘Indecent’

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Paula Vogel talks to PEN America about the cancelation of her play, Indecent, at a Florida high school. More

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PEN America paid tribute on Monday to novelist Russell Banks, a longtime advocate of free expression and member of PEN America, who died over the weekend at age 82. More

The PEN Ten: 12 Days of Writing Advice

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PEN America has been in conversation with authors, poets, and other artists from its inception. This holiday season, we are sharing 12 pieces of writing advice. More

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Elizabeth Strout on Writing: ‘Just keep going.’

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Elizabeth Strout talks to PEN America about Lucy by the Sea and life as a writer. 'It’s never easy. But sometimes it is fun...' More

PEN America Opens Submissions for 2023 Literary Awards

Press ReleaseJune 1, 2022

(NEW YORK)-- The literary and free expression organization PEN America today announced the opening of submissions and nominations for the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards. Submissions for book awards… More

PEN America 2022 Emerging Voices Fellows Selected from Largest Applicant Pool Ever

Press ReleaseMay 31, 2022

Jared Jackson of PEN America said: “This is a stunning cohort of Emerging Voices Fellows, whose work reveals truths about subjects from Black feminism, displacement, and Asian-American identity to… More

PEN America Austin Presents “Who is Afraid of Black Books?”: A Conversation and Reading with Authors ZZ Packer and Danez Smith

Press ReleaseMay 18, 2022

Moderated by Jennifer M. Wilks and featuring contributors to The 1619 Project, acclaimed author ZZ Packer and award-winning poet Danez Smith, this conversation will reflect on the recent book… More

2022 PEN World Voices Festival Will Bring International Writers and Thinkers to NYC May 11-14 For a Unique Intellectual Assemblage Amid Conflict

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As powers across the world ride roughshod over facts in order to legitimize aggression and work their international will, PEN World Voices will aim to elevate truth and narrative… More

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Acclaimed Author Zadie Smith Will Receive the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award May 23

Press ReleaseMarch 11, 2022

Smith’s fiction meticulously charts characters’ social surroundings and entangled if disparate existences, offering deep insight into their circumstances. She questions and pushes against imposed boundaries of race and class,… More

PEN America Mourns the Death of Edmund Keeley, President from 1992-1994

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“Through his work as a translator into English of the major Greek poets of the modern era, Edmund Keely was responsible for many people’s first encounters with their brilliance… More

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