A Letter from Our CEO: How We’re Reinventing PEN America
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The PEN Pod: On the Importance of Hopeful Thinking and Magic with Chip Rolley
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Announcing the Cancelation of the 2020 World Voices Festival
We are writing to let you know that we’ve made the hard decision to cancel the 2020 PEN America World Voices Festival. More
PEN America Convenes Writers of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, and More for PEN America World Voices Festival 2020: These Truths
***VISIT THE PEN AMERICA WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL WEBSITE FOR FULL DETAILS AND TICKETS*** PEN America Today Announces Highlights of the 16th Edition of the United States’ Leading International Literary Festival,… More
2020 PEN World Voices Festival – Presale – Words and Music by Zadie Smith, Tara Westover, Suleika Jaouad, and Jon Batiste at NYU Skirball Center
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2020 PEN World Voices Festival – Presale – Jeremy O. Harris & Lynn Nottage in Conversation at the Sharp Theatre, Symphony Space
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2020 PEN World Voices Festival – Presale – The Last Archive with Jill Lepore at the Thalia Theatre, Symphony Space
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2020 PEN World Voices Festival – Presale – Margaret Atwood, Roxane Gay, and Jia Tolentino with Rebecca Traister at Town Hall
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Let Florida Read!
Join us Tuesday in Tally as we celebrate our constitutional right to read alongside amazing authors, students, educators of @FloridaMediaEd, @PENamerica, @diversebooks, @splcenter, @DemocracyFwd, & @EveryLibrary.
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