Statement by PEN America on the Resignation of Trustee Masha Gessen
PEN America regrets the situation that ensued from the error. As we conveyed to the writers from Ukraine, it is elemental to PEN as advocates of free expression that… More
2023 PEN America World Voices Festival: Day 4 Highlights
PEN America's 2023 World Voices Festival wrapped up on Saturday with a blow-out closing night event worthy of four days of poignant conversations exploring the vitality of the written… More
2023 PEN America World Voices Festival: Day 3 Highlights
The third day of PEN America's 2023 World Voices Festival on Friday featured food, feminism, and deep dives on history in 12 events packed with lovers of literature. More
2023 PEN America World Voices Festival: Day 2 Highlights
Ta-Nehisi Coates delivered the keynote Arthur Miller Freedom to Write lecture on Thursday at PEN America's 2023 World Voices Festival. More
2023 PEN America World Voices Festival: Day 1 Highlights
PEN America's 2023 World Voices Festival kicked off its celebration of international literature featuring more than 100 writers from 27 countries with blockbuster opening night events. More
World Voices Festival: Marlon James
At the 2023 PEN America World Voices Festival, Marlon James is hosting a fireside chat with Nigerian-British writer Ben Okri, followed by a panel on the second novel with… More
World Voices Festival: Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh will discuss the challenge of keeping up with online discourse at her opening night panel at PEN America’s World Voices Festival, “Ottessa Moshfegh Presents: Why Write?" More
Ta-Nehisi Coates at the World Voices Festival
Ta-Nehisi Coates hopes to contextualize the flurry of censorship across the United States in his Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture on May 11 at PEN America’s World Voices… More
PEN America’s World Voices Festival Presents Conversations in Los Angeles with Great Writers, Thinkers, Artists, and Activists May 10-13
Allison Lee, PEN America’s Los Angeles managing director, said: “Bringing writers and creatives together with perspectives from across the globe makes this annual literary festival uniquely inspiring and aligned… More
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