The PEN Pod: On Race, Place, and Belonging with Sejal Shah
“I’m certainly thinking about kinship. . . What do we owe our neighbors and fellow humans. . . for whom to be alive is a risk?” More
Across the Asian Americas: An APA Heritage Month Reading List
This reading list, curated by Kaya Press author Rajiv Mohabir, invites us to reexamine “Asian American” as a complicated category. More
The PEN Pod: Looking to the Past to Imagine a Better Future with Helen Zia
“Every Asian American in the United States and people with Asian faces all over the world are experiencing this global pandemic of racism and hatred.” More
Epic Novels, Sweeping Sagas: An APA Heritage Month Reading List
This reading list comes to us from Asian American Writers Workshop Executive Director Jafreen Uddin, and is a continuation of our efforts to amplify Asian American voices in literature. More
Asian American Voices: An Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Reading List
In response to violence directed at individuals of Asian descent, we’ve sought to help amplify contemporary Asian American voices in this reading list. More
Alert Us
Are you an artist at risk or know someone who is?
PEN America On 
Is a reconciliation with the Trump era possible? Can we reckon with the past while moving forward? Register now to hear from @mashagessen @ayadakhtar Jill Lepore @CharlesMBlow @Peggynoonannyc and Omar G. Encarnación. Moderated by @SuzanneNossel. https://bit.ly/3p2S9C7
For the first 100 days of the new @WhiteHouse @POTUS @VP admin, we @PENamerica put together 8 policy steps the admin can take. One is creation of a task force to fight disinfo, increase media literacy, study racialized efforts to sow division thru hate online. Let’s get to work. https://twitter.com/attorneynora/status/1351582487667904512