PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression The Week of December 4
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. More
Artists and Authors to Join PEN America on 12/6 in Brooklyn to Celebrate its 2023 Anthology of Stories, Poems, Plays and Non-Fiction by Incarcerated Writers
Break Out is an annual community-centered staging of compelling cross-genre literary works by currently incarcerated writers. The selection of readings will be performed by a dynamic cadre of presenters.… More
Break Out: PEN America Celebrates Prison Writing Awards and New Anthology
PEN America celebrated the winners of its 2022 Prison Writing Awards as it launched the new anthology, Variations on an Undisclosed Location, with an event at the Brooklyn Public… More
Works of Justice: A Brief Interview with Poet Edward Ji
"Writing is not 'resistance.' This places counts me eight times a day, but does not know I’m here. Like winter, life does not care if you die. It is… More
Works of Justice: An Interview with Punk-Writer Sean Thomas Dunne
"Cathartic release is a byproduct of my desire to say something that matters to you." More
Works of Justice: An Interview with Poet Louise K Waakaa’igan
"It is through and with my writing that I get to be who I am, a multifaceted Anishinaabekwe with a voice and a story to share." More