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Chip Rolley

The PEN Pod: On the Importance of Hopeful Thinking and Magic with Chip Rolley

InterviewMarch 23, 2020

“Look at the program that we put together. Look at the writers who were there. Search out their books; their books can still be bought.” More

Arundhati Roy and Siddartha Deb at the 2019 World Voices Festival

Highlights from the 15th Annual World Voices Festival

PEN World Voices

This Festival explored the profoundly complex and challenging issues involved in this dissolution of the public and the private in more than 70 events. More

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Open Secrets at the 15th Annual World Voices Festival

PEN World Voices
By: Chip Rolley | April 17, 2019

This year’s World Voices Festival explores the profoundly complex and challenging issues involved in this dissolution of the public and the private. More

Claire Messud, Rivka Galchen, and Paul Gargagliano at the 2018 AWP conference

PEN America at the 2018 AWP Conference and Bookfair

Thursday, March 8, 2018 – Saturday, March 10, 2018 | 10:30 am – 10:00 pm
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Turn It On: Nightingale, Not the Only Voice

Friday, October 13, 2017 | 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
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Turn It On: China on Film, 2000–2017

Friday, October 13, 2017 – Saturday, December 16, 2017 | 6:30 pm – 3:00 pm
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Chip Rolley Assumes PEN World Voices Festival Leadership Amid Deepening Challenges to Free Expression

Press ReleaseMay 17, 2017

Chip Rolley, former Artistic Director of the Sydney Writers' Festival, has joined PEN America as the new Director of the PEN World Voices Festival and Senior Director of Literary… More

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#Bangladesh: Journalist Shamsuzzaman Shams charged over story about rising food prices

According to a local thinktank, nearly 3,000 people have been charged under the Digital Security Act since it was enacted in 2018, including about 280 journalists https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/30/bangladesh-journalist-charged-over-story-about-rising-food-prices?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Texas Observer will continue publishing after staff crowdfunds more than $300,000.

The crusading liberal magazine had planned to lay off its staff after its nonprofit board voted to shut down. But it reversed course on Wednesday.
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Great write-up by @evadcoleman of @UnitedMegaCare Ministry In Civics (MIC) launch last Saturday. We're honored to partner with you all! @ldallen @dfw_abj @BlackVotersMtr @RYHTexas @TPHDallas
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