The PEN Pod: On the Importance of Hopeful Thinking and Magic with Chip Rolley
“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
Highlights from the 15th Annual World Voices Festival
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
Open Secrets at the 15th Annual World Voices Festival
This year’s World Voices Festival explores the profoundly complex and challenging issues involved in this dissolution of the public and the private. More
Chip Rolley Assumes PEN World Voices Festival Leadership Amid Deepening Challenges to Free Expression
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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