Introducing The Freewrite Project Zine
PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program presents a zine featuring work from creative writing workshop participants in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The workshops were framed around curriculum developed… More
The PEN Pod: Learning from Russian Short Fiction with George Saunders
“What happens in a short story is that somebody concentrates for a long period of time to make their story as truthful and empathetic as possible, and then they… More
A Symposium on Translating the Literature of the Middle East
On Wednesday, March 28, the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College will present a symposium on the literature of the Middle East and those… More
Summer Writing Institute: A Literary Expedition
As part of PEN’s Summer Writing Institute, Readers & Writers Director Stacy Leigh and instructor Geof Bankowski took their workshop of high school students to lower Manhattan on a… More
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