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Twelve PEN America 2023 Emerging Voices Fellows Selected from Largest Applicant Pool Ever for Third Consecutive Year

Press ReleaseJune 14, 2023

Jared Jackson, director, Literary Programs and Emerging Voices, said: “This year’s amazing cohort of fellows explore issues and ideas including disability, acceptance, immigration, resistance, sex, gender, colonialism, industrialization, surveillance,… More

PEN America Town Hall Dec. 13 in NYC: How Can the Publishing Industry be Challenged and Transformed to Represent More Diverse Authors, Readers and Books?

Press ReleaseDecember 6, 2022

PEN America President Ayad Akhtar will give opening remarks. Writer, editor, and publisher Roxane Gay, author Min Jin Lee, publishing veteran Erroll McDonald, and writer and editor Chris Beha… More

Clockwise from top left: Min Jin Lee, Erroll McDonald, Roxane Gay, Suzanne Nossel, Chris Beha, and Ayad Akhtar with the words, "PEN America Town Hall: Do Publishers Have a Moral Obligation to Diversify American Literature?"

Ayad Akhtar, Roxane Gay, Min Jin Lee, Erroll McDonald, with PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel

PEN AmericaTuesday, December 13, 2022 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm ET
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Diversity In Book Publishing Isn’t Just About Writers — Marketing Matters, Too

By: Jean Ho | August 9, 2016

The 2016 shortlist for the prestigious PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction, which comes with a covetable $25,000 award, was filled entirely by writers of color. More

Truth and Solutions: Roundtable on Equity in Children’s and Young Adult Book Publishing

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By: Hafizah Geter | March 3, 2016

Part of The PEN Equity Project, Fatima Shaik, Cheryl Klein, Wade Hudson, Daniel José Older, Robie Harris, and Alvina Ling discuss equity in children's and young adult publishing. More

Reimagining the Mainstream with Greg Pardlo

PoetryNovember 10, 2015

Gregory Pardlo reads three poems as part of the event "Reimagining The Mainstream: A Celebration Of 2015 Pulitzer Prize-Winner Gregory Pardlo." More

PEN Podcast: Reimagining the Mainstream Panel Discussion

ConversationNovember 5, 2015

Gregory Pardlo, Willie Perdomo, Saeed Jones, and Cate Marvin talk about equity in publishing and how to diversify mainstream literary culture in today's #PENpodcast. More

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