Twelve PEN America 2023 Emerging Voices Fellows Selected from Largest Applicant Pool Ever for Third Consecutive Year
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 Opens Submissions for 2023 Literary Awards
(NEW YORK)-- The literary and free expression organization PEN America today announced the opening of submissions and nominations for the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards. Submissions for book awards… More
We Will Emerge
We Will Emerge is a collaborative project bringing together 111 writers, activists, academics, poets, and public servants to imagine a blueprint for a post-COVID America. More
We Will Emerge: Awareness
These brief essays for “We Will Emerge” envision a society more compassionate and more aware of the experiences that both separate and unite us. More
We Will Emerge: Community and Unity
These submissions for “We Will Emerge” talk of community and unity, expressing a belief that we are all far more deeply connected than we know. More
We Will Emerge: Gratitude and Empathy
This section of “We Will Emerge” contends with the theme of gratitude and empathy, and contributors include Sophia Bush, Hasan Minhaj, and Peter Sagal. More
We Will Emerge
We Will Emerge is a collaborative project bringing together 111 writers, activists, academics, poets, and public servants to imagine a blueprint for a post-COVID America. More
We Will Emerge: Action
These submissions for “We Will Emerge” center on action and look forward to a more politically engaged and equitable society. More
We Will Emerge: Liberation
These contributions for “We Will Emerge” contend with the notion of liberation and imagine a world freed from the shackles of systemic racism and injustice. More