DARE: White House Bans Four Journalists from Covering Trump-Kim Dinner Because of Shouted Questions
The White House restricts some members of the press access to President Trump’s summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Twitter permanently suspends far... More
“I Use Fiction as a Way to Find Truth”: A PEN Ten Interview with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
"I think writers can continue to speak truth to power. I think writers can advocate for the most vulnerable and make their pain heard." More
Pushing Past Constraints: A Reading List
A reading list compiled in anticipation of February’s PEN Out Loud event with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Isaac Fitzgerald to discuss Friday Black. More
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Author Laurie @halseanderson joins @KALW to discuss the conservative groups & dark money behind the movement to ban books—and what it will take to push back against the nationwide effort to censor topics in our classrooms. #StudentsRights #FreeTheBooks https://www.kalw.org/show/your-call/2022-12-06/the-conservative-groups-dark-money-behind-the-movement-to-ban-books
Proud to publish a letter by @pen_belarus member and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski.
Read and take action to #FreeAlesBialiatski and all those unjustly imprisoned in #Belarus
https://pen-international.org/news/belarus-free-writer-and-human-rights-defender-ales-bialiatski
Today a Superior Court Judge in Bridgeport, Connecticut granted a motion to reduce my client’s 7-year prison sentence for robbery by two years. My client, who among other things won a @PENamerica national writing competition while in prison, earned this chance to come home sooner