DARE: Press Freedoms and the Case Against Julian Assange, Explained
Assange's arrest and the charge he faces (conspiracy to hack a government computer) generate debate about and divisions over the implications for press... More
Writing from Within: On the 2018 PEN Prison Writing Contest
How do we respect the gravity of the stories we receive? How do we support the voices of those vanished from our society through incarceration? More
Writing for Justice Fellowship Application
PEN America’s $10,000 Writing for Justice Fellowship will commission six writers—emerging or established—to create written works of lasting merit that illuminate critical issues related to mass incarceration and catalyze… More
New York State’s Efforts to Restrict Access to Books in Prisons Shows Troubling Disregard for Right to Read
The State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision needs to promote policies that uphold inmates' access to information and safeguard the right to read. Directive 4911A, a ruinously over-broad… More
Rereading & Rewriting Crime
We can respond to this crisis as a literary community by centering and seriously considering the work that casts prison, prisoners, and the prison state/industry in new light. More
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News organizations are denied camera access to impeachment trial, leaving staff of Republican-controlled Senate dictating what viewers see—and rendering one-dimensional view focused only on the podium. https://nyti.ms/36o5uLm
Meet PEN America's Birmingham chapter leaders Alina Stefanescu (@aliner) & Ashley M. Jones (@ashberry813). The two poets are working with #PENAcrossAmerica to engage and energize Birmingham's writing community. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2RhTu9K.
Thanks to @senatemajldr we are now a nation reliant on govt-controlled TV to filter historic events through a prism that those in power choose. Just a few years ago we who lamented the very same restrictions in China, Iran, etc. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/business/media/impeachment-trial-media-coverage.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share