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PEN America Prison Writing

Visiting the Blues, 2021 Prison Writing Awards AnthologyBrooklyn Public Library Justice InitiativesWednesday, December 15, 2021 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm ET
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[VIRTUAL] Free Speech Live!: Journalism and the Freedom to Report in Latin America

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm ET
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2021 Community Partnership Programs

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In collaboration with four community partner organizations, we offer media literacy workshops to counter vaccine misinformation. More

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Ayad Akhtar’s Remarks at the 2021 PEN America Literary Gala

Remarks
By: Ayad Akhtar | October 6, 2021

“Reading, of course, is an individual act, but a culture that fosters reading and one that supports writers, invariably compels us to presence, to protest, to celebration.” More

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The PEN Pod: On Trauma, Identity, and Reinvention with Dan O’Brien

InterviewSeptember 24, 2021

“It’s so important to me to push through the taboo of what we shouldn’t speak about and can’t speak about, or feel we can’t speak about.” More

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Temperature Check, Vol. 13: Reflections, The Closing Issue

News DigestSeptember 9, 2021

Our Temperature Check series concludes with updates from featured guests and writers as well as the latest in legislative and organizational advocacy efforts. More

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The PEN Pod: On Vaccine Misinformation, the Capitol Insurrection, and Crackdowns on Journalists in Russia

InterviewJuly 30, 2021

“It’s extremely important to get [the Capitol insurrection] down as a first draft of history that cannot be wished away or ignored.” More

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LGBTQ+ Advocate Frank Mugisha Discusses the State of Free Expression in Uganda

InterviewJuly 8, 2021

PEN America worked with a local partner to interview Frank Mugisha regarding the state of free expression for the Ugandan LGBTQ+ community. More

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The PEN Pod: On Identity Politics, Queer Selfhood, and Libraries with Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno

InterviewJune 25, 2021

“Queer poetics right now, at least as the poems that we have are beginning to tell us, say a lot about revolution, image, form—form being an equivalent to the… More

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The PEN Pod: On Threats to Journalists, Information Ecosystems, and Critical Race Theory

InterviewJune 11, 2021

“The gag order—what it illustrates is just the breadth and the power that the Justice Department has had to silence and stifle inquiry.” More

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