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Stand With Salman: Defend the Freedom to Write

Friday, August 19, 2022 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm ET
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PEN America, with 102 International Writers and Artists, Calls for India to Uphold the Freedom to Write Ahead of 75th Independence Day Celebration

Press ReleaseAugust 15, 2022

Over 100 writers and artists joined PEN America and PEN International in urging Indian President Droupadi Murmu to defend free expression in India. More

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DARE: Twitter Will Start Hiding Tweets that “Detract from the Conversation”

News DigestMay 16, 2018

Twitter announces that it will hide certain tweets from conversation threads in a bid to counter trolling. Senate expected to vote today on a resolution to overturn the FCC's… More

Richard Price and Fran Lebowitz on Gentrification in NYC

MultimediaMarch 15, 2018

Richard Price and Fran Lebowitz share perspectives on the changing dynamics of living in NYC in this video clip from the 2016 PEN World Voices Festival. More

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“They Killed Him”: Denial of Medical Care in China and the Literary Conscience

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By: James Tager | November 15, 2017

As a matter of medicine, it was of course cancer that took Liu’s life. But the responsibility for his death must rest on the shoulders of the Chinese state. More

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Read the Resistance, July 2017: The Scarlet Letter

July 4, 2017

The Scarlet Letter is a great novel of resistance by a woman who opposes the patriarchy, hypocrisy, and misogyny of her world with stubborn, mute, but unbending insistence. More

American Publishers Take a Stand Against Censorship in China

By: Amy Qin | October 15, 2015

This may be remembered as the year China’s publishing industry truly went global. In May, a large delegation of Chinese publishers attended BookExpo America, a major publishing trade event,… More

Neil Gaiman joins authors in urging Chinese president to release jailed writers

By: Alison Flood | September 21, 2015

More than 40 authors, including Jonathan Franzen, Neil Gaiman and Ian McEwan, have written an open letter to Xi Jinping, ahead of his first US state visit, expressing ‘concern… More

PEN Appeals to Xi Jinping for Release of Imprisoned Chinese

By: Edward Wong | September 18, 2015

For them, pens and laptops are the tools of their trade and their megaphones to the world. More

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Somehow this is both stunning and totally run-of-the-mill for 2023. A university president - at a public university in Texas - has decided to unilaterally cancel a student-organized drag show charity fundraiser for @TrevorProject. Just b/c he felt like it. #FreeSpeech #EdScare https://twitter.com/1AMorey/status/1637993457653252102

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Included in the 3rd issue of The Journal of Women and Criminal Justice is our director of Prison and Justice Writing @caits_meissner's letter underscoring the importance of uplifting the voices of incarcerated women. Read more here: https://www.njreentry.org/application/files/7316/7847/0620/The_Journal_of_Women_and_Criminal_Justice_Summer_Edition_2023.pdf

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