The PEN Ten: An Interview with Dohra Ahmad
"The biggest threat to free expression has always been, and will continue to be, unequal access to publication and publicity." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Azar Nafisi
"Literature resists tyranny mainly by refusing to remain silent, by giving voice to the voiceless, the silenced and the suppressed." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
"If you’re stuck in your own work, read someone else’s." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Emerging Voices Fellows Davin Malasarn and Monica Carter
"The program has helped me get published, given me wonderful experiences reading my work in public, and supported me at every stage of my career." More
The PEN Ten: Jevon Jackson on Uncompromising Truth and What Makes for Good Narrative
"Good Narratives create a world that we can identify with, populated with people we can relate to, and regardless of the plot or the characters' journey . . .… More
“Be Versatile and Stay Curious”: A PEN Ten Interview with Zahra Hankir
"My interest was not so much in the challenges themselves, but rather, how the women felt about and responded to them." More
“Stories Help Expand Our Boundaries”: A PEN Ten Interview with Maaza Mengiste
"We know the world is more than we can sense or experience in one lifetime; stories help expand our boundaries." More
Creating Meaning: A PEN Ten Interview with Ling Ma
"Making narrative is the act of organizing information into a coherent system of cause and effect. In this way, it is the act of creating meaning." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Author and Translator Stefania Heim
"Translation is a practice. It can also be a rich and humbling way of participating in the world." More
“Write the World You Want”: A PEN Ten Interview with Cadwell Turnbull
"We are preoccupied by privilege. Our worldview skews towards it. There is no greater threat to free human expression." More
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We made an error - Saeed Jones is no longer a PEN America Member. We congratulate Saeed on being on The New Yorker’s list of Best Books for 2019.
Two publishers of prestigious scientific journals said they would re-evaluate previously published papers, on ethnic minorities and co-written by scientists backed by the Chinese gov, to ensure the authors got consent from those they studied: https://bit.ly/389lXFc via @nytimes.
In a portfolio commissioned by the @econhardship, poet @dougvangundy and photographer Matt Eich sought to shed light on life in Webster County, West Virginia and add dimension and detail to an often oversimplified portrayal of the area: https://bit.ly/3676dk9.