PEN American Center Announces New Emerging Writers Awards
PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, announced today the creation of the PEN Emerging Writers Awards, established to promote talented… More
Susan Choi Wins Inaugural PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career
PEN American Center, the nation’s preeminent association of writers, editors, and translators, has announced Susan Choi as the recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award, a new annual award recognizing… More
PEN winners announced!
PEN American Center has announced the 2010 winners of the PEN Literary Awards. More
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Today, POMED and 19 other rights orgs sent an open letter to @SecBlinken and @JakeSullivan46 urging them not to provide $300 million in FY2021 military aid to #Egypt in light of the country's failure to meet human rights conditions.
https://pomed.org/joint-letter-biden-administration-should-not-provide-military-aid-to-egypt-in-light-of-egregious-human-rights-violations/
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"What’s important is to stand up for the children who don’t have any voices. Even if you’re not in a county like Walton County... we all have to... start speaking out. We can’t leave it to marginalized groups to speak out. We all have to speak out"—Illustrator Marla Frazee
