Journalist Qi Chonghuai Sentenced to A Further Eight Years
PEN International protests the additional eight-year sentence handed down to freelance journalist Qi Chonghuai on June 9, 2011, two weeks before the end of his four-year sentence for extortion… More
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Great event tonight with @_joseolivarez @IsaacFitzgerald and @PENamerica for PROMISES OF GOLD. Dynamite young poets kicked off the night. We had an audience full of the kindest people. So good! Poetry! Hooray!
Spoke to @jeremycyoung of @PENamerica about Florida’s higher ed restrictions & why they are “straight out of the global authoritarian playbook”
https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/floridas-university-restrictions/
Join us and actor, author, and former Obama White House aide Kal Penn at the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2. https://pen.org/event/2023-pen-america-literary-awards/