Expand Your Understanding: A Reading List
A recommended reading list compiled in anticipation of March's PEN Out Loud discussion with Layli Long Soldier and Claudia Rankine. More
Longlists for 2018 PEN America Literary Awards Celebrate Icons and Emerging Writers
PEN America today released the longlists for its 2018 Literary Awards, celebrating nearly 70 titles spanning the range of literary work including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translation, and lifetime achievement. More
SLAPPs: The Greatest Free Expression Threat You’ve Never Heard Of?
SLAPPs are a prevalent and serious—but still under-acknowledged—threat to free speech and expression. It should never be “unaffordable” to speak up. More
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London’s police department said on Friday that it would begin using facial recognition technology in the city to identify people off the street in real time with video cameras, adopting a level of surveillance that is rare outside of China. https://nyti.ms/2GiTwrD
I stand with Dwayne, who is consistently cited as a profound source of inspiration to countless writers in prison--many of whom are subject to the same manipulative "security threat" claims. Here is an OpEd about the censorship we witness @PENamerica.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/09/want-to-write-fiction-in-us-prisons-it-might-be-censored-on-security-grounds?CMP=share_btn_tw https://twitter.com/dwaynebetts/status/1220540059860045827