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Human rights defender and journalist Nargess Mohammadi released

Rapid ActionAugust 10, 2012

From the day that the prosecutor ruled my detention, until now, everything has been upside down. I am speechless and now going back to Silivri [prison] to pack my… More

Introduction to 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories

Essay

By: Laura Furman | April 13, 2011

Every year, after the long process ends of choosing the twenty PEN/O. Henry Prize stories from the many submitted, friends ask me what trends were revealed by all that… More

Sunshine

Fiction

By: Lynn Freed | April 13, 2011

They told Grace they’d found her curled into a nest of leaves, that since dawn they’d been following a strange spoor through the bush, and then, just as they’d… More

Human rights defender and journalist Nargess Mohammadi released

Introduction to 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories

Sunshine

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A Letter from the President of PEN America: American Authors Demand a Second Draft of PEN America, and the World in Which We Write

Response to Prism Reports Article Raising Concern Over Cash Prize Money Delays for Prize-Winning Incarcerated Writers

Salman Rushdie on His New Memoir: ‘I Had to Face This’

PEN America: USC Decision to Cancel Valedictorian’s Graduation Speech Amounts to “Heckler’s Veto”