PEN America Launches All-Digital PEN World Voices Festival 2020
“We’ve reimagined the entire idea of what a Festival can be amid such a difficult moment in world history." More
PEN America Cancels 2020 World Voices Festival: These Truths Due to COVID-19
We come to this conclusion with heavy hearts but the threat of COVID 19 is a truth we cannot deny and that makes this Festival, as planned, impossible. More
PEN America Convenes Writers of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, and More for PEN America World Voices Festival 2020: These Truths
***VISIT THE PEN AMERICA WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL WEBSITE FOR FULL DETAILS AND TICKETS*** PEN America Today Announces Highlights of the 16th Edition of the United States’ Leading International Literary Festival,… More
2020 PEN World Voices Festival – Presale – Words and Music by Zadie Smith, Tara Westover, Suleika Jaouad, and Jon Batiste at NYU Skirball Center
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2020 PEN World Voices Festival – Presale – Jeremy O. Harris & Lynn Nottage in Conversation at the Sharp Theatre, Symphony Space
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2020 PEN World Voices Festival – Presale – The Last Archive with Jill Lepore at the Thalia Theatre, Symphony Space
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2020 PEN World Voices Festival – Presale – Margaret Atwood, Roxane Gay, and Jia Tolentino with Rebecca Traister at Town Hall
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“Chilling”: GOP has introduced 136 “educational gag order” bills in 37 states just this year
"This year's bills have been strikingly more punitive," warns #PENAmerica
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PEN America's @LieslGerntholtz: "The grotesque sentencing of Salma Al-Shehab"—a Saudi student at Leeds University (U.K.) sentenced to 34 years in prison for her Twitter activity—"is yet another abhorrent restriction of free expression in #SaudiArabia." https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-condemns-grotesque-sentencing-of-saudi-student-to-34-years-in-prison-for-her-tweets/
