PEN Welcomes the Release of Enoh Meyomesse
PEN American Center welcomes the release of Cameroonian poet Enoh Meyomesse from prison. More
Steve Champion, PEN Prison Writing Award Winner, Hunger Strikes in San Quentin
Steve Champion, a prize-winning writer in the PEN Prison Writing contest, has been on hunger strike in the Adjustment Center (solitary confinement) of San Quentin's death row since October… More
PEN American Center Announces Freedom to Write Fellowship
PEN American Center announced today that it has received a grant from the Ford Foundation to fund the position of Freedom to Write Fellow, a full-time, 18-month fellowship in… More
V.A. Nurse to Receive 2008 PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award
PEN American Center has named Laura Berg, a Veterans Administration nurse who faced a sedition investigation after writing a letter to the editor of her local paper criticizing the… More
Announcing $10,000 Award for First Amendment Defender
PEN American Center and the Katherine Anne Porter Foundation today unveiled a new $10,000 prize for ordinary people who take extraordinary stands to defend the First Amendment in the… More
2006 PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award
PEN American Center has named Sibel Edmonds, a translator who was fired from her job at the FBI after complaining of intelligence failures and poor performance in her unit,… More
Librarian Who Fought FBI Search to Receive 2005 PEN/Newman’s Own Award
PEN American Center has named Joan Airoldi, a librarian and library director in rural Washington State who challenged an FBI effort to search patron records, as the recipient of… More
PEN/Newman’s Own Award recipient Barbara Parsons Lane given parole
The state has granted parole to a woman who won a $25,000 writing award with the help of best-selling author Wally Lamb. More
PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award recipient announced
PEN American Center has named Barbara Parsons Lane, one of eight incarcerated writers who were sued by the State of Connecticut after contributing to the acclaimed collection Couldn't Keep… More
Vanessa Leggett to receive 2002 PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award
PEN American Center today named Vanessa Leggett, the freelance writer who was jailed in a federal detention center in Texas for 168 days for refusing to bow to a… More
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