Two Poets Detained; Fears for Safety
PEN protests the arrest of poets and lyricists Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi, who have been held in Section 2A of Tehran’s Evin prison since December 7, 2013, apparently… More
PEN.org Honored with Interactive Media Award
PEN American Center is pleased to announce that the newly redesigned PEN website, www.pen.org has won Interactive Media Council’s IMA Outstanding Achievement Award in the category of advocacy. The… More
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PEN America mourns the loss of Stephen Sondheim, the 2017 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award recipient.
On the Day of the #ImprisonedWriter, PEN America gathered readers and writers outside the Russian consulate in New York City in support of journalists imprisoned for covering the occupied territories of eastern Ukraine and Crimea. Learn more with @VOANews: https://bit.ly/3DZ9HGH
Information voids, lack of regulation & existing distrust can offer easy inroads for disinformation to infiltrate group chats and newsfeeds. On 12/2 we're partnering with @AAAJ_AAJC to equip families with routes to credible information: https://bit.ly/3xbvAjy.
