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Jenny Zhang's bodies are not pretty. They cry and bleed and shit. They discuss their ablutions in the kind of graphic detail that will turn strong stomachs and guarantee… More

When Erika L. Sánchez set out to write her first novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, which is now a New York Times bestseller and a National… More

Last month, I wrote a detailed account of the mob sexual harassment I’ve been experiencing on Facebook. Dozens of readers from around the world have responded with disturbing tales… More

Arab-Israeli poet Dareen Tatour was found guilty of incitement to violence and supporting a terror organization, for poems and comments she posted to social media, in a decision handed… More

For a very long time, it’s been dogma that online harassment is the price we collectively pay for enshrining free speech above all else... The free speech organization PEN… More

The US Attorneys' Manual is a guide to Justice Department policies written for US attorneys and other department employees. It was edited late last year, for the first time… More

The journalists have won pen/Barbey Freedom to Write and National Press Club awards for their story. Last week, Reuters was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography, for its… More

PEN America this week has released its Online Harassment Field Manual, a first-of-its-kind resource to equip and empower writers and others active online “with practical tools and tactics to… More

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students Cameron Kasky and Samantha Fuentes, and Washington, D.C., high school student Zion Kelly will be presented the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom… More

“Everyone’s voices need to be raised at this time,” declared Hillary Clinton when delivering the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture last weekend at the 14th annual PEN World Voices… More