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Today, PEN America launches its Online Harassment Field Manual, a resource with the mission to better prepare and empower writers, journalists, and all of us living our lives online with… More

The theme of this year’s festival, in which 165 authors from more than 50 countries are participating, is “Resist and Reimagine,” the expectation being that these dozens of panels… More

Yassmin Abdel-Magied was in the U.S. to give speeches at the PEN America World Voices Festival in New York next week. The title of one of her presentations was fitting… More

PEN America, which in February awarded Wa Lone and Kyaw Saw Oo its PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award designed to honor writers imprisoned for their work, called for the… More

Yassmin Abdel-Magied, 27, an award-winning author and broadcaster, was scheduled to speak next week at the Pen World Voices Festival in New York. When she arrived in Minneapolis around… More

This year’s PEN World Voices Festival: Resist and Reimagine promises to interrogate America’s own dissident histories and power dynamics. More

"We must sound the alarm right now and everyday to end the epidemic of gun violence in our country." Kyle Dacuyan of PEN America spoke these words to a… More

After more than three decades in the Washington state prison system, where he is serving life without parole for aggravated murder, Arthur Longworth can stake a legitimate claim to… More

The PEN America Writing for Justice fellowship aims to harness the power of writing to bear witness to the "societal consequences of mass incarceration by capturing and sharing the… More

On April 19, the four living nominated authors, as well as Barry Jenkins—who is adapting Beale Street into a film, and serving as advocate for that book—will gather for… More