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Read t-shirt
Reading and it’s the same but we have to fight book bans so it’s not. We love any trend that will get people to read more!
Todd Parr for PEN America
Books are for everyone! Show your support with this exclusive design by author/illustrator Todd Parr. Also available as an infant onesie!
Mike Curato for PEN America
Fight book bans and support PEN America with this exclusive design by author Mike Curato. Also available in black, and on a canvas tote!
Art Spiegelman for PEN America
Fight book bans and support PEN America with this design by author Art Spiegelman.
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Lingua Franca x PEN America
PEN America partnered with Lingua Franca—a line of sustainably-sourced, fair-trade, luxury cashmere sweaters, all hand-stitched by women in New York City—for a series of sweaters emblazoned with phrases that reflect the work PEN America does to defend the freedom to write.
Barnes & Noble x PEN America
Our partners at Barnes & Noble created this “Open Books Open Minds” tote to benefit PEN America. Available only in stores.
500-piece Banned Book Puzzle
Read and resist with this 500-piece puzzle featuring books that have been banned in the US and abroad. The Banned Books Puzzle features art from Jane Mount, the brilliant brain behind the Bibliophile series.
More From PEN America
Premium Unisex T-Shirt
Stay cool in this premium T, flaunting your support for the freedom to write.
Premium PEN America Book Tote (Logo)
Stash your latest reads in this sturdy carry-all tote—while also featuring your support for PEN America.
Premium PEN America Book Tote (Books Are Boundless)
This limited-edition tote features a quote from the PEN charter, the binding vision that PEN America follows each and every day.
PEN America Publications
Best Debut Short Stories 2024: The PEN America Dau Prize
Best Debut Short Stories is an annual celebration of the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these twelve stories are the 2024 winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes each writer’s outstanding debut in a literary magazine. The stories in this anthology encompass fraught family gatherings, death, inheritance, reproduction and birth, translation, secrets, and betrayals. This year’s stories were selected by judges selected by Sindya Bhanoo, Ayşegül Savaş, and Sidik Fofana.
Thank the Bloom: 2023 Prison Writing Awards Anthology
Inspired by past lovers, current partnerships, old family dynamics, and steadfast friendships that both transcend prison walls and persevere within them, this anthology includes poetry, memoir, essay, fiction, and drama. And yet these themes defy genre, turning this anthology into something else entirely: a deeper exploration of self, of power, of institutionalized racism, of systemic isolation, and of the beauty that can be found in a garden bed.
Dreaming Out Loud: Voices of Undocumented Students
What do you miss the most about the community you left behind? What are your hopes and dreams for the future? How does your experience compare to your expectations? These are just a handful of the questions explored in DREAMing Out Loud: An Anthology of Migrant Writing. This anthology features original writing from DREAMing Out Loud, PEN America’s tuition-free writing workshop series for young undocumented and immigrant authors in New York City.
The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison
A road map for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars—and shared beyond the walls—that draws on the unique insights of more than fifty contributors, most themselves justice-involved, to offer advice, inspiration and resources.
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Another great way to show your support for PEN America is by shopping from our Bookshop collections. Bookshop is an online book retailer which financially supports independent bookstores with each purchase. Browse PEN America’s recommended reading lists!