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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.
Social Goods x PEN America
Social Goods is an online store of statement-making goods that help people feel proud and emboldened to start the conversations that matter to them. Every purchase in the PEN America collection supports the work PEN does to protect the Freedom to Read.
CHNGE x PEN America
CHNGE is a conscious collective creating ethical clothing. Purchase a t-shirt from their PEN America collection and support the Freedom to Read.
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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.
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Best Debut Short Stories 2026: The PEN America Dau Prize
Best Debut Short Stories celebrates the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these twelve stories are the 2026 winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes outstanding debuts published in literary magazines.
Each story is accompanied by an introduction from the journal editor who first published it, providing insight about what’s exciting in fiction right now, and recognizing the vital work literary magazines do in nurturing new voices.
Other Things Unspoken: 2024 Prison Writing Awards Anthology
Initiated in the wake of the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program strives to bridge access to literary community for writers working under strict conditions of surveillance and censorship in carceral facilities across the United States. Its founding initiative, the PEN Prison Writing Awards, receives hundreds of submissions annually in the categories of Poetry, Fiction, Essay, Memoir, and Drama. Winners receive a cash prize, publication in an anthology series, and the opportunity to participate in the Prison Writing Mentorship Program.
Dreaming Out Loud: An Anthology of Migrant Writers
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!