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Advocacy


  • Pham Doan Trang: A Courageous Voice for Change

    Tuesday April 9
    Anh-Thu Vo

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  • Sign PEN America’s Petition To Protect The Life Of P.M. Dunne, An Incarcerated Author

    Wednesday March 27

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  • Joint Letter: Extend the mandates of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission and Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran

    Monday March 18

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Banned Books


  • Beyond the Shelves: Three Years of Book Bans and Educational Censorship

    Friday November 1
    Jonathan Friedman

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  • The Censor’s Cut: Ellis Angel Makes Art From Banned Books

    Friday November 1
    Amulya Hiremath

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  • Freedom to Read Day of Action 2024: Working Together to Stop Book Bans

    Wednesday October 30

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Campus Free Speech


  • PEN America Free Expression Advocacy Institutes Train the Next Generation

    Monday September 16
    Julia Goldberg

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  • In Preparing for Protests, Are Campuses Going Too Far?

    Wednesday August 28
    Lisa Tolin

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  • Campus Protests Then and Now: How Today’s Encampments Echo History

    Tuesday July 16

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Disinformation


  • Lies Hurt Us All: Humanizing Our Response to Disinformation 

    Monday November 4
    Martina Van Norden

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  • Amid election conspiracy theories, a researcher narrows down the biggest threats

    Monday November 4
    Mina Haq

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  • This Arizona election official is worried about political violence. He believes community can be the solution.

    Thursday October 31
    Henry Hicks

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Educational Censorship


  • Freedom to Read Day of Action 2024: Working Together to Stop Book Bans

    Wednesday October 30

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  • PEN America Endorses the Magna Charta Universitatum 2020

    Wednesday October 9
    Jeremy C. Young

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  • University of Alabama campuses didn’t have to close their DEI offices. They did anyway.

    Friday July 26
    Samantha LaFrance

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Florida


  • Miami-Dade Schools Say No Again to LGBTQ+ History

    Wednesday October 16
    Katie Blankenship, Sophia Brown

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  • “Thank you for not giving up on Florida”: A rallying cry at the Unified Voices Summit in Orlando

    Monday July 22
    Andrew White

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  • Unified Voices Summit in Florida: Educators, Authors, Faith Leaders and Activists Organize for the Right to Read

    Wednesday July 3
    Katie Blankenship

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Gala


  • Paul Simon’s Remarks Accepting the 2024 PEN/Audible Literary Service Award

    Tuesday May 21

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  • Georgia Election Workers Remarks at the 2024 PEN America Literary Gala

    Tuesday May 21

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  • Phạm Đoan Trang Acceptance Speech | 2024 Freedom to Write Award

    Tuesday May 21

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Global Free Expression


  • Vietnam’s Silenced Writers: The Vietnamese Government Falls Short on Human Rights

    Tuesday October 29

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  • Nightmare in the Caucuses | In Conversation with Two Prominent Georgian Authors: How Cultural Suppression by Georgian Dream Has Pushed the Country to the Brink of Authoritarianism

    Thursday October 24

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  • Asal Abasian

    Asal Abasian | Exiled Iranian Journalist, Writer, Queer Feminist Activist

    Thursday September 19

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Literary Awards


  • Announcing The 2024 PEN/Bare Life Review Grant Winners

    Monday June 17

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  • Announcing The 2024 PEN/Jean Stein Grants For Literary Oral History Winners

    Monday June 17

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  • Announcing the 2024 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists

    Monday April 22

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Literary Programs


  • Kimberly Nguyen | Emerging Voices Fellow

    Thursday October 19
    Ella Jones

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  • Nathan Go | Emerging Voices Fellow

    Tuesday October 17
    Ella Jones

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  • 2023 Emerging Voices Fellows | The PEN Ten Interview

    Thursday September 14

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Membership


  • A Year of Books By PEN America Members

    Thursday December 21
    Aleah Gatto

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  • PEN America Town Hall: Conversation Amid Crisis

    Tuesday December 12
    Lisa Tolin

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  • The Common Core in Action

    Friday September 25

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Online Abuse & Digital Safety


  • Protecting Your Digital Footprint: A Guide for Journalists

    Wednesday August 28
    Viktorya Vilk, Amanda Wells, Malka Margolies

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  • Combatting Online Abuse: Practical Tips for Journalists

    Thursday August 1
    Viktorya Vilk, Amanda Wells

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  • Risk Assessment and Physical Safety: What Every Journalist Should Know

    Monday July 1
    Jeje Mohamed, Amanda Wells

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Organizational

  • The Freedom to Read Write Learn Speak

    PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week 0f Nov. 4

    Friday November 8
    Amulya Hiremath

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    PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week 0f Oct. 28

    Friday November 1
    Amulya Hiremath

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  • PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of Oct. 21

    Saturday October 26
    Amulya Hiremath

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Prison and Justice Writing


  • PEN America Prison Writing Award Winners: 2024

    Wednesday October 30

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  • The Book of Judith: Honoring Judith Tannenbaum (1947-2019)

    Friday August 9
    Spoon Jackson, Boston Woodard, Elmo Chattman, Jr., Judith Tannenbaum

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  • C. Fausto Cabrera and Zeke Caligiuri on Precarity and Critical Resistance

    Friday August 9
    C. Fausto Cabrera, Ezekiel Caligiuri

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Resource


  • #FactChallenge: Media Literacy Course on WhatsApp Leading up to the 2024 Elections

    Friday June 7

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  • Morgan Talty recommends what you should read for Native American Heritage Month

    Tuesday November 21

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  • PEN/The Order Present: Training Workshops for Independent Russian Journalists

    Tuesday October 25

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Translation


  • Response To Letter Regarding Pen/Heim Translation Fund Grants

    Wednesday July 17

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  • from Don’t Worry

    Tuesday May 1
    Mahsa Mohebali

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  • from Chaim Gravitzer

    Tuesday May 1
    Fischel Schneersohn

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U.S. Free Expression


  • Beyond the Shelves: Three Years of Book Bans and Educational Censorship

    Friday November 1
    Jonathan Friedman

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  • How to Vote and Combat Political Disinformation: A Tip Sheet for Election 2024

    Tuesday October 22

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  • From Howl to Now: Tracing the History of Censorship

    Thursday October 10
    Amulya Hiremath

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World Voices Festival


  • A Letter from the President of PEN America: American Authors Demand a Second Draft of PEN America, and the World in Which We Write

    Thursday April 18
    Jennifer Finney Boylan

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  • World Voices Festival 2024: A Statement from Former PEN America Presidents

    Wednesday April 3

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  • 2023 PEN America World Voices Festival: Day 4 Highlights

    Monday May 15
    Lisa Tolin

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Writing as Craft


  • Sacha Lamb | The PEN Ten Interview

    Thursday October 24

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    Juan Carlos Reyes | The PEN Ten Interview

    Friday October 18

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  • Alejandro Zambra and Megan McDowell | The PEN Ten

    Tuesday October 8
    Amulya Hiremath

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