PEN America

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PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom ...

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A Mural Takes Shape in New York's Union Square

PEN World Voices Festival Attacks on Democracy

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi & Friends Chain of Ideas, a Global Conversation

Through Her Eyes Exploring Gender Discrimination in Fiction

Erased Media Erasure and Authoritarianism

Writing as Resistance

Translation Slam

Big Laughs A World Voices Festival Comedy Show

Crafting Nightmares The Art of Horror with Stephen Graham Jones & Paul Tremblay

Page to Screen Book to Film Adaptations with Sigrid Nunez and André Aciman

Bold Voices Latin American Writers in Conversation

Under Siege The Perils of Journalism in an Age of State Repression

The PEN and the State The Role of Novelists in Times of Crisis

Mothers, Sons, and Daughters The Complex Ties That Bind

Land of 10,000 Lakes by Ollie Schminkey

Bringing Back Books They Love

Disappearing Acts Censorship in American Theater

Creative Collaboration Through the Walls Adam McGee (Incarcerated Writers Bureau)

Between Publishing and Prison C. Fausto Cabrera (Incarcerated Writers Bureau)

Pay Equity for Writers in Prison Rahsaan Thomas (Incarcerated Writers Bureau)

PEN America x the San Francisco Opera present The Rebel’s Role The Monkey King, Mischief, and Myth

2025 Emerging Voices Fellowship The Final Reading

Episode 7 Secure Your Insta & LinkedIn Accounts (Yep, Those Too)

Michael S. Roth, President of Wesleyan University, 2025 PENBenenson Courage Award Recipient

2025 PENBarbey Freedom to Write Award Video Galal El Behairy

Women’s Voices from the Revolution Book Launch and Conversation with Writers from Myanmar

Patrick Radden Keefe Presents the PENAudible Literary Service Award to Sarah Jessica Parker

Taye Diggs Remarks at the 2025 PEN America Literary Gala

The Family of Galal El-Behairy Accept the PENBarbey Freedom to Write Award

Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf and Summer Lopez, Interim Co-CEOs, at the 2025 PEN America Literary Gala