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HOW MEMBERS CAN GET INVOLVED
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• Read and take action: visit this site regularly and watch the monthly e-newsletter for public programs, petitions, and letter-writing campaigns.
• Sign up for the Rapid Action Network (RAN): Alerts Members to developments affecting the welfare of writers around the globe and encourages Members to respond instantly by writing an appeal and passing the information on to their contacts.
• Join the Campaign for Core Freedoms: An intensive education and advocacy campaign to address freedom of expression and human rights concerns connected with the USA Patriot Act and the full range of antiterrorism laws and orders enacted since 9/11.
• Post your Events, News, and Publications: Join our growing online community. Translators can post their profile in the PEN Directory of Translators.
• Subscribe to PEN Podcasts: exclusive interviews, recent PEN public programs, and archival audio files from World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature.
• Mentor a teen writer: The PEN Writing Institute brings together professional writers and underserved New York City public school teens as part of the Readers & Writers Program. Members participate both in person as instructors and remotely by reviewing the work of students.
• Become a member of a PEN Committee: Open Book, Children’s/Young Adult Authors, Translation, and the Prison Writing Committees (includes the Prison Writing Mentor program) welcome new members throughout the year. Other Member Committees also include the Writers’ Roundtable and the Women’s Literary Workshop.
• Freedom to Write case minders: Monitor and advocate on behalf of an imprisoned writer outside the United States. Members can participate from anywhere in the country.
• Contribute to the PEN web site: Members Speak Out and Member Forums are features to which Members contribute on a regular basis.
• PEN America: Our award winning journal is always looking for contributions from Members.
• Volunteer Bank: Fill in an online profile.
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PEN VOLUNTEER BANK
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PEN is always looking for enthusiastic people with a passion for
literature who want to lend their time, expertise, or muscle to support
PEN’s core mission to advance literature, defend free expression, and
foster international literary fellowship.
Since PEN’s inception, volunteers have been crucial to the success of
its work. International PEN was founded in 1921 by writers who
volunteered their time and abilities in an effort to dispel national,
ethnic, and racial hatreds and to promote understanding among all
countries. Similarly, PEN American Center was founded a year later in
1922 by like-minded writers who understood that they could make a
difference.
Whether you serve as a Member on one of our Committees or you write
letters to Congress, whether you are a ticket-taker at one of PEN’s
public events or act as an interpreter for a visiting foreign author,
you will always be making a difference.
As a volunteer you may have a chance to: assist PEN in hosting American
and international writers, staff sold-out events and receptions, work
with like-minded individuals who have a passion for literature, help an
imprisoned or persecuted writer, make your voice heard by joining the
numerous PEN members who speak out on domestic and international
free-expression issues, promote literature as something that can be
created and appreciated by all Americans, regardless of income, race,
or gender.
If you are interested in volunteering, please fill in this questionnaire.
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