The Administration promised free expression. The results were anything but more freedom.
With more than 22K instances since 2021, the bans have become normalized.
Don’t miss this inspiring event that celebrates and defends freedom of expression.
DREAMing Out Loud is a paid, tuition-free creative writing workshop series for migrant writers.
Local censorship tactics are being adopted on the state and federal levels
We’ll gather virtually to envision the future of PEN America and execute organizational business.
We invite readers, authors, educators, librarians, and everyone who opposes censorship to get involved>>
Join Donate Now
Filters
Scene 1 The setting is a street corner in a residential neighborhood of the mid-1960s. The corner of a lawn…
The war has inflicted a catastrophic blow to Gaza’s cultural life and heritage, erasing records of Palestinian history that go…
PEN American Center today announced that it has joined Facebook, Google, Human Rights Watch, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Berkman…
My goal is always to get as far inside a character’s way of being in the world as I can,…
As writers, editors, and artists we stand together today in solidarity and outrage at the murder of our colleagues at…
PEN America’s fall 2022 Index of Banned Books found 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles. This…
PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, announced today at its Annual…
PEN America today mourned the death of Dutch journalist Peter de Vries, an investigative reporter who was shot in Amsterdam…
