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.
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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…
International PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee will press the case of an Iranian writer and lawyer jailed for his crusade…
PEN American Center and PEN Canada, two leading centers of International PEN, today issued an urgent appeal for the release…
“Nothing is possible but everything is given. What follows is chaos and void. Hope in the end is overrated at…
We now write to express our deep concern about the health of imprisoned journalist Gao Yu, and to urge the…
The title essay of Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams, a finalist for the 2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of…
When the cell door opened, I was deep in a comfortable sleep. My eyes opened on instinct alone. There could…
To promote an appreciation of world literature and cultivate global solidarity within the general public in the United States, PEN…
