Advocacy View All 2025 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award Honoree: Galal El-Behairy Tuesday May 13 Read More Joint Congressional Letter on Journalists Endangered by Shutdown of U.S. Agency for Global Media Tuesday April 1 Read More PEN America’s Testimony Against North Dakota Tenure Bill Wednesday March 12 Read More
Banned Books View All Pride Month: A Banned Book Reading List Thursday May 29 Sabrina Baêta Read More Lil Miss Hot Mess Wants Kids To Bring Out Their Best Selves And Have The Best Time Thursday May 15 Read More The Librarians Documentary Film Captures the Courage of Library Workers Standing Against Book Censorship Wednesday May 14 William Johnson Read More
Campus Free Speech View All Wesleyan University President Michael Roth’s Remarks Accepting the PEN/Benenson Courage Award Monday May 19 Read More ‘Fraught’ Frontiers for Student Press Freedom Day 2025 Wednesday February 26 Nicholas Perez Read More ‘This Conference Has Been Canceled’: The Impact of Trump’s War on ‘DEI’ Friday February 14 Kristen Shahverdian Read More
Disinformation View All AI-Generated Fake Book List Seems Funny, but Reflects the Technology’s Danger to Journalism Wednesday May 21 AJ Connelly, Timothy Richardson Read More Fighting a Global Problem Through a Local Lens Friday March 28 Michelle Beaver Read More How one newsroom battled political violence and opened spaces for dialogue Friday February 14 Maritza L. Félix Read More
Educational Censorship View All It’s time for parents and students to protect the public education opportunities they want Tuesday May 13 Read More “Return on Investment” is a Red Herring Monday May 5 Clare Carter Read More A Pledge to Our Democracy: The Champions of Higher Education Tuesday April 22 Read More
Florida View All Coalition led by PEN Florida lobbies in Tallahassee to undo the harms of censorship Wednesday March 19 Read More PEN America Florida’s Legislative Priorities 2025 Monday March 10 Read More Free Expression and the Threat of Christian Nationalism in Florida and Beyond Friday January 24 Sophia Brown Read More
Gala View All Taye Diggs Remarks Presenting PEN America Business Visionary Award to Macmillan Publishers CEO Jon Yaged Thursday May 22 Taye Diggs Read More Patrick Radden Keefe Remarks Presenting the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award to Sarah Jessica Parker Thursday May 22 Patrick Radden Keefe Read More Wesleyan University President Michael Roth’s Remarks Accepting the PEN/Benenson Courage Award Monday May 19 Read More
Global Free Expression View All 375 Voices Behind Bars: Why Governments Repress Writers Friday May 23 Karin Deutsch Karlekar Read More ‘First, I Have to Breathe’: From Myanmar, Women Share Stories of Resistance Wednesday May 21 Read More Remarks Accepting the Freedom to Write Award on Behalf of Galal El-Behairy Monday May 19 Read More
Literary Awards View All Announcing the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards Winners Friday May 9 Read More Twelve Emerging Writers To Receive 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Friday April 25 Read More Michael Heim’s Choice: A Letter from Michael Kerr to the Translation Community Friday April 18 Read More
Literary Community View All As Threats and Harassment of Authors Spill Over Into Bookstore Appearances, Safety Experts Offer Guidance Thursday May 29 Suzanne Trimel Read More AI-Generated Fake Book List Seems Funny, but Reflects the Technology’s Danger to Journalism Wednesday May 21 AJ Connelly, Timothy Richardson Read More Literary Salons in Washington: Havens of Hope in Fraught Times Monday April 14 Read More
Literary Programs View All Crafting Courage: Ava DuVernay and Shiori Itō on Women, Film, and the Power of Personal Narrative Monday May 12 Allison Lee Read More 2025 PEN World Voices Festival: On Censorship in American Theater Thursday May 1 Lisa Tolin Read More 2025 PEN World Voices Festival Opening Night: The PEN and the State Thursday May 1 Lisa Tolin Read More
Membership View All Federico Erebia: Encouraging Underrepresented Voices in Children’s Literature Wednesday May 21 Aleah Gatto Read More Sarah Tomlinson: Ghostwriting, Los Angeles, and the Power of Rock & Roll Wednesday February 19 Ayana O’Brien Read More The State of the Nation, the State of Free Expression: PEN America Annual General Meeting Focuses on Unity Against Threats Wednesday January 8 Read More
Online Abuse & Digital Safety View All As Threats and Harassment of Authors Spill Over Into Bookstore Appearances, Safety Experts Offer Guidance Thursday May 29 Suzanne Trimel Read More Top Safety Tips for Those Defending the Freedom to Read Monday May 19 Read More Journalist Safety Urgent Care Helpline Responds to Growing Threats Monday March 24 Read More
Organizational View All PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of June 2 Friday June 6 Read More PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of May 26 Thursday May 29 Read More PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of May 19 Friday May 23 Read More
Press Freedom View All AI-Generated Fake Book List Seems Funny, but Reflects the Technology’s Danger to Journalism Wednesday May 21 AJ Connelly, Timothy Richardson Read More The White House Is Choosing Its Own Press Pool. 5 Reasons That Should Alarm You. Monday April 28 Timothy Richardson, Viktorya Vilk Read More Local LGBTQ+ Reporters in Conversation: Jason Parsley Thursday June 17 Read More
Prison and Justice Writing View All Introducing Verse Among Us: A National Poetry Writing Month Zine Tuesday April 1 Jess Abolafia Read More Announcing the 2024 PEN America/L’Engle Rahman Prize for Mentorship Honorees Wednesday March 26 Read More PEN America Prison Writing Award Winners: 2024 Wednesday October 30 Read More
Resource View All #FactChallenge: Media Literacy Course on WhatsApp Leading up to the 2024 Elections Friday June 7 Read More Morgan Talty recommends what you should read for Native American Heritage Month Tuesday November 21 Read More Native American Heritage Month – Reading List by Oscar Hokeah Friday November 17 Read More
Translation View All Michael Heim’s Choice: A Letter from Michael Kerr to the Translation Community Friday April 18 Read More Books, Roses, and Food: Sant Jordi Festival Celebrates Translation in New York Tuesday March 18 Aleah Gatto Read More Response To Letter Regarding Pen/Heim Translation Fund Grants Wednesday July 17 Read More
U.S. Free Expression View All Flags are Increasingly Targeted by Government Bans, with Complaints Focused on Pride and Black Lives Matter Flags Thursday June 5 Madison Markham Read More Pride Month: A Banned Book Reading List Thursday May 29 Sabrina Baêta Read More As Threats and Harassment of Authors Spill Over Into Bookstore Appearances, Safety Experts Offer Guidance Thursday May 29 Suzanne Trimel Read More
World Voices Festival View All Bold Voices: On Language and Literature in Translation at PEN World Voices Festival Monday June 2 Amanda Wells Read More ‘History is the Shape We Give the Past’: Bernhard Schlink and Claire Messud Talk Preserving History Through Writing Friday May 23 Read More Two Acclaimed Authors Look Back at Their Older Books, Now in Reprint Thursday May 22 Suzanne Trimel Read More
Writer Opportunities View All ‘This Thing You’re Doing Is Worth It’: Rising Fiction Stars Celebrate PEN/Dau Prize Thursday January 23 Read More A Year of Books By PEN America Members 2024 Thursday December 19 Read More 2024 Free Expression Essay Competition Winners Monday July 15 Read More
Writers View All Sarah Tomlinson: Ghostwriting, Los Angeles, and the Power of Rock & Roll Wednesday February 19 Ayana O’Brien Read More The State of the Nation, the State of Free Expression: PEN America Annual General Meeting Focuses on Unity Against Threats Wednesday January 8 Read More
Writers at Risk View All 375 Voices Behind Bars: Why Governments Repress Writers Friday May 23 Karin Deutsch Karlekar Read More ‘First, I Have to Breathe’: From Myanmar, Women Share Stories of Resistance Wednesday May 21 Read More 2025 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award Honoree: Galal El-Behairy Tuesday May 13 Read More
Writing as Craft View All Embodying Performance in a New Poetry Collection on the Life of Nina Simone Thursday May 29 Ayana O’Brien Read More Alison Bechdel is Covering Her Tracks Wednesday May 21 Claire Mehrotra Read More ‘We Exist’: Caro De Robertis’ New Book Is a Collection of Oral Histories of 20 Gender-Diverse Elders Thursday May 8 Aleah Gatto Read More