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Title: PEN America - The Freedom to Write

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PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out.

PEN America spoke with Barry Newhouse, a longtime staffer at the Voice of America who is among the journalists suing the U.S. Agency for Global Media for twisting the broadcaste...

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Shanda McManus | The PEN Ten Interview

Shanda McManus’ debut memoir, Brother Epistles: A Sister’s Memoir (Split/Lip Press, 2026), opens with a premonitory dream about her younger brother Monir’s death. Written as a series of letters to her late sibling, the memoir follows McManus through her life as a child in North Philadelphia, the immediate...


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Tell us how you use social media, and we’ll tell you how to stay safer.

The most common safety questions we get from writers are about social media. Writers often use social media to share their work, connect with readers, and keep up with news and opportunities. But having an online presence also carries risks–including doxing and other abusive tactics. Th...


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By Eleanor Belinfanti

Daggermouth, self-published by H.M. Wolfe in 2025 and picked up by Simon and Schuster to publish in 2027, was a long-running USA Today best-seller and the former first place title-holder in Amazon’s “science fiction romance” genre. It was also, according to


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On May 17, thousands descended onto the National Mall in Washington for a daylong Christian prayer rally. It’s the kind of American cultural event invariably covered by the broadcast news agency


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