PEN America

In 2019, The 1619 Project took the country by storm.

Spearheaded by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine initiative retold the story of the founding o...

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.

State legislatures are setting up tip-lines for anonymous reports about educators. Online vigilantes are scouring professors’ social media activity and syllabi to create watch lists, generate outrage, and call for their firing. Students are recording professors in class, sometimes to report them, sometimes to circulate the recording online, and sometimes both. At PEN America,...

For the final installment of You Are A Writer, PEN America’s workshop series for early-career writers, four industry experts delved into how a book makes its way from a writer’s hands onto shelves. They discussed what agents, editors, and publicists are looking for in proposals and man...

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.