KEEPING COMPANY AMID CORONAVIRUS

Announcing: JUST PRESS PLAY

At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting millions of people’s lives in unprecedented ways, PEN America’s World Voices Festival launches a new playlist series with songs selected by some of our favorite authors from around the world. Our first playlist features songs curated by Laila Lalami, whose novel The Other Americans was a National Book Award finalist. Listen now ››

W ays to Support Indie Bookstores

With independent bookstores all around the country forced to shut their doors due to the global pandemic, we reached out to booksellers in PEN Across America chapter cities and beyond to ask them how readers can support their favorite stores while sheltering in place. Read Volume 1, featuring stores from Birmingham, Dallas, and Detroit here »

PODCASTS

The PEN Pod

Check out PEN America's new podcast, "The PEN Pod," featuring conversations with writers like PEN America President Jennifer Egan, PEN/Jean Stein Book Award winner Yiyun Li, and former PEN President Andrew Solomon, whose takes on our current moment are providing us with both comfort and insight. Listen now ››

READING LISTS

PEN World Voices 2020

A Festival Reading List

PEN America’s World Voices Festival is proud to share these books, newly and soon-to-be published by authors due to appear at the 2020 World Voices Festival. We invite you to celebrate these works and support these authors by buying and reading these books.
Read now ››

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

APPLY NOW

PEN America's 2021 Grants & Fellowships are open now for submissions!

› PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists

› PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants

› PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History

› Emerging Voices Fellowship

Reading Lists

Cooped up at home? It's a good time to catch up on some reading. Check out our other reading lists, featuring poetry collections, novels, memoirs, and more from some of the most urgent voices of our time.

› Emerging Voices Recommend Fellowship Alumni: A Reading List

› Poets Recommend Collections For Our Moment: A Reading List