Our Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Reading list brings you a list of books that expand upon and amplify Asian Pacific American stories, histories, and authors. Reflecting upon how the recent acts of anti-Asian violence and racism have roots in the history of American racism and exclusion at large, we selected a range of books that acknowledge how these histories connect to our present. Check out the reading list ››
Submissions close June 1 for the PEN America Literary Grants, awarding over $70,000 for works in progress in the fields of oral history, translation, and children's and young adult fiction. Full guidelines can be found at pen.submittable.com. Apply now.
The PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants support the translation of book-length works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama. The grants assist in the completion of translations-in-progress.
The PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature awards a $5,000 grant to a translator for a work-in-progress of a book-length translation of an Italian work of literary fiction or nonfiction into English. The grant operates within the existing PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants and any applicant whose project is a translation of narrative prose from the Italian is automatically considered for the PEN Grant for the Translation of Italian Literature.
The PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History honor works of nonfiction that use oral history to illuminate their subject. Two writers receive grants of $15,000 to help complete their works-in-progress.
Throughout the week of the PEN World Voices Festival, we released special PEN Pod episodes each day, during which we spoke to featured authors and discussed recurring and important themes throughout the Festival.
Episode One- Previewing the PEN World Voices Festival with Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf Episode Two - Festival Day One: Masha Gessen, Ayad Akhtar, and the PEN World Voices Festival Episode Three - Festival Day Two: Allison Markin Powell and Gabriela Page-Fort on Bringing Translated Literature to Vast Audiences Episode Four - Festival Day Three: Torrey Peters and Liberation Literature Episode Five - Festival Day Four: Kawai Strong Washburn and Magical Storytelling Episode Six- Festival Day Five: Brian Broome and Unapologetic Memoir
PEN America’s third annual Prison Writing Anthology, Breathe into the Ground, is an impressive collection of poetry, nonfiction, and drama from incarcerated writers in the United States compiled amid the devastating pandemic. Included in these writings are personal letters from the writers about their experiences during the pandemic, original artwork provided by incarcerated artists through the Justice Arts Coalition , and moving letters from the mentorship pairs organized through the PEN America/L’Engle-Rahman Award in Mentorship. Learn more and purchase your copy here ››
Join Symphony Space’s Salon series for an intimate conversation with novelist, screenwriter, playwright, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Disgraced, and PEN America President Ayad Akhtar about his life and work, including Homeland Elegies. Limited to 30 tickets, you get the opportunity for a one-of-a-kind in-depth discussion. Buy now ››
Join The New York Times for T Magazine's book club, which focuses on classic works of American literature, for a conversation on Ralph Ellison’sInvisible Man. On June 17, watch a virtual discussion about the book, featuring writer, scholar and T writer at large Adam Bradley, that will address questions from readers. We hope you'll read along — and RSVP››
The PEN Ten with Brian Broome:“We need stories to show us the way—to give us guidance. Just as importantly, stories can feel almost like human contact, or at least connection—something I think a lot of us have been missing lately. After all, the power of narrative often lies in what we see in its characters and what we hope to see in ourselves.”
The PEN Ten with Kenichiro Hirano:"When a novel has compelling prose, brims with soul-shaking turns of phrase, features characters more intriguing than real people, and depicts a world that provides a greater sense of spiritual exaltation than reality, I feel sad to have to finish reading it."
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