Book submissions to the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards are open now through August 1! This coming year, we will confer some $350,000 to writers and translators at all stages of their careers. We hope you'll help us spread the word and encourage the submission of your favorite books published in the 2021 calendar year. Learn more about submitting here ››
The climate for artists across South, Southeast and East Asia is increasingly hostile, with governments advancing new measures under the cover of the global COVID-19 pandemic that pose a serious threat to artistic freedom. In a new publication called Arresting Art: Repression, Censorship, and Artistic Freedom in Asia, PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection, in partnership with the Mekong Cultural Hub and the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, presents the threats that artists in Asia face, including censorship, surveillance, and digital and in-person harassment. Learn more here ››
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 Kristen Arnett:“Quite often when I’m working, I’m trying to figure out the right way to ask a thing so that I can tease out what I’m really trying to say. Library work has helped me with this immensely.”
The PEN Ten with Iván Monalisa Ojeda:“Laughter is a balm—it’s incredibly important. It’s more difficult to make someone laugh than cry. Comedy is more difficult than tragedy.”
The PEN Pod with Zakiya Dalila Harris:“When this idea hit, I was like, ‘You know what, I just need to see it through,’ but I was also feeling fatigued as the only Black woman on my floor and in editorial, so I was able to feed in my own observations of looking around the table and not seeing anyone who looked like me and what that was like.”
The Russian Key with Jeri Laber:“We have serious human rights problems in the United States, and we’ve lost what we probably should never have had—the force of our own morality that we thought the world should emulate. We’re having to face up to serious problems in our own country before we’re taken seriously as a beacon for the rest of the world.”
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