PEN Out Loud focuses on amplifying diverse voices and convening vital conversations with authors, poets, journalists, artists, and activists. We're back this fall with a full slate of conversations on political intrigue, the perils of the internet age, and the bonds of friendship to illuminate the breadth of our collective imagination and highlight the role of the written word in our hearts and in our minds.
PEN America is proud to present Percival Everett in conversation with David L. Ulin in celebration of Everett’s latest novel, The Trees, a strange, provocative tale of history, racism, and violence that refuses to be forgotten. Everett will read from the book and discuss the writing process with PEN America Los Angeles Committee Member David L. Ulin, editor of Air/Light Magazine and the author or editor of over a dozen books, including Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. This program is co-presented by Skylight Books. Learn more and register here ››
PEN America is proud to present Maggie Nelson in conversation with Cathy Park Hong in celebration of Nelson’s latest book, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, in which she explores the concept of freedom within the realms of art, sex, drugs, and climate. Nelson will explore the ethics that drive her latest work with writer Cathy Park Hong, author of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist and 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography-winning book, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. This is an official 2021 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event. Learn more and register here ››
PEN America announces its 2022 Literary Grant winners! Each grant, juried by an esteemed collective of judges, recognizes works-in-progress in multiple forms and genres, including oral history, young adult literature, and translation. Join us in celebrating the winning writers, and read more about them here ››
The PEN Ten with Steven Reigns: “I love writers and see us as having a great impact on culture. Journalists educate on what is really happening, novelists and poets give us an emotional experience to relate to and reflect on, historians tell us about the past and allow us to see warnings and patterns, academic writing helps us examine the messaging we are given.”
The PEN Ten with Marisel Vera: “I have always loved history, and once I claimed for myself that I was a writer, I claimed Puerto Ricans and Puerto Rican history as my subject. But it wasn’t because I knew so much Puerto Rican history—it was because I didn’t know much. My parents didn’t know much either because that’s what happens when you are a colony: your history is erased.”
National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris is joined on the virtual stage by Matthew Thomas and special guests for a conversation on his most recent novel, A Calling for Charlie Barnes, a tender, arrestingly funny, and deeply personal portrait based closely on Ferris' own early life. Actor and comedian Michael Ian Black performs an excerpt from the novel. Buy tickets now ››
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