PEN Reads: Did you hear Seth Meyers is hosting the 2020 Literary Awards Ceremony?

ANNOUNCEMENT

Announcing Seth Meyers as the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony Host

We are honored to have a true champion of literature hosting our Ceremony on March 2, 8pm, at the Town Hall in New York City. All members of the literary community and general public are invited to celebrate our Honorees, including the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalists: Anne Boyer, Ilya Kaminsky, Yiyun Li, Rion Amilcar Scott, and Chris Ware.
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INTERVIEW

PEN Out Loud Talks: Saidiya Hartman and Leslie Jamison

In advance of their PEN Out Loud event on January 29, Saidiya Hartman (Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments) and Leslie Jamison (Make It Scream, Make It Burn) spoke with us about their writing process, the importance of freedom of expression, and what books we should be reading now.

INTERVIEW

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Tochi Onyebuchi

Lily Philpott

"Writers are in the business of mythmaking and imaginings, and imaginings are what, among other things, power resistance movements."

INTERVIEW

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Annalee Newitz

Lily Philpott

"Indeed, survival has been an ongoing preoccupation of mine, in both fiction and nonfiction."

Join us for
PEN Out Loud’s winter season

Warm up this winter with PEN Out Loud.

›› Saidiya Hartman with Leslie Jamison

›› Mitchell S. Jackson with Imani Perry

›› Ken Liu with Andrew Marantz

›› Bernardine Evaristo with Safiya Sinclair

›› Emily St. John Mandel with Samantha Hunt

Presented by PEN America and the Strand Book Store, PEN Out Loud is a year-round conversation series that amplifies diverse voices and convenes vital conversations with authors, poets, journalists, artists, and activists.

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