NEWTON - After a significant increase in banned books across the country, towns in Massachusetts are hosting banned book readings to promote freedom to write and freedom of speech. Fahrenheit 451, a ...

Two views of Gary Shteyngart and Salman Rushdie at last night's PEN event (all photos are by the author for Hyperallergic) Rushdie began the evening by applauding PEN, which is the world’s oldest ...

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PEN and authors from across Americas condemn violence against journalists in Latin America and call for end to impunity around murders and disappearances in Mexico (WiPC/IFEX) – 21 April 2009 – To ...

Mr. Rosenblatt is the author of “Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing,” as well as, most recently, “A Steinway on the Beach: Wounds and Other Blessings.” When I awoke last ...

(PEN/IFEX) – The following is a PEN American Center press release: Burmese Poet, Uighur Historian to Receive 2002 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Awards New York, New York, April 11, 2002 – PEN ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Three Saudi women’s rights activists whose arrests last year have been condemned worldwide are being honored by PEN America. Nouf Abdulaziz, Loujain al-Hathloul and Eman al-Nafjan have ...

Johnetta Elzie won the 2015 Howard Zinn Freedom to Write Award from PEN New England. She and DeRay McKesson were recognized for their work as activists, organizers and citizen journalists in the ...