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Treasures from the PEN America Archives Celebrates 100th Year in NY Historical Society Exhibit Opening July 22
Highlights include a letter from poet T.S. Eliot in 1948, expressing his “distress and terror” over a dinner being organized in his honor; cocktail party invitations sent between 1951… More
PEN America Opens Submissions for 2023 Literary Awards
(NEW YORK)-- The literary and free expression organization PEN America today announced the opening of submissions and nominations for the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards. Submissions for book awards… More
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NEW: PEN America today released a letter to @POTUS signed by 44 noted authors & journalists urging the President to raise his Administration’s concerns about the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia with Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman later this week. https://bit.ly/3uqzhBA
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PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel’s book Dare to Speak, providing a pathway for navigating and defending free speech, is on sale!