2025年1月24日 · The U.S. Department of Education dismissed 11 complaints related to book bans, saying it was ending “Biden’s book ban hoax.” PEN America counted nearly 16,000 book bans in the past several years. It's no hoax.

2025年3月7日 · The annual PEN America Literary Gala is a highlight of the New York literary and social calendars, with over 700 guests and an exceptional group of leading writers who sit among them as Literary Hosts.

2025年2月15日 · (NEW YORK) – In response to the Department of Education’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights issuing a “Dear Colleague” letter threatening to withhold federal funds to educational institutions that engage in DEI programming, training, or other activities, PEN America released the following statement:

PEN (originally short for Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists) was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and international co-operation among writers everywhere, and to defend literature and free expression wherever they are threatened.

PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world.

Help protect the freedom to write, read, and learn by donating to PEN America today.

Our PEN America Prison Writing Committee is a group of dedicated volunteers whose primary task, among other engagements, is mining over 1,200 entries per year to judge the annual Prison Writing Awards.

Since 1963, the PEN America Literary Awards, Grants, and Fellowships Program has honored many of the most outstanding voices in literature across diverse genres, including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, children’s literature, translation, and drama.

2025年2月24日 · Crimean-based Ukrainian journalist and PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award honoree Vladyslav Yesypenko has been held in Russian custody for nearly four years. Yesypenko’s journalism focused on life under Russian occupation; days before his arrest, he was collecting footage for a video about how Crimean residents ’ lives had changed in the ...

2023年7月13日 · May 25, 1933 – German PEN Expelled Following PEN American Resolution. British novelist H. G. Wells, who became PEN’s president in 1933, led a campaign against the burning of books by the Nazis. German PEN failed to protest and tried to prevent exiled German writer Ernst Toller from speaking at the conference.