"We hear you and we want to move forward with you together," the organization's president Jennifer Finney Boylan said at the ...
The free-expression group has been engulfed by debate over its response to the Gaza war that forced the cancellation of its ...
PEN America gathered Thursday night for its annual gala, a high-profile event raised even higher because some wondered if it ...
Free expression nonprofit PEN America held its annual Literary Gala yesterday at the Museum of National History in Manhattan. A group of protesters critical of the group's response to the humanitarian ...
In 2015, PEN America, the organization devoted to defending free speech, chose to honor the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at its annual gala. A few months earlier, Islamic extremists had ...
Last week a boycott forced PEN America to cancel its annual World Voices literary festival. The boycott’s leaders included authors of best-selling books and winners of prestigious fellowships ...
By Jennifer Schuessler The free expression organization PEN America has canceled its annual World Voices Festival after a wave of participants withdrew, spurred by a boycott campaign led by writer ...
His award was originally scheduled to be presented on Monday, April 29 along with the other prizes in PEN America's annual literary awards ceremony. But the event was canceled when nearly half of ...
Facing widespread unhappiness over its response to the Israel-Hamas war, the writers' group PEN America has called off its annual awards ceremony. Dozens of nominees had dropped out of the event ...
PEN America has canceled its prestigious 2024 awards ceremony after nearly half the writers nominated for a prize withdrew their work in protest of the organization’s stance on the war in Gaza.