PEN America · [email protected]

July 15, 2022 at 4:00 PM

PEN Points: Twitter, India, and the fight for the internet’s future

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July 9, 2022 at 4:00 PM

PEN America will never stop fighting

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July 8, 2022 at 10:30 PM

PEN Reads: Our new DREAMing Out Loud Anthology

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July 8, 2022 at 5:00 PM

PEN Points: Disinformation is another untouchable problem in Washington

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July 1, 2022 at 5:00 PM

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June 25, 2022 at 4:00 PM

PEN Reads: 100 years of PEN America

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June 24, 2022 at 5:29 PM

PEN Points: Protests erupt at Supreme Court after overturning of Roe v. Wade

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June 23, 2022 at 6:00 PM

Join PEN America's centenary campaign!

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June 17, 2022 at 7:29 PM

PEN Points: The fight to end ‘Cyberflashing’

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June 10, 2022 at 11:00 PM

PEN Reads: Announcing the 2022 Emerging Voices Fellows

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June 10, 2022 at 4:30 PM

PEN Points: DHS warns about new threats fueled by misinformation, abortion ruling

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June 3, 2022 at 4:30 PM

PEN Points: Anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theories fuel far-right threats to Pride celebrations

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May 27, 2022 at 7:00 PM

PEN Reads: Can the written word make a difference?

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May 27, 2022 at 4:29 PM

PEN Points: “Horrifying” conspiracy theories swirl around Texas shooting

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May 26, 2022 at 10:00 PM

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May 14, 2022 at 4:59 PM

Re: It's the last day of our World Voices Festival

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May 13, 2022 at 11:30 PM

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May 11, 2022 at 5:00 PM

Re: Your invitation to the World Voices Festival

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  PEN America · [email protected]

May 7, 2022 at 4:00 PM

You're invited: the World Voices Festival kicks off in just 4 days

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April 29, 2022 at 10:44 PM

PEN Reads: Countdown to World Voices Festival; Has Your Book Been Banned?

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April 16, 2022 at 2:00 PM

PEN Reads: World Voices Festival tickets on sale now

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April 13, 2022 at 10:29 PM

Brutal crackdowns on writers and intellectuals

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April 6, 2022 at 1:14 AM

The World Voices Festival is BACK

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April 2, 2022 at 2:29 PM

PEN Reads: You Are A Writer - New Events

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April 1, 2022 at 11:00 PM

Discourse—and more—in danger

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March 18, 2022 at 10:44 PM

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March 16, 2022 at 5:59 PM

The 2022 World Voices Festival is coming!

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March 5, 2022 at 1:59 PM

Writers in Ukraine need your help

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March 4, 2022 at 11:59 PM

PEN Reads: The Winners of the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards

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March 1, 2022 at 7:00 PM

And the winners are...

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February 25, 2022 at 9:59 PM

You're invited: Help us celebrate the best books of the year

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February 18, 2022 at 10:59 PM

PEN Reads: Winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize

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February 12, 2022 at 7:59 PM

RE: Get your tickets to "the Oscars for books"

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February 8, 2022 at 10:00 PM

Afghan artists are in peril

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February 4, 2022 at 11:29 PM

PEN Reads: Tickets on sale for the 2022 Literary Awards Ceremony

PEN Reads: Tickets on sale for the 2022 Literary Awards Ceremony Plus: Announcing the 2022 Writing as Activism Fellows View this email in your browser BUY TICKETS NOW: 2022 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony Monday 2/28 | 8pm ET…

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February 3, 2022 at 4:29 PM

Join us and Seth Meyers at PEN America’s Literary Awards Ceremony

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January 27, 2022 at 11:14 PM

A Tennessee school board just voted to ban Maus

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January 21, 2022 at 11:00 PM

PEN Reads: PEN Out Loud, save the date for our Awards Ceremony

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January 11, 2022 at 7:00 PM

Released today: The Sentences That Create Us

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January 10, 2022 at 7:30 PM

PEN America mourns the death of 2021 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write honoree Baktash Abtin

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January 7, 2022 at 10:59 PM

PEN Reads: Emerging Voices Fellowship Applications Open Now

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December 31, 2021 at 10:59 PM

Give free speech a fighting chance in 2022

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  Ayad Akhtar, PEN America · [email protected]

December 31, 2021 at 4:35 PM

Free speech on the firing line

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December 31, 2021 at 12:59 AM

RE: Your gift sends a message to persecuted writers

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December 30, 2021 at 4:14 PM

Your gift sends a message to persecuted writers

Your gift sends a message to persecuted writers Help us reach writers at risk View this email in your browser Dear Friend,  Summer Lopez here at PEN America. I’m writing with a quick request. Authoritarian leaders typically use…

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  Salman Rushdie, PEN America · [email protected]

December 30, 2021 at 2:29 AM

RE: PEN America is ready to fight

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December 29, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Fighting censorship is the fight for our future

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  Henry Louis Gates Jr., PEN America · [email protected]

December 28, 2021 at 12:59 AM

There is no freedom without the freedom to write

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  Susan Choi, PEN America · [email protected]

December 26, 2021 at 10:59 PM

Why we need your support, Friend

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  Susan Choi, PEN America · [email protected]

December 26, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Writers need your help, Friend

Writers need your help, *|FNAME|* Why we need your support View this email in your browser Dear Friend— One of the great privileges of being part of a one-hundred-year-old organization like PEN America is knowing that our work …

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