PEN America named Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf as its permanent co-CEOs after a leadership transition.

After a 16-month search, the free speech group has chosen two longtime employees, Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf, as ...

PEN America withdraws support for Guy Hochman amid controversy over canceled performances and free speech concerns.

PEN America, a writers and free expression organization, led the public panel, titled “Free Expression and Academic Freedom: Where Do You Stand?” which took place at noon in Rudder Tower.

Panel discussed and weighed in on the ongoing debate over academic freedom across college campuses.

Authors are staging their own protest amid an extraordinary week of action against Israel’s occupation of Gaza. In solidarity with a free Palestine, a group of 29 writers and translators sent a letter ...

On Wednesday, PEN America, the writers advocacy organization currently in serious crisis because of its refusal to oppose the genocide in Gaza, suffered another blow to its prestige and credibility.

More writers have declined to participate in the writers advocacy organization PEN America’s events and refused PEN’s awards, or even consideration for such awards, because the organization ...

PEN America has cancelled its annual literary awards ceremony after nearly half of the writers and translators nominated withdrew their books from consideration. The awards will still be granted to ...

"What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives," says PEN America Eric Charbonneau/Getty; Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty; VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Book bans are sharply on the ...

On May 7, hundreds gathered at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village for Freedom to Write for Palestine, a gathering of writers who withdrew from PEN America's World Voices Festival and ...

Ruffin's new gig with PEN America comes after the White House Correspondents Association excluded her from its annual dinner. After the White House Correspondents Association axed Amber Ruffin from ...