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Today marks ten years since the arrest of Waleed Abu al-Khair, winner of the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize for a Writer of Courage.
We join colleagues around the world in continuing to call for his immediate & unconditional release. #FreeWaleed alqst.org/en/post/ten-ye…
We are thrilled to be partners with English PEN and Estate of Seamus Heaney in the new PEN Heaney Prize for poetry. Open for submissions now englishpen.org/prizes/pen-hea…
Therese Kieran John O'Donnell Celia de Fréine Lia Mills Padraig Hanratty moyra_donaldson Neil Hegarty Dublin UNESCO
Editors from the Mail, Guardian, Times and Telegraph united in an attempt to bolster an anti-SLAPP bill going through Parliament - also backed by George Greenwood Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.substack Bill Browder richard brooks and others - many with direct experience of SLAPPs pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/edit…
Writer Selahattin Demirtaş turns 51 today. This is the eighth birthday he spends behind bars. #Türkiye must abide by ECHR CEDH rulings and release him now. #FreeDemirtaş #SelahattinDemirtaş
'The memorisation of poems has become a yardstick by which I calibrate steadfastness.'
Today in #PENTransmissions , lisa minerva luxx • من النهر إلى البحر on poetry, memory, and breathing.
pentransmissions.com/2024/03/26/whe…
PEN International and PEN Centres worldwide remain deeply concerned by the dangerous prospect of #JulianAssange 's extradition to the #US going ahead after the #UK High Court adjourned his permission to appeal. Our statement: pen-international.org/news/julian-as…
#FreeAssange NOW #FreeAssange
The PEN International annual Case List is launched today - it makes for devastating, vital reading. Freedom of expression is under threat globally - human rights are being ignored & eroded. Please consider joining English PEN to support writers in times of risk & to fight for your rights
🚨🚨🚨There's just under a week remaining for literary translators to apply to become our third Translation Advisory Co-Chair, supporting and advising
English PEN's translation and international literature programme.
Please spread the word and apply!
englishpen.org/jobs/vacancy-t…
#Montenegro : Solidarity with PEN member Andrej Nikolaidis, who finds himself yet again harassed and smeared by pro-government supporters. Pressure, intimidation, and threats aimed at stifling independent voices must end at once: pen-international.org/news/montenegr…
Crnogorski PEN centar - Montenegrin PEN Center