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PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

Facing Widespread Criticism, PEN America Responds

In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

“It’s easy to remain clueless about how the world works for most people.”

Exclusive: Read a new poem by National Book Award finalist Joan Wickersham.

Then and Now: How the AIDS Crisis Changed Queer Storytelling

Timothy Schaffert in Conversation With Eric Schnall

Paul Yoon has won this year’s Story Prize for The Hive and the Honey.

Here are the winners of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards.

“The Act of Writing is a Haunting Experience.” A Roundtable on Community, Craft, and Ghosts

Jenny Irish Talks with Her Former Students, Writers Kalani Pickhart, Winslow Schmelling, Christina D’Antoni, and Arya Naidu

Naomi Klein, Hisham Matar, Maaza Mengiste and More Have Withdrawn From the PEN World Voices Festival

“In the context of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, we believe that PEN America has betrayed the organization’s professed commitment to peace and equality for all.”

Here’s the longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize.

Literary Hub is Seeking a Regular, Part-Time Writer

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