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[CANCELED] Margaret Atwood, Roxane Gay, and Jia Tolentino with Rebecca Traister
Rebecca Traister, Jia Tolentino, Margaret Atwood, Roxane Gay
Panel Discussion
04 May 2020
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Town Hall
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[CANCELED] Call Me a Sinner: Four Russian Poets on Queer & Feminist Liberation
Lolita Agamalova, Oksana Vasyakina, Alina Pleskova, Gala Mukomolova
Performance
04 May 2020
8:00 pm-9:30 pm
Parish Hall
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[CANCELED] Hear “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee” with David Treuer
David Treuer
Author’s Talk
05 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
The Brooklyn Historical Society
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[CANCELED] The Art of the Debut
Brandon Taylor, Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Conversation
05 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
SoHo Playhouse
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[CANCELED] Ishmael Beah Speaks with Alexis Okeowo
Alexis Okeowo, Ishmael Beah
Interview
05 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
The Center for Fiction
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[CANCELED] Monuments of Migration: A Public Reading of Refugee Stories
Outdoor Event
06 May 2020
6:30 pm-7:30 pm
Madison Square Park
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[CANCELED] Freedom Finds a Rhythm: Ben Okri, with Yacouba Sissoko on Kora
Yacouba Sissoko, Anderson Tepper, Ben Okri
Concert
06 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
The Center for Fiction
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[CANCELED] Whose Truths? Translation as a Collaborative Act
Jeremy Tiang, Chen Si'an, Kristín Eiríksdóttir, Larissa Kyzer
Panel Discussion
06 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Downtown Art
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[CANCELED] Myths of Innocence
Andrés Barba, Sara Mesa
Conversation
06 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
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[CANCELED] Radical Poetry: Danez Smith and Jamila Woods
Jamila Woods, Danez Smith
Conversation
06 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
The Greene Space at WNYC
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[CANCELED] Jenny Slate Surprises Us
Hunter Harris, Jenny Slate
Interview
06 May 2020
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
The Auditorium at Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
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[CANCELED] The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Author’s Talk
06 May 2020
8:00 pm-9:30 pm
The Cooper Union
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[CANCELED] PEN Lounge with Host Mahogany L. Browne
Porsha Olayiwola, Roya Marsh, Mahogany L. Browne, Jamila Woods, Danez Smith
Concert
06 May 2020
9:30 pm-10:30 pm
SubCulture
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[CANCELED] Healing Hard Feelings with Emily X. R. Pan and Adam Silvera
Emily X. R. Pan, Adam Silvera
Conversation
07 May 2020
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Symphony Space
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[CANCELED] Resonances: Writers on the Classics
Esther Allen, Petina Gappah, Tomica Bajsić, Carles Torner, Jennifer Clement
Reading
07 May 2020
6:00 pm-7:00 pm
Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College
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[CANCELED] The Westbeth Literary Quest
Abdellah Taïa, Elisabeth Åsbrink, Nicolas Mathieu, Andrés Barba, Sara Mesa, Szczepan Twardoch, Peter Stamm, Chen Si'an, Kristín Eiríksdóttir, Maja Lunde
Performance
07 May 2020
6:30 pm-9:30 pm
Westbeth Center for the Arts
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[CANCELED] The Last Archive with Jill Lepore
Jacob Weisberg, Jill Lepore
Interview
07 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Symphony Space
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[CANCELED] Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson
Author’s Talk
07 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
The Auditorium at Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
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[CANCELED] The New Salon: Writers in Conversation with Lydia Davis
Darin Strauss, Uzodinma Iweala, Lydia Davis
Conversation
07 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
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[CANCELED] Fighting Words: Language in Times of Tyranny
Elif Shafak, Mieko Kawakami, John Freeman
Panel Discussion
07 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
The Center for Fiction
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[CANCELED] Unsettled Histories
Oksana Zabuzhko, Hari Kunzru, Aleksandar Hemon
Panel Discussion
07 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
SubCulture
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[CANCELED] Jeremy O. Harris and Lynn Nottage in Conversation
Jeremy O. Harris, Lynn Nottage
Conversation
07 May 2020
8:00 pm-9:30 pm
Symphony Space
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[CANCELED] PEN Lounge with Host Tommy Pico
Angel Nafis, Tommy Pico, Adam Falkner, Miles A.M. Collins-Sibley, Ananda Naima González
Performance
07 May 2020
9:30 pm-10:30 pm
SubCulture
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[CANCELED] Surviving Fascism Then and Now
Elisabeth Åsbrink, Patricio Pron, Szczepan Twardoch
Panel Discussion
08 May 2020
6:00 pm-7:00 pm
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[CANCELED] Vida Americana: Yuri Herrera and Fernanda Melchor in Conversation
Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor
Conversation
08 May 2020
6:30 pm-8:00 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
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[CANCELED] Istanbul: Where Truth Meets Trouble
Elif Shafak, Burhan Sönmez
Conversation
08 May 2020
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
SubCulture
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[CANCELED] Translation Slam
Karen Emmerich, Joshua L. Freeman, Tahir Hamut Izgil, Mutallip Anwar, Genya Turovskaya, Elina Alter, Bela Shayevich, Oksana Vasyakina
Conversation
08 May 2020
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
The Greene Space at WNYC
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[CANCELED] The Magic of Reading and Writing YA with Emily X. R. Pan & Nova Ren Suma
Emily X. R. Pan
Conversation
Book Culture LIC
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[CANCELED] Story Time with Kevin Noble Maillard
Kevin Noble Maillard
Children's Story Time
09 May 2020
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Books Are Magic
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[CANCELED] Story Time with Isaac Fitzgerald

[CANCELED] Story Time with Isaac Fitzgerald
Isaac Fitzgerald
Children's Story Time
09 May 2020
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Books of Wonder
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[CANCELED] Good (Grief!) Government: How to Tell Kids When Democracy Goes Right and Wrong
Floyd Cooper, Andrea Balis, Elizabeth Levy, Fatima Shaik, Amy Nathan
Panel Discussion
09 May 2020
1:30 pm-3:00 pm
Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
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[CANCELED] Chronicles of the Apocalypse: Writing on Climate Change
Emily Raboteau, Terry Tempest Williams, Maja Lunde, Amitav Ghosh
Conversation
09 May 2020
2:30 pm-4:00 pm
The Center for Architecture
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[CANCELED] Cry, the Beloved Country
Oksana Zabuzhko, Sayed Kashua, Patricio Pron, Burhan Sönmez, Tatiana Voltskaya, Ben Okri
Performance
09 May 2020
4:00 pm-5:30 pm
Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
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[CANCELED] Unsung Voices
Abdellah Taïa, María Fernanda Ampuero, Nicolas Mathieu, Petina Gappah
Panel Discussion
09 May 2020
4:30 pm-6:00 pm
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
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[CANCELED] Words and Music by Zadie Smith, Tara Westover, Suleika Jaouad, and Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste, Tara Westover, Suleika Jaouad, Zadie Smith
Concert
09 May 2020
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
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[CANCELED] #LoveRiot with Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste
Concert
09 May 2020
9:15 pm - 10:00 pm
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
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The live events of the 2020 World Voices Festival have been canceled due to concerns about the safety of participants and audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In early May, we launched the 2020 digital World Voices Festival at pen.org/worldvoicesdigital. This ongoing digital version of the Festival includes a suite of podcasts, videos, interviews, and musical playlists, with live events and other features to be rolled out over the coming weeks. We hope this digital content brings you joy during a time of uncertainty.

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook (@PENWorldVoices) for updates about future PEN World Voices Festival programming.