Indie Lit Fair: A Reading
Join us for a reading from small presses directly across the park from Indie Lit Fair, in Garibaldi Plaza! You’ll hear from memoirist Grace Cho... Read More
Houses Divided: On Tomorrow’s Civil Wars
“Most Americans cannot imagine another civil war in their country. They assume our democracy is too resilient, too robust to devolve into conflict. But this... Read More
PEN Letters: A Centenary Celebration
Join us for a 100-year journey through archival letters, notes, and speeches featuring world-renowned writers as they transform an international dinner club into a global... Read More
Reframing the Narrative with Novelist Anna Enquist
Archives often replicate and preserve the biases of history: the narrow lenses that designate significance have led scores of famous men’s reputations to completely eclipse... Read More
Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers
In direct response to the invasion of Ukraine and other humanitarian and authoritarian crises unfolding globally, PEN America convenes a modern iteration of a historic... Read More
Writing for Justice and Sustainable Futures
How do first-person narratives capture nuances inherent in naming “justice” as part of “the criminal justice system?” Why must writers expose the heavy truths of... Read More
DREAMing Out Loud: Public Reading
From Venezuela to Russia, Japan to Mexico, Philippines to Nigeria, Guyana to Colombia, and beyond, our DREAMers will share stories of journeys toward hope, healing,... Read More
DREAMing on the Stage: Readings of Plays in Progress
From different corners of the earth, a group of writers have gathered to write epic plays about everything they know and everything they believe in.... Read More
Worker Writers School Public Reading
“Essential Workers” or “Frontline Workers” are terms that became part of our common language during the COVID-19 pandemic. Join members of New York City’s frontline... Read More
Double Visions: Aminatta Forna and Laila Lalami
In both of their recent essay collections, Windham Campbell Literature Prize winner Aminatta Forna and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami draw from their own lives... Read More