https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/
Jan 22, 2026 - PEN America's report on school book bans offers the most comprehensive look at banned books in the 2021–22 school year, with counting more than 2,500 bans.
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https://pen.org/the-history-of-pen/
Dec 11, 2024 - PEN America celebrated its centenary in 2022. What began in the aftermath of World War I as an international literary club with the intent of providing...
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https://pen.org/blog-posts/
Mar 24, 2025 - Banned Books Campus Free Speech Disinformation Educational Censorship Facts Forward Global Free Expression Member Spotlight PEN America Speaks The PEN Ten
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https://deadline.com/2023/08/writers-strike-pen-america-financial-aid-1235533091/
Aug 31, 2023 - PEN America, the 101-year-old organization dedicated to "the freedom to write,” is offering grants to help early-career screenwriters during the writers...
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https://pen.org/report/cover-to-cover/
Feb 28, 2025 - PEN America sought to further understand the impacts of this censorship – the identities and genres being erased from public schools.
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https://pen.org/ashley-hope-perez-on-how-book-bans-are-failing-our-children/
Sep 17, 2025 - For Banned Book Week, PEN America interviews Ashley Hope Pérez, author of Out of Darkness, which has been banned 23 times in the 2021-2022 school year.
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https://pen.org/pen-america-speaks-november-24/
Nov 26, 2025 - PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America...
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https://pen.org/banned-words-list/
Dec 22, 2025 - Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.
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https://pen.org/press-release/advocates-alarmed-over-alabama-trans-books-in-libraries-ban/
Nov 21, 2025 - Read Freely Alabama, Alabama Transgender Rights Action Coalition, PEN America, EveryLibrary, Authors Against Book Bans, National Coalition Against Censorship,...
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https://pen.org/online-abuse-digital-safety/
Oct 16, 2025 - Online abuse—from violent threats and hateful slurs to sexual harassment and doxing—poses a direct and pressing threat to free expression.
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https://pen.org/banned-books-week/
Oct 6, 2025 - Banned Books Week is Oct. 5-11, 2025. Learn more about book bans and censorship to get involved during Banned Books Week 2025.
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https://pen.org/
Aug 26, 2024 - PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide.
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https://pen.org/us-writers-aid-initiative/
Oct 14, 2025 - PEN America’s U.S. Writers Aid Initiative offers grants for writers in the United States facing acute financial need following an emergency situation.
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https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-classrooms/
Sep 10, 2024 - In 2022, proposed educational gag orders have increased 250 percent compared to 2021. This can be summarized in a single word: escalation.
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https://pen.org/report/the-normalization-of-book-banning/
Nov 18, 2025 - This report offers a window into the complex and extensive climate of censorship between July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
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https://pen.org/membership/pen-america-writers-schools-committee/
Dec 11, 2024 - Writers in the Schools places PEN America Members in New York City schools that serve students from under-resourced communities.
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https://pen.org/event/pen-dau-reading-2025/
Dec 2, 2025 - Ten winners of the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers will read selections from their award-winning stories.
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https://pen.org/notes-on-critical-race-theory/
Mar 3, 2025 - Artist and PEN America Trustee Greg Pardlo writes that Critical Race Theory is "a periodizing frame for our historical moment."
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https://pen.org/profile/jeremy-c-young/
Mar 11, 2025 - Jeremy C. Young is the director of state and higher education policy at PEN America.
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https://pen.org/gala/
Dec 2, 2025 - The PEN America Literary Gala honors those who embody PEN America’s mission to celebrate, champion, and defend freedom of expression
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https://pen.org/profile/henry-hicks/
Jul 18, 2025 - Henry Hicks IV (he/him) is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and organizer. Prior to joining PEN America, Henry has organized with Relentless to build...
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https://pen.org/press-release/texas-school-district-strikes-more-books-from-reading-lists/
May 29, 2024 - A Texas school district announced this week that it would remove or suspend nine books from its secondary school book club readings lists.
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https://pen.org/the-pen-ten-an-interview-with-cleyvis-natera/
Sep 17, 2025 - In this PEN Ten interview, we spoke with Cleyvis Natera, author of Neruda on the Park (Ballantine Books 2022).
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https://pen.org/disinformation/
Mar 5, 2025 - It’s 2025, and disinformation is in the news once again. This threat to our democracy comes at a time when social media platforms have scaled back their...
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https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/woman-discovers-childhood-pen-pal-doctor-delivered-2-128779638
Dec 31, 2025 - Two Pennsylvania women were shocked to find out recently that they were childhood pen pals over 30 years ago.
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https://pen.org/board-of-trustees/
Oct 14, 2025 - The PEN America Board of Trustees provide leadership, oversight and visioning for the literary organization.
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https://pen.org/annual-literary-awards-ceremony/
May 19, 2025 - Since 1963, PEN America has honored exceptional literary work across literary genres. Each year we gather in New York City to honor winners of several awards.
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https://pen.org/new-york-office/
Mar 4, 2025 - Who We Are PEN America was founded in New York City in 1922, and the city’s lively literary community remains the beating heart of the organization. PEN...
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https://pen.org/report/educational-gag-orders/
Nov 5, 2024 - This report details the alarming spread of legislative efforts in 2021 to constrict education related to race, gender, and American history.
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https://pen.org/disinformation/pen-americas-guide-for-combating-protest-disinformation/
Jan 21, 2025 - Disinformation about protests continues to circulate. Here are a few steps you can take to evaluate stories that are blowing up your feed.
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https://pen.org/campus-free-speech/
Dec 8, 2025 - These principles undergird all of PEN America’s Campus Free Speech Guide. As you use this guide, you will find additional principles and recommendations that...
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https://pen.org/profile/james-tager/
Feb 11, 2025 - James Tager, JD, is the former Director of Research at PEN America.
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https://pen.org/report/peer-support/
Oct 17, 2024 - We see industry-wide peer support as an especially important component of reducing the harms of online abuse in the journalism industry.
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https://pen.org/press-release/plato-has-been-censored-what-next/
Jan 7, 2026 - PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender
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https://pen.org/los-angeles-office/
Sep 19, 2025 - Response to the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires PEN America Los Angeles encourages all writers and artists to visit the Los Angeles County Arts and Culture Digital...
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https://pen.org/event/kiran-desai-pen-out-loud/
Nov 24, 2025 - Author Kiran Desai joins PEN Out Loud to discuss her new Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Loneliness Of Sonia And Sunny.
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https://pen.org/writers-at-risk-advocacy/
Apr 24, 2025 - The PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center was created to expand PEN America’s advocacy on behalf of writers at risk globally.
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https://pen.org/report/how-to-build-community-level-resilience-against-disinformation/
May 22, 2025 - Disinformation, and the ability to counter it, is intertwined with factors including trust, polarization, economic conflict, social isolation, prejudice, and...
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https://pen.org/profile/shannon-jankowski/
Jun 7, 2024 - Shannon Jankowski is the program director of Journalism and Disinformation at PEN America. Before joining PEN, she was a staff attorney at the Reporters...
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https://pen.org/us-issues/
Mar 5, 2025 - Book Bans Books are under profound attack in the United States. Since the fall of 2021, PEN America has counted more than 10,000 book bans in public schools....
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https://pen.org/report/freedom-to-write-index-2024/
May 29, 2025 - The number of writers jailed reached a new high, with at least 375 behind bars in 40 countries during 2024, compared to 339 in 2023.
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https://penmelbourne.org/pen-america-condemns-transnational-repression-of-chinese-political-cartoonist-badiucao-in-poland/
Jun 13, 2023 - Home PEN America Condemns Transnational Repression of Chinese Political Cartoonist Badiucao in Poland PEN America Condemns Transnational Repression of
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https://pen.org/washington-dc-office/
Apr 14, 2025 - PEN America’s Washington, D.C. office was established in 2017, expanding the organization’s footprint and equipping it to advance free expression policy...
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https://pen.org/press-release/alarm-over-reported-deportation-of-nicaraguan-musician-leonardo-canales/
May 29, 2024 - PEN America is deeply alarmed by Nicaragua’s reported deportation of musician and music producer Leonardo Canales to Costa Rica, and condemns the ongoing...
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https://pen.org/membership/
Nov 25, 2025 - Our strength is our Membership—a community of writers and other literary professionals, and an even larger network of devoted readers and supporters.
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https://pen.org/literary-awards/
Nov 18, 2025 - The PEN America Literary Awards honor outstanding voices in translation, fiction, poetry, science, essay, biography, children’s lit, & drama.
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https://kanopi.com/case-study/pen-america/
Nov 26, 2025 - A modernized user experience brings PEN America’s story to life with clear pathways and powerful storytelling.
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https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-campuses-25-web-of-control/
Jan 17, 2026 - Government censorship of free speech and academic freedom has reached unprecedented heights on U.S. campuses as lawmakers extend a web of political and...
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https://pen.org/profile/jonathan-friedman/
Nov 18, 2025 - Jonathan Friedman, Ph.D., is the Sy Syms managing director of U.S. free expression programs at PEN America.
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https://pen.org/membership/?ms=joinbuttonmainmenu
Jan 12, 2026 - PEN America Membership is a community of writers and literary professionals, and an even larger network of devoted readers and supporters.
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https://pen.org/shop-pen-america-originals/
Nov 18, 2025 - Show your support for PEN America by buying exclusive merchandise that helps support to freedom to write.
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https://www.npr.org/2023/09/21/1200725104/book-bans-school-pen-america
Sep 21, 2023 - The number of bans and restrictions in the U.S. rose 33% in the last school year, according the the report. Florida had more bans than any other state.
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https://pen.org/report/trump-administration-100-days/
Apr 30, 2025 - No federal administration has moved as swiftly to exert broad new controls over what people can say, read, learn, research, and think.
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https://pen.org/report/hard-news-journalists-and-the-threat-of-disinformation/
Jul 2, 2024 - Never before have journalists had to work in the face of such an extreme surge of falsehoods and manipulations supercharged by algorithms and nefarious actors,...
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https://pen.org/best-books-of-2025/
Nov 26, 2025 - What are the best books of 2025? We looked at the 2025 best book lists to find the best of the best, including "Audition," by Katie Kitamura.
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https://penmelbourne.org/pen-melbourne-supports-pen-international-and-pen-americas-statements-on-the-israel-opt-war/
Apr 6, 2024 - PEN Melbourne supports PEN International and PEN America's statements on the Israel/OPT war. In this dreadful time of war, PEN Melbourne maintains that
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https://campusfreespeechguide.pen.org/resource/how-to-support-faculty-and-staff-who-experience-online-harassment/
This guidance is based on advice contained in PEN America’s Online Harassment Field Manual. External Resources
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https://www.bonfire.com/org/pen-american-center-133447888/
Help support PEN America and their cause by supporting one of their active fundraising campaigns or launching your own fundraiser on their behalf.
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https://pen.org/youngpatrons/
Nov 11, 2025 - The PEN America Young Patrons are supporters in their 20s and 30s who care deeply about PEN America’s mission.
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https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2022/
Feb 28, 2025 - This list of banned books in 2022 includes the 10 most banned books in the 2021-2022 school year. The banned book list includes Gender Queer and The Bluest Eye.
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https://pen.org/book-bans/
Jan 29, 2026 - PEN America found more than 10,000 book bans in the 2023-2024 school year, more than double the banned books in the previous year.
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https://pen.org/for-educational-gag-orders-the-vagueness-is-the-point/
Feb 6, 2025 - PEN America finds that educational gag orders are being written in purposefully vague ways that make teaching difficult and threaten free expression in the...
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https://pen.org/educational-censorship/
Mar 11, 2025 - PEN America is a national leader in fighting government censorship in education.
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https://news.emory.edu/stories/2025/05/er_kali_gross_pen_award_28-05-2025/story.html
Kali Gross, Emory’s National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of African American Studies, received one of PEN America’s 13 awards for literary...
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https://pen.org/press-release/quiet-rewrite-of-barnard-college-policy-appears-to-be-an-effort-to-suppress-speech/
Oct 9, 2024 - The decision by Barnard College to hastily rewrite policy to prohibit departments from posting “political statements” appears to be an effort to suppress...
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https://pen.org/florida-office/
Aug 8, 2025 - Who We Are PEN America’s Florida office was established in Miami in 2023 to address the rampant free expression infringements in Florida. The Florida office...
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https://pen.org/archived-membership/gifting-pen-membership/
Mar 5, 2025 - Support PEN America and the Writer in Your Life:Defend the Freedom to Read, Write, Speak and Imagine PEN America Membership is the perfect gift for the writer,...
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https://deadline.com/2023/05/ted-sarandos-netflix-pen-america-gala-wga-strike-1235362673/
May 11, 2023 - The Nexflix co-CEO said he didn't want to distract from the group's big night and important work.
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https://pen.org/report/all-that-is-lost/
Sep 18, 2025 - The war has inflicted a catastrophic blow to Gaza’s cultural life and heritage, erasing records of Palestinian history that go back hundreds of years.
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https://pen.org/report/the-censorship-horizon/
Jan 16, 2025 - The creation and display of art is deeply entwined with the U.S.’s most fraught cultural and political debates.
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https://pen.org/report/the-blueprint-state/
Jun 3, 2025 - A wave of education laws in Florida has had a detrimental impact on the state’s schools, chilling the climate for teaching and learning.
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https://pen.org/the-writers-room/
Oct 6, 2025 - PEN America is an organization of writers, translators, editors, publishing professionals, and like-minded lovers of the written word.
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https://pen.org/pen-america-endorses-the-magna-charta-universitatum-2020/
Oct 15, 2024 - The MCU emphasizes the importance of university autonomy from direct political control, a crucial requirement for free expression in a democratic society.
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https://pen.org/online-abuse-digital-safety/what-to-do-if-youve-been-doxed-or-placed-on-a-watchlist/
Oct 2, 2025 - We map out steps you can take right away, and steps you can take to build resilience longer term against doxing.
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https://pen.org/roe-v-rutherford-county-board-of-education/
Sep 4, 2025 - Ensuring that students have access to books on a wide range of topics and a diversity of viewpoints is a core function of public education.
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https://pen.org/disinformation/pen-america-guide-covid-19-disinformation/
Jan 21, 2025 - False stories about the coronavirus are continuing to circulate. Here are a few steps you can take to evaluate news stories that are blowing up your feed.
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https://pen.org/event/sigrid-nunez-authors-evenings/
Aug 28, 2025 - Join us for an intimate evening with Sigrid Nunez, acclaimed author of The Friend, as we celebrate her latest novel, The Vulnerables.
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https://pen.org/open-letter-school-board-placentia-yorba-linda-unified-school-district/
Jul 12, 2024 - PEN America urges the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District not to pass a “Resolution Opposing the Teaching of Critical Race Theory.”
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https://pen.org/literary-grants/
Dec 2, 2025 - PEN America confers distinct literary grants each year to support writers and works-in-progress in diverse genres.
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