A conversation will traverse three countries to explore the most fundamental relationship of all: mother and child. Mother Dearest: Understanding our Mothers All PEN World Voices Festival tickets are non-refundable. Please confirm the time and location of your event before finalizing your purchase. As much as we are shaped by mothers, they too are shaped […]
Examine how life online has devolved and ask whether a better future online might still be possible. Techidemic All PEN World Voices Festival tickets are non-refundable. Please confirm the time and location of your event before finalizing your purchase. Once, the internet and social media platforms promised connection and community. Today, that promise has been […]
Explore how Palestinian writers reclaim and preserve histories of dispossession, memory, and resistance.Narrating Palestine: Family, History, and DisplacementThis is a free event, but registration is required.Who gets to tell the story of Palestine? For decades, Palestinian writers, historians, and journalists have worked to recover suppressed histories and share narratives of dispossession and exile.In Tareq Baconi’s […]
A conversation on how surveillance, climate crisis, and inequality shape our most intimate lives.Dystopia Gets Personal: Laila Lalami & Megha MajumdarAll PEN World Voices Festival tickets are non-refundable. Please confirm the time and location of your event before finalizing your purchase.A woman is incarcerated indefinitely because an algorithm predicts she might be a threat. A […]
A conversation with three novelists whose books look at the risks and possibilities of protest, and life under repressive governments.Protest Novels: Repression, Dissent, and ResistanceThis is a free event, but registration is required.What can novels tell us about the confrontation between freedom and autocracy? What does heroism look like in our daily lives—at home and […]
A conversation on the craft of using humor to take on life's messiest moments.Laughing Through It: Dark Humor and the NovelThis is a free event, but registration is required.Writing a funny novel might be the hardest trick in fiction, but these writers make it look easy. Join Katie Yee and Benedict Nguyễn for a discussion […]
PEN America World Voices Festival closing night event!Who Belongs? Stories Against a Narrowing WorldAll PEN World Voices Festival tickets are non-refundable. Please confirm the time and location of your event before finalizing your purchase.Globally, political and cultural forces are aligning to narrowly define national identities. Surging book bans, the outlawing of languages, the erasure of […]