[Grants] PEN Translates – open for submissions

English PEN is now accepting submissions to its PEN Translates! programme which offers grants for translation. Launched in 2012, this unique new fund ...

Watch: PEN Literary Cafe at the London Book Fair 2013

If you missed our PEN Literary Cafe at London Book Fair last month, you can watch some of the highlights here. Featuring Will Self, Lionel Shriver, Wi ...

First Class Post

As part of Islington Word 2013, English PEN is connecting up classrooms in Islington with classrooms in Africa, via our colleagues at Malawian PEN, Za ...

Highlights from the First Editions, Second Thoughts auction

Last night, English PEN was at Sotheby’s for our fundraising auction First Editions, Second Thoughts.  Fifty authors generously annotated a firs ...

Turning up the volume

Yasmine El Rashidi, contributor to the PEN-award-winning title Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus, tells PEN Atlas about growing up ...