Helping us to protect freedom of expression
The support of our supporters and partners is vital for sustaining English PEN’s mission to promote the freedom to write and the freedom to read in the UK and around the world. English PEN is a UK registered charity #1125610.
PEN Patrons
Alan Leibowitz & Barbara Weiss
Deborah Moggach
Steven Murphy
Constantine Partasides KC & Dr Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Sigrid Rausing
Francesca Simon
Our Project Partners
From venues and festivals to publishers and philanthropists, we’re proud to have worked with a wide range of partners on delivering our programmes and projects. Recent partners include:
Amnesty International
Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society
Bath Festival
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Bodleian Libraries
Book Aid International
Booker Prize Foundation
Bradford Literature Festival
British Council
British Library
Brixton Review of Books
Burnley Words Festival
Faber
FairSquare
Frontline Club
Goethe-Institut London
Hay Festival
Human Rights Watch
Institut Français
National Centre for Writing
New Writing North
Norfolk Schools of Sanctuary
Norman Trust
Open Society Foundations
Society of Authors
Shubbak
Southbank Centre
The Writing Squad
University of Exeter
“English PEN has been a rallying point and a voice for free thought and the free transmission of ideas across borders without censorship or threat for almost a century. Let us support PEN and its work now and for always.”
Stephen Fry