FREEDOM TO WRITE FREEDOM TO READ
English PEN is the founding centre of a global literary network. We work to defend and promote freedom of expression, and to remove barriers to literature.
English PEN is the founding centre of a global literary network. We work to defend and promote freedom of expression, and to remove barriers to literature.
English PEN has been at the forefront of the campaign, in partnership with the Howard League for Penal Reform, calling for lifting restrictions on families and friends sending books to their loved ones in prison. The policy, which was first introduced in November 2013 by the then Secretary of State for Justice Chris Grayling as
On 27 April 2015, writer and activist Enoh Meyomesse was finally released from Kondengui Prison in Yaoundé, after almost three and a half years. He has since sent the following message to PEN: je n’ai pas de mots suffisamment forts pour vous remercier pour toute l’aide que vous n’avez cessé de m’apporter depuis trois ans,
Read our report and listen to audio from our event launching our fourth prison writing anthology
On 23 April, English PEN will be joining thousands of individuals, organisations and institutions across the UK to celebrate the fifth year of World Book Night and to give books to those that need them the most. To mark World Book Night 2015, we will once again be sending books to writers at risk around the
Meg Rosoff, judge of the English PEN Prison Writing Competition 2015, joins us to celebrate the launch of this year’s pamphlet of winning and commended entries