digital - English PEN https://www.englishpen.org/tag/digital/ Freedom to write, freedom to read Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:52:21 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.englishpen.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-english_pen_favicon-1-1-32x32.png digital - English PEN https://www.englishpen.org/tag/digital/ 32 32 Editorial: A Digital Salon https://www.englishpen.org/pen-transmissions/editorial-a-digital-salon/ Fri, 01 May 2020 13:00:03 +0000 https://www.englishpen.org/pen-transmissions/editorial-a-digital-salon/ The English PEN Literary Salon at the London Book Fair is a standout moment in our…

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]]> The English PEN Literary Salon at the London Book Fair is a standout moment in our calendar – a moment in which we share with the publishing community our mission of celebrating diverse literature and championing freedom of expression. The Salon is a platform on which writers – some emerging, others with long careers behind them – address pressing contemporary discussions. Year-on-year, we are thrilled and provoked by what emerges.

With the necessary cancellation of the 2020 London Book Fair, we resolved to create a new platform for these discussions. And so, this week, we present the Digital English PEN Literary Salon: five interviews on PEN Transmissions, published daily, featuring writers from the LBF programme.

In these pieces, you will encounter discussions on reading and writing queer black British experiences;  on asking what we can (and should) write; on placing marginalised voices at the centre of surreal stories; on being a woman writer writing ‘unlikeable’ women; and on timeliness, in all its senses.

When fisherfolk can’t go to sea, they mend their nets. We’re pleased to have fashioned a new platform for these conversations, despite the storm we’re weathering. We hope Transmissions readers enjoy the catches.

– Hannah Trevarthen (Events and Partnerships Manager) & Will Forrester (Editor).

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