Pen American Center Inc

Literary awards:since 1963, the pen america literary awards have honored many of the most outstanding voices in literature across diverse genres, including fiction, poetry, science writing, essays, biography, children's literature, translation, and drama. With the help of our partners, pen america confers over 20 distinct awards, fellowships, grants, and prizes each year, awarding over $300,000 to writers and translators.

Pen world voices festival: pen world voices is america's premier international literary festival, attracting the best-known writers from across the globe. Since its founding, the festival has presented more than 1,800 writers and artists from 118 countries speaking 56 languages in venues across new york city and los angeles in a four day series of literary events with a human rights focus. The festival was founded by salman rushdie, esther allen and michael roberts in the aftermath of september 11th, 2001, with the aim of broadening channels of dialogue between the united states and the world- a mission that, today, has never been more relevant. (continued on schedule o)the 20th anniversary of the united states leading international literary festival was cancelled two weeks before the festival's scheduled start date. Some festival programs did occur without being named under the festival umbrella. Given the timing of the cancellation significant non-refundable costs were incurred including travel booked and venue rentals.

Public programs; content and outreach; membership; branches; prison writing; pen america journal; writers fund.