by Sarah Lawson | Nov 27, 2024
Our new Women Writers Committee Chair Judyth Hill (San Miguel PEN) opened the meeting with an eloquent introduction of the Empty Chair. Narges Mohammadi, the winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, has been sentenced to 30 or more years in prison in Iran, and has been...
by Sharon Steeber | Nov 4, 2024
The eve of the PEN International Annual Congress, this time in Oxford, was chilly and sodden. I arrived at night. Flood alerts lighted up my phone. The theme of the conference, “Writers in a World at War,” and the dark and desolate plaza where the coach from...
