PEN America Index of School Book Bans – 2023-2024
PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans provides a list of books banned in the 2023-2024 school year. PEN America found 10,046 instances of individual books banned, affecting 4,231 unique titles. The 2023-2024 banned book list is a searchable index of each documented book ban in the school year.
PEN Open Book Award - PEN America
The Open Book Award was created by PEN America’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities. Works of fiction, literary nonfiction, biography/memoir, poetry, and other …
The 11 Most Banned Books List 2024 - PEN America
2024年12月12日 · This is the list of the most banned books in the 2023-2024 school year, according to the PEN America Index of School Book Bans. Bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes , about the moments leading up to a school shooting, was the most frequently banned book, with 98 instances.
Prison Writing Committee - PEN America
Our PEN America Prison Writing Committee is a group of dedicated volunteers whose primary task, among other engagements, is mining over 1,200 entries per year to judge the annual Prison Writing Awards.
Banned in the USA: Beyond the Shelves - PEN America
2024年11月1日 · PEN America is conducting additional content analysis of the remaining 3,140 titles banned in this school year that were only banned once, to be released in 2025. It is important to note that even one instance of a book being banned is harmful to authors, students, educators, and librarians alike.
The History of PEN - PEN America
PEN (originally short for Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists) was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and international co-operation among writers everywhere, and to defend literature and free expression wherever they are threatened.
PEN America Alarmed by Trump’s Legal Assaults on Iowa …
2024年12月17日 · PEN America expressed deep concern today over President-elect Donald Trump’s pattern of filing baseless lawsuits against media organizations, including a lawsuit filed Monday against the Des Moines Register and its respected pollster J. Ann Selzer for alleged election interference and fraud, and a defamation case against ABC News that the ...
Lyle C. May | The PEN Ten - PEN America
5 天之前 · In this PEN Ten interview with Malcolm Tariq, senior manager of editorial projects for PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program, May gives insight to collaboration, his reading practices, and how he came into his craft as a journalist.
The Story of PEN: New Exhibition Shows History as Writers …
2024年11月14日 · A new exhibit – Freedom to Write, Freedom to Read: The Story of PEN, on display at the Harry Ransom Center in the University of Texas at Austin through Aug. 18, 2025 – highlights key moments that shaped the organization’s history and unwavering support of …
Winter 2024 Emerging Voices Workshop LA Cohort - PEN America
2024年12月6日 · PEN America welcomes the Winter 2024 Emerging Voices Workshop Cohort: Nefertiti Lovelace, KC Lehman, Rebecca Paredes, M. Anne Kala’i, Lane Michael Stanley, Ruth Rudnick, Yvonne Liu, LiXin (Jessica Winkler), Nicole Austin, Audrey Shipp, Lindsay Young, Shelby May, Sophie Hamel, Amanda Vandenberg, Uchechi Kalu.