Prominent literary organization PEN America has canceled its annual awards ceremony, which was due to be held next week, after 28 authors chose to withdraw their books from consideration.

Playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner told NPR he will donate the $25,000 purse that comes with the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award, for which he is this year's recipient.

PEN America has canceled its prestigious 2024 awards ceremony after nearly half the writers nominated for a prize withdrew their work in protest of the organization’s stance on the war in Gaza.

The move comes after PEN announced Monday that it would cancel its Literary Award ceremony. Last week, in the most recent and prominent protest, over two dozen authors and all but one author ...

The PEN Literary Awards are running out of authors to honor and facing a credibility problem among their peers. In a scathing rebuke of PEN America, 29 authors and translators have withdrawn from ...

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation has assumed the responsibility for administering the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel from PEN ...

Crown; One World; Farrar, Straus and Giroux The finalists for the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards are here. On April 11, PEN America announced the finalists for their prestigious literary awards.

At the PEN America Literary Awards, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman and others discussed the role A.I. could play in literature. By Anna Grace Lee On Thursday evening, more than 1,000 writers ...

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation has announced it is giving Winfrey its inaugural Literary Champion award, a lifetime achievement prize for contributions to literacy and for inspiring younger readers ...