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  • Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Real: An Interview with Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja
    February 19, 2026

    Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Real: An Interview with Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja

    Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja on fascism, femicide, and ghosts.

  • Knowing Is a Kind of Pain: An Interview with Vaddey Ratner
    January 29, 2026

    Knowing Is a Kind of Pain: An Interview with Vaddey Ratner

    Vaddey Ratner on memory, narrative history, and storytelling as a means of survival.

  • Three Years of Solitude
    May 13, 2021

    Three Years of Solitude

    Suad Aldarra’s commission for the 2021 Cúirt International Festival of Literature, part of the PEN x Common Currency residency.

  • Those Riding Shotgun
    May 6, 2021

    Those Riding Shotgun

    Nadine Anne Hura (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) on climate, making time, and making people listen.

  • Editorial: Pasifika Voices
    May 6, 2021

    Editorial: Pasifika Voices

    Our editorial on forthcoming work in PEN Transmissions.

  • Decolonial Feminisms: An Interview with Françoise Vergès
    April 30, 2021

    Decolonial Feminisms: An Interview with Françoise Vergès

    Françoise Vergès discusses decolonial feminism, free expression, Reunion and white feminism.

  • Writers’ Contributions to the History of Ideas about Rural England and the Colonial Countryside
    April 21, 2021

    Writers’ Contributions to the History of Ideas about Rural England and the Colonial Countryside

    Corinne Fowler on how writers and writing explore the colonial histories of the English countryside.

  • Why We Choose not to See the Old
    April 14, 2021

    Why We Choose not to See the Old

    Dulce Maria Cardoso on ageing. Translated by Ángel Gurría-Quintana.

  • Once Again Our Democracy Is at Stake: Illustrating Orwell
    March 30, 2021

    Once Again Our Democracy Is at Stake: Illustrating Orwell

    Fido Nesti on adapting Nineteen Eighty-Four into a graphic novel in the shadow of Brazilian populism.

  • Translating Emergencies
    March 16, 2021

    Translating Emergencies

    Sophie Lewis on translating Noémi Lefebvre.

  • Spicy’s Story
    March 12, 2021

    Spicy’s Story

    Omid Tofighian and Behrouz Boochani tell the story of Bangladeshi refugee Spicy – across borders, seas and prisons.

  • Working Masks
    March 2, 2021

    Working Masks

    Kikuko Tsumura on making masks work. Translated by Polly Barton.

  • Memories of the Fires
    February 26, 2021

    Memories of the Fires

    El Salvador’s Claudia Hernández on war, women, and burning. Translated by Julia Sanches.

  • Lest Writers Become Accountants: An Interview with Mauro Javier Cárdenas
    February 16, 2021

    Lest Writers Become Accountants: An Interview with Mauro Javier Cárdenas

    Ecuadorean Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses radical grammar, Spanish, and US politics.

  • For Uncle Milton
    February 9, 2021

    For Uncle Milton

    Robert Jones, Jr. on discovering he was not the only Black, queer member of his family.

  • A Conversation with Andrew Black: A Conversation with Steven Hall
    February 2, 2021

    A Conversation with Andrew Black: A Conversation with Steven Hall

    Steven Hall on thirteen years between novels, parent-children relationships, and full stops.

  • For the Stories, or for the Visa Delays?
    December 22, 2020

    For the Stories, or for the Visa Delays?

    Nayrouz Qarmout writes about Edinburgh, Gaza, short stories, and packing her bag.

  • A Broken Story: A Conversation with Mia Couto
    December 9, 2020

    A Broken Story: A Conversation with Mia Couto

    Mia Couto discusses colonialism, Covid-19 and silence.

  • Breaking Lines: An Interview with Tine Høeg
    December 3, 2020

    Breaking Lines: An Interview with Tine Høeg

    Danish writer Tine Høeg discusses line breaks, desire and and narrative puzzles.

  • On the Pacific Coast: The English PEN Membership Interview Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman
    November 20, 2020

    On the Pacific Coast: The English PEN Membership Interview Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman

    Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman, author and translator of PEN Translates award-winning The Bitch, are interviewed by the English PEN Membership from their homes in Colombia and the USA.

  • Shuddhashar at 30: An Interview with Tutul
    November 10, 2020

    Shuddhashar at 30: An Interview with Tutul

    Bangladeshi publisher Tutul – with whom Margaret Atwood shared her 2016 PEN Pinter Prize – discusses exile, free thinking, and thirty years of the magazine and publisher Shuddhashar.

  • Already Bedfellows: A Long Interview with So Mayer
    October 29, 2020

    Already Bedfellows: A Long Interview with So Mayer

    So Mayer discusses fascism, cinema, genderqueerness and freedom of expression.

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