editorial – PEN Transmissions

July 17, 2020July 31, 2020

Editorial: Black Voices

Our editorial on forthcoming work in PEN Transmissions.

April 27, 2020June 27, 2020

Editorial: A Digital Salon

Our editorial on the Digital English PEN Literary Salon – interviews with writers who were due to appear at the 2020 London Book Fair.

March 30, 2020June 4, 2020

Editorial: Transmissions in the Time of Coronavirus

Read about changes to PEN Transmissions during our current crisis.

October 8, 2019December 16, 2019

Editorial: PEN Transmissions x Granta

In a PEN Transmissions interview from July 2019, Kapka Kassabova says that ‘good art by its very nature crosses all borders’. Today, in October, the need for such ‘good art’ is acute. And it’s not just national, physical borders that we traverse: literature moves us across personal, communal, and linguistic borders in particular, vital ways.…

August 5, 2019August 27, 2019

Editorial: Transmitting the Future

Over its last twelve issues, PEN Transmissions has conveyed 35 essays and interviews to readers in over 120 countries. From this month, we will be publishing pieces every other week.