personal essays – Page 2 – PEN Transmissions

Hope in a Bottle of Honey

Kurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.

Alex Valente on translating fascism between Italy, the UK and the US.

Patrice Lawrence writes about her father, Windrush, and death.

Barbadian speculative fiction writer Karen Lord writes before and after a storm.

Yvonne Battle-Felton on listening, fear, and home.

Dzifa Benson writes on contemporary and historical perceptions of black women’s bodies