PEN Transmissions

July 28, 2020August 25, 2020

Storms

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

July 21, 2020August 25, 2020

Some Place to Call Home

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

July 17, 2020July 31, 2020

After Saartjie: The Persistence of Prejudice

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

July 17, 2020July 31, 2020

Editorial: Black Voices

Our editorial on forthcoming work in PEN Transmissions.

June 30, 2020July 21, 2020

The Global Desi Story: A Conversation with Kritika Pandey

Kritika Pandey, winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, talks about transgressing cultural norms, protesting, and Hinglish.

June 25, 2020July 21, 2020

Exils

To close our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Scholastique Mukasonga writes a personal experience of exile as a Rwandan Tutsi

June 23, 2020June 30, 2020

Latinx Letters: An Interview with Leo Boix

Leo Boix discusses bilingualism, British Latinx poetry, and race in Latin America.

June 18, 2020July 21, 2020

Remembering Partition

For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Kavita Puri writes on partition, memory and exile.

June 11, 2020November 17, 2020

Exile, One Step Beyond

For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Selma Dabbagh writes on Palestine, desire, place and the future.

June 9, 2020June 27, 2020

Disturbing the Comfortable and Comforting the Disturbed

Andrzej Tichý writes on music and migrant experience

June 4, 2020July 21, 2020

How Do I Reconcile these Irreconcilable Things?

For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Taqralik Partridge writes on Scotland, Canada, and language loss

June 2, 2020June 27, 2020

Liberating Languages: A Conversation with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Damian Le Bas and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

Three writers discuss language and power.

May 27, 2020June 27, 2020

Poetry’s Democracy: An Interview with Anthony Anaxagorou

Anthony Anaxagorou – poet, writer, publisher and educator – discusses spoken word after COVID-19, Cyprus, and poetry in the age of social media.

May 21, 2020July 22, 2020

This Library Is Not an Artwork: An Interview with Edmund de Waal

To open our series with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Edmund speaks to us about his library of exile

May 19, 2020June 27, 2020

This Is Not an Arthur Koestler Novel – This Is Turkey

Can Bahadır Yüce writes on Turkey’s response to coronavirus, and calls for the release of at-risk political prisoners

May 12, 2020June 27, 2020

That Is Where My Navel String Buried: An Interview with Ingrid Persaud

Ingrid Persaud discusses love, Trinidad, and home.

May 5, 2020January 1, 2021

Art Is a Tool for Thinking: An Interview with Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing discusses the power of art in an emergency, the role of bad art, and our current weather.

May 1, 2020July 22, 2020

A Hideous Kind of Tetris: Eley Williams in Conversation with Peggy Hughes

As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Eley Williams speaks to Peggy Hughes about dictionaries, constructing characters, and playing literary Tetris.

April 30, 2020July 22, 2020

Interrogating Bodies: Irenosen Okojie in Conversation with Aki Schilz

As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Irenosen Okojie speaks to Aki Schilz about bodies, musicality, and placing black women at the centre.

April 29, 2020July 22, 2020

The Darker Emotions of Being a Woman: Hazel Barkworth in Conversation with Hannah Trevarthen

As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Hazel Barkworth speaks to Hannah Trevarthen about summertime, the writing process, and ‘unlikeable’ women characters.