Our editorial on forthcoming work in PEN Transmissions.
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Our editorial on forthcoming work in PEN Transmissions.
Read MoreOur editorial on forthcoming work in PEN Transmissions.
Read MoreOur editorial on the Digital English PEN Literary Salon – interviews with writers who were due to appear at the 2020 London Book Fair.
Read MoreRead about changes to PEN Transmissions during our current crisis.
Read MoreOur editorial on the PEN Transmissions x Granta Magazine series.
Read MoreThe four contributions in this issue range from concrete steps to achieve a utopia without sexual harassment and assault, to dystopian visions that are anchored in the more nightmarish aspects of our present, to reflections on how past ideologies have an impact on our present.
Read MoreThe writers in this issue aim to amplify the voices of those not heard within wider society. They call out power structures, whether they be sexist, racist, imperialist or – all of those things
Read MoreDo you ever feel that the things you used to believe in are disintegrating before your very eyes? That belief systems turn out to be fake, or flawed? Do you ever feel as if you are living in a world where people put blind faith into ideas that are bound to disappoint them?
Read MoreAs the UK makes its way through the interminable Brexit process, it’s time for an issue on the radical political and personal changes that we see going on around us, and within us.
Read MoreIn this issue of PEN Transmissions, we explore different types of family, different ways of building community.
Read MoreYou may think of Kafka; you may think of Ovid; you may think of Transformers, of cars turning into terrifying robots.
Read MoreAs the days are getting shorter, we investigate things that are tucked away in dark corners of the brain – or the national consciousness.
Read MoreSport is emblematic of what goes on in society as a whole. In this issue of PEN Transmissions, we’ve looked at it as a method of inclusion – and exclusion. As a method of belonging as well as of extreme alienation.
Read MoreWhat do you think about when you think about nature? Weeds? Mountains? The sea? Do you think about its absence, or perceived absence, in cities? Or do you ponder human nature?
Read MoreThe idea that we are surrounded by secret undercurrents that shape our interactions is appealing and depressing in an equal fashion. Appealing because there are mysteries to be uncovered, intimacies to be shared.
Read MoreWe asked four writers to reflect on different aspects of how they write the past: from personal history to a country’s official past…
Read MoreWe asked four writers what happens after a revolution, after a political crisis or transformation, once the cameras have moved on, when it’s just you and the aftermath of whatever happened.
Read MoreThis being the Year of Publishing Women, we are dedicating our first issue to women’s writing, bringing together voices from Mexico, Argentina, Singapore, and the UK.
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