We reiterate concerns that proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation threatens fundamental rights and we continue to call on the Government to ensure that counter-terrorism laws are not misused to suppress expression or protest.
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Submissions for the PEN Heaney Prize 2026 are closing this Sunday for collections published between 1 January and 30 June 2026.
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Join us and winners of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize from the past 25 years – including David Olusoga, Kojo Koram, Anita Anand, Avi Shlaim, and Margaret MacMillan – as they consider the past, present, and future of historical non-fiction.
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‘The words I wrote years prior didn’t stay static on the page. I look at the rope in its frame. It exists because of a chain that includes me.'
In #PENTransmissions, Reni Eddo-Lodge on writing with and from conscience, commissioned by Charleston & English PEN.
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‘Conscience resists unfairness. Imagination resists shallowness. Conscience converses with the self. Imagination hears the selves of everything.'
In #PENTransmissions, Alice Oswald on writing with and from conscience, commissioned by Charleston & English PEN.
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‘So what do we bring to the table? A reputation perhaps? a readership? and any facility we may have with words in quotidian use.’
In #PENTransmissions, Ahdaf Soueif on writing with and from conscience, commissioned by Charleston & English PEN.
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'What would a literary opposition to violence even sound like?'
The 2026 @englishpen.bsky.social lecture has been given by the renowned English writer Max Porter.
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Judges overturn decision of high court that government proscription of group under Terrorism Act was wrong
Submissions are NOW OPEN for the PEN Heaney Prize 2026, in partnership with @irishpen.bsky.social and the Estate of Seamus Heaney. This year’s prize will be judged by poets Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Vona Groarke and Stephen Sexton.
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Alice Oswald on what it means to write with and from conscience.
'What would a literary opposition to violence even sound like?' The 2026 PEN Lecture was delivered by the renowned English writer Max Porter on 29 April 2026.
