Tuesday, May 7, 7:00 PM EDT - Livestream
Freedom to Write for Palestine
An evening of literature in benefit for We Are Not Numbers, featuring Authors for Change at PEN America
By Palestine Festival of Literature, Amplify Palestine, Writers Against the War on Gaza
Join us on May 7 at Judson Memorial Church for Freedom to Write for Palestine, featuring writers who have withdrawn from PEN America’s World Voices Festival and the PEN America Literary Awards. (note: in person attendance is SOLD OUT - Livestream link below)
In a historic moment of solidarity, dozens of authors have withdrawn from PEN America events, roundly rejecting the NGO’s historic failure to stand with Palestinian writers being killed and displaced en masse in Gaza. The annual Literary Awards have been cancelled and authors continue to pull out of the World Voices Festival. You can read more in LitHub’s extensive coverage here.
The event will be a fundraiser for We Are Not Numbers, a youth-led Palestinian nonprofit project in Gaza that provides the world with direct access to Palestinian narratives. Join us on May 7th to hear from many of them!
If you are an author who has withdrawn from the World Voices Festival, join us for this event! Email info@palfest.org.
Tickets are currently sold out! Please join us by livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@Palfest