Posts By PEN OutWrite
Two Girls Against the Rain | Cambodia
15th May 2015 | PEN OutWriteDir: Sao Sopheak Curated by Future Shorts
After almost 30 years of civil war and the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia is still one of the poorest countries in the world. Traditional values and customs such as arranged … Read More
Pride | Bulgaria
15th May 2015 | PEN OutWriteDir: Pavel G. Vesnakov Curated by Future Shorts
When I was 5, my parents lost their jobs. Bulgaria was in the early throws of transition to democracy and market economy, and many people of my parents’ generation faced a … Read More
PEN International LGBTQI Resolution
15th May 2015 | PEN OutWriteImage credit: Havas Worldwide Kazakhstan
RESOLUTION ON ANTI-LGBTQI LEGISLATION WHICH RESTRICTS THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
Assembly of Delegates of PEN International, meeting at its 80th World Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 29th September to 2nd October 2014
In … Read More
The Art of Control | Juliet Jacques
15th May 2015 | PEN OutWriteImage credit: Tactical Technology
Warning: This piece contains content that some readers may find offensive
Tamara O’Hara woke at noon to see an envelope lodged in her letterbox, overshadowing the boots, corsets, whips and chains piled by the … Read More
Who We Are | Pablo Simonetti
15th May 2015 | PEN OutWriteIllustration: Kajsa Nilsson
Read in Spanish here. Translated by Grainne Murphy
As I write, I feel a diversity of knowledge, bouyant forces, types of consciousness and layers of memory converge within me. In an attempt to define this state, I … Read More
Judge Edwin Cameron on LGBTQI rights | Video
15th May 2015 | PEN OutWriteEdwin Cameron, Justice of South Africa’s highest court, the Constitutional Court & LGBT rights activist addresses PEN Centres from Sub-Saharan Africa on LGBTQI (December 2014)
Jude Dibia in conversation with PEN International’s Jarkko Tontti
15th May 2015 | PEN OutWriteNigerian novelist Jude Dibia in conversation with PEN International’s Jarkko Tontti at an LGBTQI Free the Word! event hosted by the Finnish Ambassador in Geneva, Päivi Kairamo.
Introduction by Päivi Kairamo and PEN International Writers in Prison Committee Programme Director, … Read More