Tickets for PEN America’s 2021 World Voices Festival are available now! 

This year’s Festival, Power to the People, will draw together virtual audiences from around the world for a series of more than 20 events across five days.

Flash Sale: April 26 – May 2 – use code FLASH21WVF for 25% off

The 2021 PEN World Voices Festival (May 18 – 22, 2021) convenes fiction and nonfiction writers, poets, translators, thinkers, and activists to honor the art of the possible and the power of storytelling to push boundaries, challenge inherited narratives, and give voice to hope, courage, and survival. In a year when division and bloodshed have been fueled by hatreds based on race, ethnicity, and religion, the Festival celebrates resilience and courage, and summons the powers of the radical imagination and literature as gateways to reckoning and reconciliation.

Featured Festival authors this year include: Jhumpa Lahiri, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Imbolo Mbue, Maria Hinojosa, Alison Bechdel, Kiese Laymon, Yusef Komunyakaa, George Saunders, Joy Harjo, Mortada Gzar, G. Willow Wilson, John McWhorter, Edwidge Dandicat, Richard Flanagan, and many more.

Don’t forget to sign up below to become a World Voices Festival Insider, so you can stay up-to-date on all things Festival and get exclusive content about your favorite writers.