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PEN America cancels 2024 world voices festival amid further fallout

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PEN America cancels 2024 world voices festival amid further fallout

Apr 29 2024

Less than a week after canceling its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony following months of steadily mounting criticism over the organization's response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, PEN America has also canceled what would have been the 20th edition of its World Voices Festival. Both cancellations were made in the wake of a series of withdrawals from awards consideration—along with award refusals, in the case of World Voices cofounder Esther Allen—and from participation in the festival by an unprecedented number of authors.

Source: Publishers Weekly

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