PEN Transmissions

PEN Transmissions is a magazine for international and translated voices. It features interviews with and personal essays from established and emerging writers. PEN Transmissions is the online magazine of English PEN, a charity that promotes the freedom to write and the freedom to read. Editor: Will Forrester. Read it here/.



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