Support the writers boycotting PEN America
Jessica
Last month, a number of writers announced their decision not to participate in this year’s PEN World Voices Festival in New York and LA. This comes as a response to PEN America, the festival’s organiser, and its failure to issue a clear call for a ceasefire in Gaza, as well as its history of condemning authors who participate in PACBI (the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel).
You can read their open letter published in Literary Hub.
The PEN America Literary Awards was cancelled as a result of the coordinated boycott and dogged work of Writers Against the War on Gaza. For authors still wondering if their voices matter, the $75,000 Prize will now be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (@ThePCRF). To borrow the words of Lit Hub's Dan Sheehan, "the moral courage of dozens of writers of conscience who spoke out in solidarity with the people of Gaza" made the difference.
Here, we’ve gathered a list of books by those authors who signed the letter whose books are available in the UK.
You can also check out a list if authors who have withdrawn from PEN America literary prizes HERE.
Linked Books
![Image for The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97801419/9780141990675.jpg)
- title
- The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness
- author
- Alexander, Michelle
![Image for You Exist Too Much](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97803497/9780349701776.jpg)
- title
- You Exist Too Much
- author
- Arafat, Zaina
![Image for With Teeth](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97814721/9781472156518.jpg)
- title
- With Teeth
- author
- Arnett, Kristen
![Image for Cross-Stitch](https://indiepressnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cross-stitch-cover-wpv_490x750.png)
- title
- Cross-Stitch
- author
- Jazmina Barrera
![Image for Viral Justice : How We Grow the World We Want](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97806912/9780691224930.jpg)
- title
- Viral Justice : How We Grow the World We Want
- author
- Benjamin, Ruha
![Image for Dark Matters : On the Surveillance of Blackness](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97808223/9780822359388.jpg)
- title
- Dark Matters : On the Surveillance of Blackness
- author
- Simone Browne
![Image for Enter Ghost](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97815299/9781529919998.jpg)
- title
- Enter Ghost
- author
- Hammad, Isabella
![Image for The Singularity](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97818042/9781804270813.jpg)
- title
- The Singularity
- author
- Balsam Karam
![Image for Red Pill](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97814711/9781471194504.jpg)
- title
- Red Pill
- author
- Kunzru, Hari
![Image for My Friends : From the Pulitzer-prize winning author of THE RETURN](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97802414/9780241409480.jpg)
- title
- My Friends : From the Pulitzer-prize winning author of THE RETURN
- author
- Matar, Hisham
![Image for The Shadow King](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97818388/9781838851170.jpg)
- title
- The Shadow King
- author
- Mengiste, Maaza
![Image for I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home : 'The most irresistible contemporary American writer.' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97805712/9780571273850.jpg)
- title
- I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home : 'The most irresistible contemporary American writer.' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
- author
- Moore, Lorrie
![Image for behind You is the Sea](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97818007/9781800754171.jpg)
- title
- behind You is the Sea
- author
- Susan Muaddi Darraj
![Image for Choice](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97818054/9781805460497.jpg)
- title
- Choice
- author
- Mukherjee, Neel
![Image for Who Put This Song On?](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97814721/9781472154217.jpg)
- title
- Who Put This Song On?
- author
- Parker, Morgan
![Image for And Then He Sang a Lullaby](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97818047/9781804710166.jpg)
- title
- And Then He Sang a Lullaby
- author
- Somtochukwu, Ani Kayode
![Image for The Odyssey](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97803933/9780393356250.jpg)
- title
- The Odyssey
- author
- Homer, Wilson, Emily (University of Pennsylvania)
![Image for The Light Room](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97805934/9780593421062.jpg)
- title
- The Light Room
- author
- Kate Zambreno
![Image for Doppelganger : A Trip Into the Mirror World](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97802416/9780241621301.jpg)
- title
- Doppelganger : A Trip Into the Mirror World
- author
- Naomi Klein
![Image for The Forgery](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97819138/9781913867157.jpg)
- title
- The Forgery
- author
- Barrera, Ave, Jones, Ellen, Myers, Robin
![Image for Build Yourself a Boat](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97816084/9781608466115.jpg)
- title
- Build Yourself a Boat
- author
- Felix, Camonghne
![Image for Ordinary Notes](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97819141/9781914198144.jpg)
- title
- Ordinary Notes
- author
- Sharpe, Christina
![Image for Hangman](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97819115/9781911590774.jpg)
- title
- Hangman
- author
- Binyam, Maya
![Image for Town of Babylon, The : A Novel](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97816626/9781662601996.jpg)
- title
- Town of Babylon, The : A Novel
- author
- Alejandro Varela
![Image for Boulder](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97819135/9781913505387.jpg)
- title
- Boulder
- author
- Baltasar, Eva, Sanches, Julia