Check This Out

Check This Out podcast is back for Season 5. Join novelist Rachel Barenbaum for 12 new interviews with popular fiction authors, now with even more high-stakes storytelling, plot twists, and yes… some well-earned romantasy.

    The Big Idea

    Our new series, The Big Idea pairs novelists with thought leaders from other fields for wide-ranging moderated conversations about the big ideas we all wrestle with in contemporary life. Join us Oct 15 at the Goethe-Institut.

    PEN/Hemingway Award Ceremony

    Join us in Boston – or online – as Seán Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s grandson, honors 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel finalist and winner Michael Deagler, author of Early Sobrieties. This event is free to attend in-person or stream online.

    Our Awards

    The PEN/Faulkner Foundation celebrates literature by giving out four major literary awards: the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and the PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion. Our goal in doing so is to honor major literary achievements and help readers discover the breadth and diversity of contemporary fiction.

    Literary Programs

    PEN/Faulkner brings highly acclaimed established and emerging authors together into a shared space, inviting them to discuss urgent contemporary issues through the lens of their varied perspectives. By curating a variety of public literary programs, we turn the private, individual experience of reading into an enriching, inspiring experience for a larger community, one that engages in vital civil discourse.

    Literary Conversations

    PEN/Faulkner brings highly acclaimed established and emerging authors together into a shared space, inviting them to discuss urgent contemporary issues through the lens of their varied perspectives. By curating Literary Conversations, we turn the private, individual experience of reading into an enriching, inspiring experience for a larger community, one that engages in vital civil discourse.

    Education Programs

    PEN/Faulkner provides young people with dynamic literary experiences that combine culturally relevant book donations, writing instruction, and rich discussions with authors. Our education programs work in tandem to create spaces in which students in grades 3-12 from all across DC can engage with a diverse variety of perspectives.

    We currently offer: Writers in Schools, Writing Workshops, Writers in Residence, and our Nuestras Voces initiative.

    OUR MISSION

    The PEN/Faulkner Foundation champions the breadth and power of fiction in America.

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    Your support makes our programs possible. Please consider a contribution. Thank you.

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