Get 2 free tickets to any and all of the more than 50 events at the PEN World Voices Festival from May 4-9 featuring Margaret Atwood, Jia Tolentino, Roxane Gay, John Batiste, Zadie Smith, Tara Westover, Jill LePore, Nikole Hannnah-Jones and dozens of other writers from all over the world, includinng invitations to exclusive after-parties. There are panels, readings, performances and more all over the city.

More about the PEN World Festival

The PEN World Voices Festival is the premier celebration of international literature in the United States, a landmark event on the nation’s cultural calendar.

Each Spring, the Festival presents writers form here and around the world in a week of events across New York City – and now also in Los Angeles – from lively debates that delve into the most pressing issues of our time to intimate conversation that awaken us to the quiet beauty and power of literature.

An engaging program of talks, panels, conversations, and performances draws a vibrant and diverse crowd of the socially engaged and intellectually curious, eager to be challenged, inspired, and entertained.