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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

New spotlight on Tomorrow Club is live, amplifying young voices across Asia until the new year. Over 30 bright young names from 20 countries joined up with inspiring stories, in truth and fiction, opening personal windows into a diverse range of contexts and experiences around the region ⬇️

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Spotlight: Asia

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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Asia Spotlight is live! 🌏 This new series from our Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social features voices from Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand, and more, exploring censorship and resilience through personal reflections. Read the full overview ⬇️ tomorrowclub.world/spotlights/s...

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Young writers are wielding their pens to confront urgent global issues. Ege Dündar, author and project lead with @youngwriterspen.bsky.social, discusses why we must support the next generation of writers and advocates to build solidarity and drive change. bsky.app/profile/peni...

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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Delighted to work with @youngwriterspen.bsky.social on the spotlight on Asia. www.tomorrowclub.world/spotlights/s...

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Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Highly recommend @youngwriterspen.bsky.social

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Young people have long led solidarity movements. In SPOTLIGHT: AMERICAS, a new trilingual publication of the Tomorrow Club (@youngwriterspen.bsky.social), young writers embody free expression and show solidarity through poetry, prose and translation. Read & share: tomorrowclub.world/spotlights/s...

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Spotlight: Americas

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judythhill.bsky.social @judythhill.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

BRAVA! BRAVO! BRILLIANT Tomorrow Club LAUNCHED by @youngwriterspen.bsky.social! To archive & amplify young people's voices shaping our societies; connect brave creative witnesses across borders & exchange stories, strategies & solidarity, & learn from & support each other. www.tomorrowclub.world

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

“Jail isn’t always a room. Sometimes, it’s an entire city.” In his piece “Beyond This Wall of Sea: Dreams and Oppurtunities Await”, young journalist Hassan Abo Qamar writes from Gaza — a place where dreams are trapped behind barbed wire, and even the sea feels like a wall.

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

“Freedom still tastes like a distant promise.” In Of Freedom, Culture, and Happy Thirsts, Togolese writer Wamo Nunyali explores how the illusion of post-independence freedom still weighs on Africa’s youth — and how culture, silence, and survival shape the way they resist.

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🐦 “A baby needs freedom more than food and water.”�In this intimate allegory by Iranian writer Benyamin Abbasi, two birds trapped in a cage debate hope, motherhood, and what it means to live freely — or die trying. 💭 Read full story: tomorrowclub.world/articles/yel... @peninternational.bsky.social

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Yellow and Blue

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

With membership from 58 countries, @peninternational.bsky.social‬’s new Young Writers Committee is mobilizing the next generation of writers and advocates. Read and share our latest blog to support their work and follow youngwriterspen.bsky.social: pen.org/pen-internat...

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PEN International Young Writers Committee Brings Advocacy to Next Generation - PEN America

The Young Writers Committee aims to connect authors under 35 through mentorship, advocacy, collaborative projects, and storytelling spaces.

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Nadia, Translation and International Manager at English PEN (@englishpen_) and member of the Young Writers Committee (@pen_youth) steering group, shares how initiatives for under 35s are helping young people speak freely and share their voices amid growing threats to freedom of expression.

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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Featured in the latest PEN/OPP: Tomorrow Club – Young Voices 📖 Malawian poet Wongani Nyasulu writes with urgency and clarity about gender equality and the right to speak up. Read her powerful poetry in PEN/OPP ⬇️ penopp.org/articles/gir...

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Girls Like Us

Wild lives in our souls We are dreamers often wanderers Traversing to depths most would fear

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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Read more from PEN America (@penamerica.bsky.social) about how the Young Writers Committee's (@youngwriterspen.bsky.social) new global network is shaping the future of literary activism ⬇️

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

“Freedom is not given. It is a struggle.” In Freedom, Youth, and Africa, Malawian poet and activist Wezi Glory Msukwa-Panje reflects on the weight, betrayal, and persistence of freedom across African history — and the fire still carried by its youth today.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Young people worldwide refuse to be silenced. Authors Ayi Renaud Dossavi and @ege-dundar.bsky.social spoke to us about the power of international solidarity and how @youngwriterspen.bsky.social connects young authors with storytelling spaces, advocacy, and mentorship. pen.org/pen-internat...

Author Ege Dündar, with a mustache and wearing a dark shirt, sitting in front of a backdrop of plants and framed by graphic quotation marks. Text on the image contains a quote about challenging authoritarianism and creating dynamic spaces for youth.

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Egyptian poet, lyricist, and pro-democracy activist Galal El-Behairy has been unjustly imprisoned since 2018. Initially detained for the lyrics of the protest song “Balaha”, he was later sentenced to three years in prison for his poetry collection The Finest Women on Earth.

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

In her powerful poem Girls Like Us, Malawian writer and gender activist @wongie_nyasulu explores what it means to grow up as a girl navigating culture, silence, and survival—with a pen in hand.

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Since 7 February 2021, Rwandan poet Innocent Bahati has been missing. He left for a dinner in Nyanza and never returned. No charges. No trial. No answers.

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We are reeds – we may bend, but we will not break.” 🇭🇹🔥

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🌍 Our first regional focus AFRICA is live on our website. Voices from Togo to Malawi, from South Africa to Haiti, rise in urgent unison.

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

✍️ Wongani Nyasalu is an economist and co-founder of Awake for Change, an NGO supporting rural girls through education and human rights. She’s also a member of PEN Malawi and the Commonwealth Youth Gender and Equality Network.

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

New Podcast: Brave Young Voices of Today and Tomorrow — Episode 1 is out now! open.spotify.com/episode/6Do4...

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Ayi Renaud Dossavi, Acting Chair of PEN International’s new Young Writers Committee, shares what this milestone means for young writers, creatives, and activists around the world. More voices shaping this new chapter to come — stay tuned.

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

**You asked. We answered.** Everything you need to know about joining, submitting, and connecting with the PEN Young Writers Committee & The Tomorrow Club — in one thread. 👇

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Tomorrow Club brings together the stories of brave young people across borders who reimagine their societies, embolden solidarity, and collective action. Join us! Submit your story to (tomorrowclub.world) and join your local Pen Centre!

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Galal El-Behairy, this year's PEN/Barbey #FreedomToWrite Award Honoree, was 27 years old when he was arrested. @youngwriterspen.bsky.social highlights the Egyptian poet's unjust and ongoing detention with an #EmptyChair in its latest Spotlight, Young Voices from Africa.

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Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Egyptian poet, lyricist, and pro-democracy activist Galal El-Behairy is unjustly imprisoned since 2018. Initially detained for the lyrics of protest song “Balaha”, he was later sentenced to three years in prison for his poetry collection The Finest Women on Earth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjBd...

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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 12/05/2025

“No liberation alone, all of us or none.” Young people in #Turkey are rising up against the government and breathing new life into the opposition. Writer @ege-dundar.bsky.social calls on us to stand with youth fighting for change in Turkey and beyond: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/05/youn...

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Dominic Wexler @dominicwexler.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Sketching up an essay about @youngwriterspen.bsky.social and their Tomorrow Club. As somebody who has worked as a submissions reader for an online litmag, I can say first hand that a project like Tomorrow Club has been sorely needed for a long time ❤️ www.tomorrowclub.world/how-to-get-i...

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How To Get Involved

We are always looking for new young voices to hear from and connect with our community. If you are a under 35 and have a story tell or want to join us, find out how you can get involved.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

"Young people who stand to inherit these crises are at the frontline, fostering solidarity, confronting shared struggles, and searching for a way forward," writes Ege Dündar, writer and PEN International Board Member in his first piece for @youngwriterspen.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/peni...

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We're thrilled to see the launch of PEN International's Young Writers Committee (YWC)! The YWC believes in the power of writing to drive change and connect people across borders and generations. Follow to support young storytellers defending freedom of expression:

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PEN Sydney @pensydney.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

📢 PEN Sydney welcomes the launch of @peninternational.bsky.social's Young Writers Committee. Support young writers now and follow the YWC @youngwriterspen.bsky.social 🕊️

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Dominic Wexler @dominicwexler.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

📢 Whether you’re an aspiring or established young writer, follow @youngwriterspen.bsky.social to help build our global network. This is our space. Our time. Our future. 🖋️

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