The PEN World Voices Festival unveiled the lineup for its 2025 event, with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jennifer Egan, and Jodi Picoult among the authors scheduled to appear in New York and Los Angeles this spring.
This year’s festival will take place from April 30 to May 3. The nonprofit literary group says it “will exemplify literature’s ability to bridge experiences and bring perspective to urgent issues.”
Adichie, author of the recently released Dream Count, will appear at an opening night event in New York alongside Egan (A Visit From the Goon Squad) and PEN International President Burhan Sönmez (Stone and Shadow).
Picoult (Nineteen Minutes) will “examine cases of women’s literary achievements being misappropriated or sidelined” with authors Fiona Davis (The Magnolia Palace) and Adriana Trigiani (Big Stone Gap).
PEN America President Jennifer Finney Boylan (Cleavage) will discuss transgender memoirs with fellow authors Meredith Talusan (Fairest), Bishakh Som (Spellbound), Kate Bornstein (A Queer and Pleasant Danger), and Oliver Radclyffe (Frighten the Horses).
The PEN World Voices Festival was founded in 2004 by Salman Rushdie, Esther Allen, and Michael Roberts. It celebrates “great writing and the power of storytelling against the current headwinds of attacks by those who seek to censor and silence.”
A full lineup of authors and events is available at PEN America’s website.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
