SAN MIGUEL PEN
A centre of PEN International
We celebrate freedom of expression around the world
Promote literature
Stand up for writers in peril
Foster friendship and solidarity among writers
WE CONDEMN THE MURDERS OF JOURNALISTS
San Miguel PEN is alarmed and dismayed by the sharp increase in the number of journalists being murdered worldwide, most recently the targeted killing of 10 Palestinian journalists in Gaza. We stand with PEN International in condemning all attacks on freedom of expression, from harassment and intimidation to imprisonment to murder.
For more details, and to donate toward efforts to protect journalists and other writers at risk, click here: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/summer-appeal-2025-pen-international.
For the latest news on writers at risk, click here: https://www.pen-international.org/latest-news.
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Getting Involved
Learn about the programs we support locally & internationally
Young Writers Commitee
Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee
Ojo en Nicaragua / Eye on Nicaragua
Pen Winter Lecture Series
Pen Writers in Prison Commitee
PEN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN WRITERS COMMITTEE
Local literary, Health & Education
Our Mission
In 1979, Peter Elstob founded the San Miguel chapter of PEN International, an association of writers with 145 Centers in 104 countries. We remain a welcoming, dedicated grassroots organization in the city of San Miguel de Allende.
Promoting friendship and intellectual cooperation among writers everywhere, PEN represents the conscience of literature, and vigorously defends writers worldwide who have been persecuted for their work. In 1987, San Miguel PEN began their popular Winter Lecture Series to raise funds for their heroic efforts.
Acknowledgement to Country
PEN San Miguel respects all the people of this land past and present.
The Indigenous Peoples of these lands (known collectively as Chichimecas), the Zacatecos, Guachichiles, Tecuexes, Caxcanes, Otomí, Pames and Guamares. [Of these groups, — the Otomí and Pames still exist.]
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we meet and live today and pay our respect to Elders past and present.
San Miguel PEN at 2024 PEN International Congress, Oxford
The eve of the PEN International Annual Congress, this time in Oxford, was chilly and sodden. I arrived at night. Flood alerts lighted up my phone. The theme of the conference, “Writers in a World at War,” and the dark and desolate plaza where the coach from Heathrow left me off, set the serious tone with hammering rain, little shelter and a troubling absence of taxis.
Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Alleged Mastermind in Berta Cáceres Murder Case.
Authorities in Honduras have issued an arrest warrant for the alleged mastermind in the case of the murdered Indigenous environmental leader Berta Cáceres. Cáceres was gunned down in her home in March 2016 in retaliation for leading a campaign to stop the construction...
Lucina Kathmann at 37th Guadalajara Book Fair: A Global Literary Celebration.
San Miguel PEN’s very own, Lucina Kathmann, Vice-President of PEN International, and our Treasurer, was among the 857,315 ebullient people who attended the 37th Feria Internacional del Libro in Guadalajara, the second-largest book fair in the world this year. In this...
Nicaragua en 2022: 703 violaciones a la libertad de prensa
Alto comisionado ONU pide respeto a libertades en Nicaragua
Ojo en Nicaragua 15 dic 2022 El alto comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, Volker Türk, instó el 15 de diciembre al Ihi eb Bgobierno de Nicaragua a “liberar de inmediato a todos los detenidos” por razones políticas, y a iniciar “un diálogo nacional...
Nicaragua en 2022: 703 violaciones a la libertad de prensa
El año 2023 inició en Nicaragua con un legado de dramáticas violaciones a las libertades fundamentales. La plataforma regional Voces del Sur (VDS) documentó 703 casos de violaciones a la libertad de prensa en el año 2022. El organismo declaró haber conocido de más...