2025 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony at Town Hall – New York, NY

Get your tickets to see 2025 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony in New York, NY. Happening on Thursday, May 8, 2025 at Town Hall. Doors open at 7:30 PM.

The 2025 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony returns to the historic Town Hall to honor and celebrate remarkable literature along with the writers translators editors and publishers who helped these stories come to life. We hope youll join us for a night of literary celebration and community. Award winning journalist and writer Tamron Hall will host the ceremony featuring musical performances by Tony and Grammy Award winning Broadway performer J. Harrison Ghee and musical direction by Ulysses Owens Jr three time Grammy Award winning drummer. The ceremony includes winner announcements live music and dramatic readings from selected works. Our awards are juried by panels of esteemed award winning authors editors translators and critics. These authors are committed to recognizing their contemporaries from promising debut writers to those who have already had a continuous and lasting impact on the literary landscape. The 2025 Literary Awards will be conferred to writers and translators.

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