As a part of Banned Books Week, PEN/Opp publish an issue edited by the artist Shubigi Rao. The publication is made during a time when book banning is increasing globally in the wake of autocratisation...
Years ago, I was adamant I’d never write about the war that took place in Bosnia in my infancy. I found the topic passé and though it had nothing to do with me. Poetry laughed at my hubris. Who among...
In The Philippines and Freedom of Expression Conchitina Cruz describes the attempted neoliberal takeover and militarization of universities, issues that are of particular global relevance in this...
This is a letter penned in jail by Amanda Echanis to her father, peace consultant Randall “Ka Randy” Echanis. Amanda, a writer and organizer of the Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women, was...
Text: Amanda Socorro Lacaba Echanis
October 08 2025
Reina Mae “Ina” Nasino, a student activist who became a community organizer, was pregnant when she was arrested on fabricated charges on November 5, 2019 with two other activists at their organization...
Myles Albasin had just graduated from University of the Philippines-Cebu when she and five other young activists were arrested in Mabinay, Negros Oriental on March 3, 2018. Like many detained...
The pieces in this collection are written by Filipino women political prisoners held in the maximum security prison of the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, the...
Text: Conchitina Cruz and Adam David
October 08 2025
Texts by Marilyn Magpatoc, Glendhyl Malabanan, Jean O. Publico, Teresita Abarratigue, Jenny Ann G. Bautista, Ronces Paragoso, Felicidad L. Caparal
October 08 2025
Faye Cura, publisher of Gantala Press, a Filipino feminist small press, writes about the power of dissent, boycott, citizen protest and protest literature as resolute resistance.
Shubigi Rao in conversation with Tomislav Medak, one of the initiators of Public Library, a book-sharing online project with the tagline ‘when everyone is a librarian, the library is everywhere’. This...
Gina Alexandra Srmabekian is a writer whose work grapples with transgenerational trauma, memory and identity. She writes about grief because it is the most powerful articulation of love.
In the wake of the 2020 war over Artsakh and the ethnic cleansing of the Republic that followed in 2023 by Azerbaijan, memory has become a battlefield as fraught as the land itself. “The Spoils of War...
Nyree Abrahamian is a Canadian-Armenian writer and creative director based in Yerevan. She produces Country of Dust, an award-winning narrative podcast, and co-founded the Tumanyan International...
