PEN America

A community of writers standing where literature meets human rights, organized around the freedom to write and to read.

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  • Movement
  • NY
  • Other membership organization
  • Read from public sources, Sep 2026
1named by PA
45named by peers

Peer societies

Five societies PEN America is read alongside.

Who backs PA

Every company PEN America names publicly as a supporter, exactly as published. Companies also named by other associations on Sociogene come first.

CompanySupport as publishedAlso named by
PEN/Audible Literary Service AwardAward sponsorAPA ITW NBF NRBP
Sources: 1 published list, read September 2026

PEN America Literary Gala 2026 awards. Read September 28, 2026. Corporate-named gala award only; no sponsor list is published.

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Who backs PEN America's peers, but not PEN America

Companies named publicly by at least one of PEN America's five peer societies, and not found in PEN America's reviewed public records.

CompanyAWWPAAPPSAPeers
Amazon Literary PartnershipNamedFOUNDATIONS & CORPORATIONS2 of 3
Persea BooksNamedSupporter2 of 3
W. W. Norton & CompanyNamedPresenting Partner2 of 3
Alfred A. KnopfPartner1 of 3
Asterism BooksNamed1 of 3
Atmosphere PressMajor1 of 3
Belt PublishingSustainer1 of 3
Betsy South Beach HotelIn Kind Partner1 of 3
BillerudIn Kind Partner1 of 3
Birds, LLCNamed1 of 3
Button PoetryNamed1 of 3
CitiFOUNDATIONS & CORPORATIONS1 of 3
City Lights Booksellers & PublishersSupporter1 of 3
Coach House BooksNamed1 of 3
Finishing Line PressNamed1 of 3
Fortier Public RelationsIn Kind Partner1 of 3
Google, Inc.FOUNDATIONS & CORPORATIONS1 of 3
HarperCollins/EccoSponsor1 of 3
Hemingway PublishersNamed1 of 3
Izzy Works Social Media StudioNamed1 of 3
LindenmeyrIn Kind Partner1 of 3
Main Street Rag Publishing CompanyNamed1 of 3
MidlandIn Kind Partner1 of 3
MindBuck MediaSustainer1 of 3
MindBuck Media Book PublicityNamed1 of 3
New Directions PublishingNamed1 of 3
On Press Book PrintingNamed1 of 3
Penguin Random HousePresenting Partner1 of 3
Pitch PRNamed1 of 3
PM PressNamed1 of 3
Press 53Named1 of 3
Publishers MarketplaceNamed1 of 3
SabbaticalHomesNamed1 of 3
SappiIn Kind Partner1 of 3
She Writes PressNamed1 of 3
StoryStudio ChicagoPatron1 of 3
the future of agency | book marketing servicesNamed1 of 3
The New York Review of BooksNamed1 of 3
The Permissions Company, LLCNamed1 of 3
The phazelFOZ Company, LLCNamed1 of 3
The Rumpus and Roxane Gay BooksPremier Sponsor1 of 3
The Writing Mentors, LLCNamed1 of 3
W. Brand PublishingNamed1 of 3
Write Bloody PublishingNamed1 of 3
Writers' Haven LLCNamed1 of 3

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The outside view

A community of writers standing where literature meets human rights, organized around the freedom to write and to read.

  • Consensus
  • Build
  • Outward
  • Operational

Their shape

The Movement

Gathered around a cause, and built to move.

The Movement is mission-led and built to mobilize, organized around changing something in the world. Its gift is passion and external impact, its challenge is turning momentum into something that lasts.

Also reads toward The Guild and The League.

Strengths

→Real influence on the wider field.
→Members are motivated by a clear why.
→Quick to rally around what matters now.

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