PEN Hong Kong

PEN Hong Kong

Formation	2016
Type	Literary organization
Purpose	Promote literature and defend freedom of expression in Hong Kong and the rest of China
Headquarters	Hong Kong
Region served	Hong Kong, China
Official language	English, Chinese
President	Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Key people	Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (president), William Nee (vice president), Ilaria Maria Sala (vice president)
Parent organization	PEN International
Website	penhongkong.org (no longer working)

PEN Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港筆會) is one of the 148 centers of PEN International. Founded in 2016, it is a multilingual society of Hong Kong–based writers, poets, publishers, editors, translators, journalists and academics, aimed at promoting literature and defending the freedom of expression in Hong Kong.

The current president of PEN Hong Kong is Tammy Lai-Ming Ho. Other officers include Ilaria Maria Sala (Vice President), William Nee (Vice President) and Edmund Cheng (Secretary).^[1]