Special projects

On May 8, 2020, on the Day of Memory and Reconciliation, PEN Ukraine and National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy organized an international project "Peace and War" dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
Year: 2020
Coordinator: Polina Horodyska

It is a PEN Ukraine and The Ukrainians online magazine special project. The first literary TOP 100 seeking to tell Ukrainians and the world about the essential works of literature written in the Ukrainian language was created by members of the Ukrainian center of PEN International.
Year: 2019
Coordinator: Tetyana Teren

A joint information campaign of George Gongadze Prize and Lviv Media Forum NGO seeks to remind the civil society and the Ukrainian media of the values of independent journalism, the value of truth, and of the fact that dissemination of inconvenient information is a dangerous job for the common good.
Years: 2020–
Coordinator: Oksana Mamchenkova

The aim of the project is to get acquainted with the young generation of media people who choose the professional path of independent journalists every day, fearlessly tackle complex topics, create their own projects and make them sustainable and successful.
Year: 2021
Coordinator: Oksana Mamchenkova

A joint special project of the Ukrainian PEN and the printed literary report Reporters. about the most significant events in the history of independent Ukraine that affected the lives of each of us.
Year: 2021
Idea: Marichka Paplauskaite, Taras Prokopyshyn
Coordinators: Tetyana Teren, Andriy Vakhtel
Editors: Stanislav Ostapenko
Literary editing: Anastasia Levkova, Iryna Klymko

Special project of the Ukrainian PEN and the online magazine The Ukrainians "30 years. Culture "about the most significant events in the history of independent Ukraine, which is a continuation of the special project" 30 years in 30 photos ".
Year: 2021
Coordinator: Andriy Vakhtel
Editors: Pavlo Korobchuk, Anastasia Levkova

A joint special project of the Ukrainian PEN and the online magazine The Ukrainians. The list, organized by PEN members, is designed to promote Ukrainian literature and Ukrainian writers in Ukraine and around the world; show the completeness and diversity of Ukrainian great prose; to become a guide for publishers, librarians and cultural organizations, and to encourage young audiences to read great texts.
Year: 2021
Coordinator: Tetyana Teren

A joint special project of the Ukrainian PEN in collaboration with George Gongadze Prize and the online magazine The Ukrainians.
Year: 2022
Idea of the project: Tetyana Teren
Project coordinator: Oksana Mamchenkova


Platform for the memory of journalists who died as a result of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.
Years: 2022-...
Coordinators: Oksana Mamchenkova, Diana Delyurman
Partners: Institute of Mass Information, National Endowment for Democracy