The PEN World Voices Festival 2019: Open Secrets, taking place in New York from May 6 through May 12, will bring together an abundance of noteworthy writers to discuss the gap and how it has manifested itself in culture, society, literature and politics. Some of the minds the festival has enlisted include writer and editor Dave Eggers, novelist Joyce Carol Oates, poet Sonia Sanchez and journalist Sue Halpern.

Writer and activist Arundhati Roy will deliver the festival’s flagship talk, the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, which in the past has been delivered by luminaries including Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Salman Rushdie.

“We take what is essentially a very intimate activity of writing and reading and place it in a public sphere,” said Chip Rolley, the festival’s director.

Some of the specific events include: a conversation between writers Dani Shapiro and Bridgett M. Davis about family secrets; an evening with poet and documentarian Liao Yiwu, novelist Ma Jian, organizers from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing and others; and a conversation titled “Love in the Time of Tinder” with writers Niviaq Korneliussen and Gabriela Wiener. The festival will include more than 60 events.

PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for freedom of expression, has hosted the annual World Voices festival since 2005. More information is available at pen.org.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.