Palestine Writes (PW) is the only North American festival dedicated to celebrating Palestinian literature and other cultural productions. PW was formed in 2018 in response to the pervasive exclusion of Palestinian creatives in mainstream cultural institutions and from social or political discourse in general. The PW inaugural event was the Palestine Writes 2020 Literature Festival. PW aims to create an institution for and by Palestinian creatives and scholars to showcase their work, where they are seen and heard, as opposed to the anthropological curiosity of the exotic that is the dynamic in mainstream institutions.