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Submissions open for the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award
PEN Canada is now accepting English-language submissions for the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. The annual award supports and celebrates emerging talent in Canadian literature. Unpublished writers are …
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AI Goes to War | Online CFE Event
Free online from the Centre for Free Expression (CFE) Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 7 p.m. EST Tuesday, January 23, 4 p.m. EST Zoom link: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 About this event The potential …
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Alaa Abd el-Fattah – follow-up letter to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Originally published by English PEN | Photo of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, courtesy of freealaa.net. Photo by Mosaab El-Shamy. April 17, 2024 Dear Members of the United Nations Working Group …
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TIFA 2022 — The Freedom to Write and to Read: Standing with Salman Rushdie
“Free Speech is the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.” — Salman Rushdie PEN Canada, Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto International Festival of Authors and Writers’ Trust of Canada …
