The murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi has jeopardized America’s support for the Saudi monarchy and highlighted the West’s willingness to tolerate or ignore repressive behaviour in its allies. Historian, biographer, journalist and editor Sam Tanenhaus and award-winning CBC journalist Susan Ormiston will discuss the consequences of the murder and consider how they relate to the threats and violence faced by thousands of working journalists in other parts of the world.

The Poetess is the inspiring story of a woman risking her personal safety and seizing an opportunity. Presented in partnership with the Human Rights Watch Toronto Film Festival.

Prize winning authors Marlon James and David Chariandy discuss how fiction has reclaimed representations of the Caribbean within mainstream American, British and Canadian literature. The conversation will be moderated by Brendan de Caires.

Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings) discusses Akira Kurosawa's visionary masterpiece, Rashomon, and its lasting influence on cinema, literature, and popular culture, including James' own highly anticipated Dark Star trilogy.

Desmond Cole in conversation with Jael Richardson, founder and artistic director of the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), on writing the black experience in Canada. Presented as part of Freedom to Read Week 2018.

Join PEN Canada and Martin Amis for an intimate evening of conversation ranging from Saul Bellow to Donald Trump: incendiary politics, literature, and the madness of crowds.

The December Boneshaker reading series will feature Spencer Gordon and Margo Lapierre reading from their work. Hosted by PEN Member, Lillian Necakov. A PEN Empty Chair event in support of Azerbaijani blogger Rashad Ramazanov.

Six women directors follow female journalists who courageously and tirelessly work in their field despite a myriad of threats and challenges.

In 1992, PEN Canada members smuggled Salman Rushdie into the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto amidst a fatwa calling for his assassination.

A discussion about the killing of journalists who dared to expose the authoritarian government as well as the larger threat to democracy in India.