FREE EXPRESSION MATTERS
The following individuals and organizations have shown their commitment to freedom of expression by supporting PEN Canada for our 2023 fiscal year. We applaud them for championing a world in which writers are free to write, readers are free to read, and freedom of expression prevails.
Last updated June 19, 2023.
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HONORARY PATRONS
Margaret Atwood
Gary Beelik
Louise Dennys
Sturla Gunnarsson
Rick Mercer
Jim Ryce
John Ralston Saul
GOLD PATRONS ($5,000-$9,999)
Katherine Govier
Peter Grant and Grace Westcott
Yann Martel
Philip Slayton and Cynthia Wine
SILVER PATRONS ($2,500–$4,999)
Linwood and Neetha Sands Barclay
Scott Connell and Anouchka Freybe
Karen Ruddy
PATRONS ($1,000–$2,499)
Sara and Michael Angel
Scotia Bhattacharya
Randy and Anna Boyagoda
The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson
Andrew Cohen
George Galt
Anne and Nicholas Giardini
Susan Greer and Robert Hough
Hank Intven and Lyndsay Green
Nancy Jamieson
Nina Josefowitz
Alisha Kaplan
Michael Kedar and Eva Seidner
David Kendall
Andrea Lenczner
Margaret MacMillan
Ruth Mandel
JoAnn Elizabeth McCaig
Scott McIntyre
Rohinton and Freny Mistry
Laurence Packer
Sarah Pape
John Ralston Saul
Marcus Reid
Richard Stursberg
Jean Teillet
Simon Wallace
SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS
BENEFACTOR ($50,000+)
Leslie Mary Coull Alter Ego Trust
PLATINUM ($25,000-$49,999)
The RBC Emerging Artists Project
RBC Foundation
GOLD ($15,000-$24,999)
Ontario Arts Council
BRONZE ($1,000-$14,999)
Balfour Bowen Family Foundation
Council for Canadian American Relations
Colleges Ontario & Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP
Emerald Foundation
Freybe Foundation
The Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman Foundation
Gerald Sheff and Shanitha Kachan Charitable Foundation
Howitt Dunbar Foundation
Margaret Atwood Extra Pocket Foundation
Michael and Cathy MacMillan Family Foundation
Michael B. Decter Foundation at Toronto Foundation
Michael and Honor de Pencier Foundation
N.A. Taylor Foundation
Norman & Margaret Jewison Foundation
Penguin Random House Canada Limited
The Rotman Family
Sierra Supply Chain Services
Stonefields Foundation
Wesbild Holdings Ltd
PROGRAMMING PARTNERS
Ageless International Film Festival
Atwater Poetry Project
Calgary Wordfest
CBC Radio’s Ideas
CBC Radio’s The Current
Centre for Free Expression, Toronto Metropolitan University
Citizen Lab
Digital Media at the Crossroads (DM@X) Conference 2023
Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
George Brown College
Global Reporting Centre, University of British Columbia
HotDocs
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Humber College School for Writers
ICORN International Cities of Refuge Network
IFEX
Infoscape Research Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
International Issues Discussion Series, Toronto Metropolitan University
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
Literary Umbrella of Quebec
PEN America
PEN International
PEN Myanmar
Quebec Writers’ Federation
Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
Romero House
The Shoe Project
Toronto International Festival of Authors
Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Toronto Public Library
Writers’ Trust of Canada46 PEN CANADA ANNUAL REPORT 22/23
IN KIND
Authors at Harbourfront Centre
Babin Bessner Spry
CNW Group
Soapbox Design Communications
Literary Review of Canada
Kathy Koch
HONORARY MEMBERS
Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Said Abdelkader
Emanuel Asrat
Temesken Ghebreyesus
Mattewos Habteab
Dawit Habtemichael
Medhanie Haile
Dawit Isaak
Yusuf Mohamed Ali
Narges Mohammadi
José Armando Rodríguez Carreón
Seyoum Tsehaye
Fesshaye Yohanness
MEMBERS
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Rajah al Sur
Patricia Aldana
Behrouz Aligholi Mayelzadeh
Marion Allan
Jason Anderson
Anneli Andre-Barrett
George Anthony
Rick Archbold
Bert Archer
Sally Armstrong
James Arnett
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Richard Bachmann
Marsha Barber
Deborah Barndt
Gavin Barrett
Jim Bartley
Alison Bate
Paul Bennett
David Bezmozgis
Andrew Binks
Gwen Bird
Peter D. Birt
Ted Bishop
Neil Bissoondath
Robin Blackburn McBride
Becky Blake
Ronna Bloom
Stephanie Bolster
Michael Bookman
Ali Boreyri
Marian Botsford Fraser
Paulette Bourgeois
Jane Bow
Lynne Bowen
Kate Braid
Niyazi Braim
Mary J. Breen
Max Brem
Rebecca Brill-Argall
Mitchell Brown
Colin Browne
William Bruneau
Andrew Bryant
William Bryant
Mary Burns
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Nicolas Calvé
Gillian Campbell
Anthony Carnovale
Claudia Casper
Jennifer Chapin
Delvin Chatterson
Pamela Clark
James Clarke
Mary Frances Coady
Kristin Cochrane
Valerie Connor
Paige Cooper
Margaret Cornish
Jack Costello, S.J.
Susan Coyne
Jim J. Creskey
Alan Cumyn
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Marin Darmonkow
Farida Darvish
Jack David
Gwen Davies
Ryan Day
Michael Decter
Teri Degler
Ron Deibert
Onder Deligoz
Gezahegn Mekonnen Demissie
Poonam Dhir
Marcello Di Cintio
Em Dial
JoAnn Dionne
Bronwyn Drainie
Naomi Duguid
Catherine Dunphy
Maggie Dwyer
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Omar El Akkad
Taha Elkhalifa
Jacqueline & Peter Elton
Marina Endicott
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Kim Fahner
Chris Faiers
Jane Fairburn
Marsha Faubert
Thelma Fayle
Rob Fennell
Leonard Findlay
Robert Finley
Christine Fischer Guy
Cynthia Flood
Kevin Flynn
Judy Fong Bates
Charles Foran
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Cadence Fournier
Keath Fraser
Josh Freed
Valerie French
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Marie-Louise Gay
Paola Gomez
Ron Graham
Charlotte J. Gray
Melvyn Green
Chris Gudgeon
Jing Guo
Graeme Hamilton
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Beth Haddon
Judith Hall
Graeme Hamilton
Don Hannah
Victor Harding
Dawn Harman
Merle Harris
Elizabeth Hay
Peter Hay
Kate Heartfield
Christopher Hedges
Dorris Heffron
Clara Henssen
Gary Heyde
Lawrence Hill
Chara Ho
Judy Holm
Carol Holmes
Lynn Horton
Louisa Howerow
Linda Huestis
Isabel Huggan
Graeme Hunter
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Kevin Irie
John Irving
Frances Itani
Spencer Izen
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Bassam Jamil
Catherine Jeffery
Maureen Jennings
Tianyang Jiang
Theresa Johnson
Elizabeth Johnston
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Elizabeth Kaplan
Anna Ling Kaye
Janet Keeping
Richard Keith
Margo Kelly
Nancy Vernon Kelly
Michael Kennedy
David Kent
Elaine Kierans
Micah Killjoy
Camie Kim
Mark Kingwell
Josh Knelman
Brenda Koller
Sheila Koop
David Koulack
Diana Kuprel
Tanya Kyi
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Marlene Lachcik
Andrew Lafleche
Anita M. Lahey
Bethany Lake
Bianca Lakoseljac
Fiona Tinwei Lam
Nancy Lam
Jennifer Lanthier
Cindy Lapeña
Eric M. Lax
Jason Leaver
Alexander Leggatt
Sylvia Legris
Dayna Leighton
Maria Claire Leng
Ezra Levant
Michael Levine
Amanda Lewis
Stewart Lewis
Gregory Light
Jane Lind
Dahlia Liwsze
Damian Lopes
Gloria Lorenzen
Lea Love
Ljerka Susanna Lukic
Derek Lundy
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Christine Mauro
Christopher MacDonald
Wendy MacIntyre
Janet MacLean
Maria Maksymiw
Fareh Malik
Pasha Malla
Sara Mang
Nicole Mankinen
Diary Marif
Dina Marques
Émile Martel
Sandra Martin
Sid Marty
Michelle Mason
Nadya Masri
Abdulrahman Matar
Carol Matas
Colin McAdam
Bob McArthur
Richard McClelland
S.A.M. McCue
Hope McIntyre
Neil McKinnon
Mundy McLaughlin
Stephanie McLellan
Susan McMaster
George Melnyk
Almeda Miller
John Miller
Lawrence Mirkin
Michael Mirolla48 PEN CANADA ANNUAL REPORT 22/23
Catherine Mitchell
Jack Mitchell
Salah El Mohssein
Rebecca Morris
Elise Moser
Ezat Mossallanejad
Omar Mouallem
Rashid Mughal
Cassandra Myers
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Leilah Nadir
Lotfullah Najafizada
Marie Natanson
John Neal
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Peter O’Brien
Jane O’ Hara
Sheila O’Reilly
Aila Omar
Katrina Onstad
Deborah Ostrovsky
Frances M. Owen
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Frederick John Packer
Brian Panhuyzen
Jeungsoon Park
Kathleen Pattinson
Louise Penny
Susan Perly
Francesca Piredda
Carolyn Poirier
Anna Porter
Pamela Porter
Basia Puszkar
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Darlene Quaife
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Monique Rabideau
Suman Rahman
Deepa Rajagopalan
Ceta Ramkhalawansingh
Peter C. Raymont
Philip Resnick
Pedro Restrepo
Kamel Riahi
Nino Ricci
David Rintoul
Diana Rivington
Siobhan Roberts
Brenda Roche
Ingrid Rose
Stuart Ross
Robert Rotenberg
Naben Ruthnum
Elizabeth Ryerson
Maria Helena Rykov
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Maria Sabaye Moghaddam
Dr. Farshid Sadatsharifi
Hoda Karimi Sadr
Judie Sahadeo
Kerri Sakamoto
Mahdi Saremifar
Candace Savage
Denise Schon
Anneliese Schultz
Giorgia Severini
Mel Shakespeare
Peggy Shannon
Evelyn Sharpe
Gina Shochat-Rakoff
Peter Showler
Haroon Siddiqui
Antanas Sileika
Merilyn Simonds
Marvin Singer
James and Elaine Slater
Caitlin Smith
Adam Sol
Catherine St. Denis
Hugh Stephens
Sandra L. Stephenson
Kate Story
Susan Stromberg-Stein
Rosemary Sullivan
Mark Swartz
George Swede
Joanne Szilagyi
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Barbara E. Tangney
Chris Tenove
Tasleem Thawar
Blossom Thom
Susan Thorne
Hung T. Ton
Ziya Tong
Caroline Topperman
Venus Torabi
Andrea Torrey Balsara
Kim Trainor
U
Lawrence Uhlin
Rui Umezawa
Peter Unwin
Pablo Urbanyi
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John Vaillant
Jacqueline Valencia
Aritha van Herk
Comfort Verissimo
Mark Vessey
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Eleanor Wachtel
Hazrat Wahriz
Jennifer Walcott
Bruce Walsh
Helen Walsh
David Waltner-Toews
Karen Walton
Katherine Ward
Janette Watt
Alan Whitehorn
Laurelyn Whitt
Janice Williamson
Patricia Windrim
Howard Wiseman
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Carolyn Wood
Dorothy Woodhouse
Donna Wootton
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Serhy Yekelchyk
Z
Chro Zand
DONORS
A
Jeff Abraham
Tom Adlhoch
William Aitken
Kathleen Alboim
Jane Anderson
Ken Anderson
Sylvia Andrews
Annick Press Ltd.
Caryl Arundel
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Patricia Balfour
David Bancroft
Deborah Bartlett
Janice Bearg
Benevity Community Impact Fund
Steven Benstead
Rosalyn Black
Michael Brooks
Jacqueline Bryers
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Canada Helps
Canadian Online Giving Foundation
CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation
The Concordian
Katherine Corrick
Geoffrey Creighton
Andrew Creskey
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Michael Devine
Maureen Donnelly
Ian Duncombe
E
Nick Etheridge
Tawhida Tanya Evanson
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Olga Feiguina
Elizabeth Ferguson
Flavelle Family Foundation
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Gary Geddes
The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation
Gordon Gibson
Evelyn Gigantes
Geneviève Goggin
Susan Goldenberg
Taylor Gordon
Bill Graham
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Lorna Harris
Sandra Heft
Tekla Hendrickson
Amy Hutchison
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Sue Irwin
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Lisa Kellett
Michael Klein
Walter Korinowsky
Myrna Kostash
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La Maison Simons
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Bruce MacLellan
Alexandra MacLennan
Pam Marshall
Sally Marshall
August Maurenbrecher
Jennifer Mauro
Helen McDonald
Norman McLeod
Sangeeta Mehta
Naomi Mori
Cosmin Munteanu
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Margot Northey
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Joanne Pitkin
Barbara J. Pulling
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Georgia Quartaro
Kathleen Quinn
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Sabrina Radia-Bramwell
Susan Reisler
Paul Jeffrey Richardson
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Pierre Sarrazin
Saskatchewan Festival Of Words
Sheridan Scott
Rachelle Sender
Jafar Shaker
Leslee Silverman
David Simmons
Keisha Simpson
Glenn Smith
Roman Solonysznyj
Flora Spencer
Stephanie Stavro
Neil Stephenson
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William Wallace
Lucy Waverman
Alison Wearing
Janice Weaver
Douglas Wilson
Randy Witten
Wendy Wright
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Lori Yarrow
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Grace Westcott
Vice President
Karen Walton
Secretary
Michael Bookman
Treasurer
Carolyn Poirier
Chair, Events
Anouchka Freybe
Chair, Fundraising
Anna Porter
Chair, Writers in Peril
Peter Showler
Chair, Indigenous Affairs
Jean Teillet
Chair, Communications
Karen Walton
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Marcello Di Cintio
Paola Gomez (until Jan 31, 2023)
Eluned Jones
Scott McIntyre
Ziya Tong
Bruce Walsh
PAST PRESIDENTS
Richard Stursberg
Randy Boyagoda
Philip Slayton
Charlie Foran
Ellen Seligman
Nelofer Pazira
Constance Rooke
Haroon Siddiqui
Reza Baraheni
Sandra Martin
Ann Ireland
Katherine Govier
Ron Graham
Nino Ricci
Marian Botsford Fraser
Alison Gordon
Louise Dennys
John Ralston Saul
June Callwood
Graeme Gibson
Timothy Findley
Margaret Atwood
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Richard Stursberg
Randy Boyagoda
Neil Bissoondath
Kristin Cochrane
Valerie Connor
Douglas Coupland
David Cronenberg
Ronald Deibert
Esi Edugyan
Omar El Akkad
Charlie Foran
Kevin Hanson
Mark Kingwell
Elana Rabinovitch
Devyani Saltzmann
Philip Slayton
Tanya Talaga
Michael Wernick
Ken Whyte
STAFF
Executive Director
Brendan de Caires
Office Manager
Theresa Johnson
VOLUNTEERS
Anneli Andre-Barrett
Mira Boyagoda
Marian Botsford Fraser
Paola Gomez
Maureen Brosnahan
Önder Deligoz
Gezahegn Mekonnen Demissie
Hannah Fisher
Margo Kelly
Keith Leckie
Mary Jo Leddy
Joan Leishman
Caroline Newton
Maria Sabaye
Alyssa Sammut
Amir Yazdanbod
SPEAKERS
André Alexis
Margaret Atwood
Nahlah Ayed
Freweini Berhane
The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson
Ron Deibert
Önder Deligöz
Gezahegn M. Demissie
Louise Dennys
Em Dial
Esi Edugyan
Omar El Akkad
Ari Gunnarsson
Sturla Gunnarsson
Ava Homa
John Irving
John Jonaid
Keith Leckie
Fareh Malik
Yann Martel
Abdulrahman Matar
Ian McEwan
Deepa Mehta
Rohinton Mistry
Luis Horacio Nájera
Deepa Rajagopalan
Maria Ressa
Pedro Restrepo
Bilal Sarwary
John Ralston Saul
Shyam Selvadurai
Isabella Wang
Grace Westcott
Amir Yazdanbod
Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk
Ric Young
IN MEMORIAM
Reza Baraheni, PEN Canada president (2001-2003)
Clayton Ruby, past PEN Canada Chair of Legal Affairs
SPECIAL THANKS
Mariam Al Zier
Theo Amory
Anneli Andre-Barrett
Lies Aris
Amber Bracken
Jess Atwood Gibson
Linwood Barclay
Gary Beelik
Dmitry Beniaminov
Dr. Carolyn Berbrayer
S. Bear Bergman
David Bezmozgis
Biblioasis
Calgary Wordfest
Mary Campbell
Canada Helps
Claudia Casper
The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson
Irwin Cotler
Marcello di Cintio
Michael Decter
Peter Donolo
Kim Echlin
Omar El Akkad
Shams Erfan
Margie Espinosa
Kathy Findlayson
Anouchka Freybe
Matt Galloway
George Brown College
Paola Gomez
Anne Giardini
Lyndsay Green
John Healy
Susan Heximer, George Brown College
Hirut Ethiopian Jazz Club
Hogg, Schain and Scheck
Ange Holmes
Siri Hustvedt
Loretta Ing
Hank Intven
John Irving
El Jones
Joshua Knelman
Andrey Kurkov
Kyra Lacaden
Mary Jo Leddy
Joan Leishman
Literary Review of Canada
Yann Martel
Dr. Trina McCrae
Scott and Corky McIntyre
Media Profile
Linda Morra
Omar Mouallem
Kari Moyer
Dr. Kristjan Mullerbeck
Luis Horacio Nájera
Zeynep Oral
Anna Porter
Deepa Rajagopalan
Jim Ryce
Maria Sabaye
Devyani Saltzman
John Ralston Saul
Peter Showler
Governor-General Mary Simon
Philip Slayton
Richard Stursberg
Chris Tenove
Ziya Tong
Toronto Foundation
Liis Truuvert
Jim Turk
University of British Columbia Vancouver Institute
Karen Walton
Grace Westcott
Cynthia Wine
The Writers’ Union of Canada
Arzu Yildiz
Yonge-Lawrence Dentistry
Shelley Youngblut
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