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This story was originally published in February 2023. Anneli Andre-Barrett is a senior volunteer for the PEN Canada Writers in Exile (WiE) community, a Refugee Integration Mentor, and Skills Development …
Georgio Russell and Anna Sokolova have won the 2025 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. It is the first time the prize has been awarded to two writers. Each poet will …
Anna Sokolova and Georgio Russell have won the 2025 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. The jury also selected five finalists: Edie Reaney Chunn, Emily Gaudet, Gwen Aube, Helen Han Wei …
PEN Canada is seeking volunteer interns for the fall term to assist with communications, outreach, events and programming initiatives. The deadline to apply is Thursday September 4, 2025 at 5 p.m. …
PEN Canada strongly condemns the killing of six journalists in Gaza on August 10, 2025, by the Israeli military. Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa and …
Written by Hoda Karimi Sadra. Hoda is dear friend of Joan Leishman and an exiled writer from Iran. Joan helped Hoda and her son Ali achieve refugee status with the …
PEN Canada is heartbroken by the sudden passing of Joan Leishman, journalist and long-time advocate for refugee writers. b. January 17, 1958 – d. August 3, 2025 As a young …
Atefeh Khademolreza, an Iranian-Canadian writer and filmmaker, is the recipient of the 2025 PEN Canada Humber Writers-in-Exile Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded annually to a member of the PEN Canada …
How do authors transform the raw material of a traumatic memory into a compelling fiction or nonfiction narrative? This was the task for 10 writers at a workshop last month. …
Ira Wells has been elected as president of PEN Canada. Wells is a critic, essayist, professor of literature, and author of three books, the latest of which, On Book Banning (Biblioasis, …