2022 Annual General Meeting
2022 Annual General Meeting PEN Canada’s AGM will take place on Thursday, June 16, 2022 at 5:30 pm ET on Zoom. Please RSVP by Friday, June 10th, 2022. All current PEN Canada …
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PEN Canada Writer-in-Residence at George Brown College
PEN Canada invites applications from creative writers in our Writers in Exile group for the position of Writer-in-Residence at George Brown College for the fall semester (August to December 2022) with …
Call for applications from Writers-in-Exile for full scholarship at Humber School for Writers 2022
Humber School for Writers Creative Writing (Correspondence) Program The Humber School for Writers is seeking applications from PEN Canada’s Writers-in-Exile group for its 28-week graduate certificate program commencing in September 2022. The PEN …
PEN Canada calls for nominations for the 2022 Ken Filkow Prize
Calling all champions of freedom of expression in Canada The PEN Canada Ken Filkow Prize has been generously doubled by its funders this year to $2,000. It is awarded to …
GRC Survey — Attacks On Journalists’ Reputations
We are seeing more frequent and sophisticated efforts to discredit journalists. PEN Canada and the Committee to Protect Journalists are working with the team at the Global Reporting Centre (University of British Columbia) to investigate …
30th Toronto Jewish Film Festival, June 9 – 26
PEN Canada is once again partnering with the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. This year’s annual festival is scheduled to take place from June 9th – 26th. There are three films that our …
New Prize — PEN Canada Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize 2022
Calling all defenders of writers in peril This prize is awarded annually to a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who in the past year has provided significant help to a …
Press freedom in Canada — What about student journalists?
CFE Virtual Forum Series: #4 in CFE Series: Threats to Press Freedom — Friday June 10, 2022 3:00pm to 4:30pm Canada’s protection for press freedom does not seem to extend to student …
19th Annual Human Rights Watch Toronto Film Festival — free screening of Mujer de Soldado
PEN Canada is a Community Partner for the 19th Annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival hosted in partnership with HotDocs. On Saturday May 28th at 3:00 pm, there will be …
World Press Freedom Day 2022: Take Action for Ismail al-Iskandrani (Egypt)
May 3, 2022: Today, on World Press Freedom Day 2022, PEN International features the case of investigative journalist Ismail al-Iskandrani, detained by the Egyptian authorities for exercising his right to freedom of …