PEN Canada envisions a world where
writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
Ukrainian filmmaker and writer Oleg Sentsov, who has been on hunger strike since 14 May 2018, is reportedly in a critical condition.
We are a genuinely global organization and our lack of partisan interests gives us a unique moral power to address freedom of expression crises in any part of the world.
PEN strongly condemns the five-month prison sentence handed down to Dareen Tatour on July 31st, 2018 by the Nazareth District Court.
PEN Canada welcome news of Liu Xia’s release from China and commemorate the work of Liu Xiaobo on the first anniversary of his death on July 13, 2017.
PEN emerged during a moment of postwar optimism regarding the potential of human fellowship to overcome the contingencies of geopolitical power.
PEN calls upon the Israeli authorities to end the judicial harassment of Tatour and immediately and unconditionally release her.
Jaclyn Desforges answers questions about narrative form, inspiration, and the craft of writing.
The Turkish authorities should end their continuing onslaught on freedom of expression and lift the state of emergency.
PEN Canada invites applications from creative writers for the position of PEN Canada Writer-in-Residence at George Brown College from August 27, 2018 – December 14, 2018.
Jaclyn Desforges has won the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award for unpublished writers aged 17-30.
Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules