Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation
Image: People hold hands in a large circle as drummers perform on stage at event at LeBreton Flats on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Day in Ottawa, Canada on …
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PEN Canada to honour Egyptian-British democracy advocate on September 23 at Toronto International Festival of Authors
Image: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, courtesy of www.freealaa.org . Photo by Mosaab El-Shamy. TORONTO, September 19, 2023 — Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a leading pro-democracy writer imprisoned in Egypt, has won PEN Canada’s One …
Joan Leishman wins 2023 Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize
TORONTO, September 19, 2023 – Joan Leishman, recently-retired CBC veteran journalist and longtime advocate for refugee writers, has won PEN Canada’s 2023 Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize. The prize recognizes a Canadian …
Brandi Morin wins the 2023 Ken Filkow Prize
Photo credit: Ashford Hamilton Article was last updated Tuesday, September 19, 2023. TORONTO, September 18, 2023 – Brandi Morin, an award-winning Cree/Iroquois/French journalist and best-selling author, has won the PEN …
Voices of Freedom event
On September 24 at 2:30 p.m. at the Hirut Jazz Club, the PEN Canada Writers in Exile group proudly presents an afternoon of inspired readings from emancipated voices. This event is the fourth ‘chapter’ of their “Voices of Freedom” reading series, this time with writers from Tunisia, Kurdistan-Sorani, Turkey, and Syria.
Special event — Notes On An Invasion
TIFA, PEN Canada and CBC Radio’s IDEAS present Notes On An Invasion: Masha Gessen and Andrey Kurkov in conversation on Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.
Special event — Raising Our Voices
PEN Canada partners with TIFA to celebrate four annual awards and draw attention to writers across the world who are imperiled because of their written work.
Join this free CFE event: Canada Proposes Foreign Influence Registry: A lot could go wrong!
The Honourable Yuen Pau Woo in conversation with Meghan McDermott Memories of the Chinese Exclusion Act and its requirement for all Chinese to register were awakened by Canada’s recent proposal …
What Will AI Mean for Free Expression?
October 3, 2023 4pm – 5:30pm Online CFE event What Will AI Mean for Free Expression? Artificial intelligence technologies are powerful curators of information and arbiters of online content. But …
Q&A with 2023 New Voices Award Winner Christine Wu
The author on her collection of poems, Hungry Ghosts, and “how food can bring together what trauma tears apart.”