Arzu Yildiz—featured writer for FTRW 2023
Arzu Yildiz—featured writer for Freedom to Read Week 2023 The following extract is from The Street, an unpublished novel by Arzu Yildiz which is currently being translated from the original Turkish …
Author: PEN-Canada
Take action for Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski
Take Action for Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatski on International Mother Language Day International Mother Language Day, held every year on February 21, is observed to promote linguistic and cultural diversity, and multilingualism. …
Watch “The Grab” at Hot Docs, March 10 @ 7pm
20th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival The Grab Date: Friday, March 10, 2023 at 7:00 pm Location: Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St W, Toronto PEN Canada is …
What I Have Learned from Exiled Journalists
Anneli Andre-Barrett is a senior volunteer for the PEN Canada Writers in Exile (WiE) community, a Refugee Integration Mentor, and Skills Development Team member of Ontario’s Private Refugee Sponsor Network …
Voices of Freedom #3 — readings from exiled writers
Join us on Sunday, March 26 at 3:00 pm at the Hirut Ethiopian Jazz Club, 2050 Danforth Avenue, Toronto to hear the work of four celebrated writers who have now …
Toward a Practice of Collectivity
Toward a Practice of Collectivity By El Jones The following essay appears in Abolitionist Intimacies, and is reprinted with the permission of Fernwood Publishing. It is the summer of 2020, …
You’re invited to the launch of Em Dial’s Virtual Poetry Exhibition THE BALL
In “The Ball,” poet Em Dial explores how the mythos of the overtly sexual and desperately self-loathing “quad***n” has been crafted by some of the most atrocious sides of science and history. Throughout this exhibition are poems, self-portraits, and artifacts through which an artist attempts to separate themself, their queerness, and their complex familial history from the disturbing resonance of the American imagination.
Censorship Is No Friend of Social Justice – recording available now
Censorship Is No Friend of Social Justice: Protecting Intellectual Freedom in Polarized Times WATCH THE RECORDING HERE January 25th 4:00 – 5:30 pm EST online Emily Knox in conversation with …
Canada’s War on Whistleblowers – recording available now
WATCH THE RECORDING HERE Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023 Time: 3:00 – 4:30 EST In more than 15 years of operation, costing over $100 million, Canada’s federal whistleblower law has not protected …
Celebrating Salman Rushdie’s “Victory City”
Celebrating Salman Rushdie’s “Victory City” Be part of an unmissable evening celebrating the literary genius of Salman Rushdie. Two global stars of the book world, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman, …