Voices of Freedom event: a reading series with exiled writers
When: Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 2:30 – 6 p.m. Where: Hirut Jazz Cafe, 2050 Danforth Avenue Step into a realm of emancipated voices at an afternoon of storytelling Toronto’s …
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International Women’s Day: Take Action for Pınar Selek (Türkiye)
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day 2024, PEN International features the case of sociologist, writer, feminist, and PEN Türkiye member Pınar Selek, who has faced a decades-long trial over …
Türkiye: Big tech should protect free speech and resist state censorship
Ahead of Türkiye’s municipal elections on March 31 2024, ARTICLE 19, Human Rights Watch and 19 rights groups and journalists’ organizations jointly call on social media platforms to uphold the …
Finding a Way Forward for Jews and Palestinians in This Terrible Time
Free online CFE event Tuesday, March 19 at 7 – 8:30 p.m. EST Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson in Conversation with Mira Sucharov Amidst the current grief, trauma, and pain and …
PEN International: As the appeal hearing of Julian Assange ends, PEN reiterates calls for his immediate release
On February 20 and 21, 2024, Julian Assange’s legal team returned to the UK High Court in London, where a panel of two judges reviewed a 2023 High Court decision …
Reading list: Black Bodies, White Spaces
Ahead of our Black History Month event, a complementary reading list, with authors from across the diaspora, telling stories of revolution, hidden history, and getting into good trouble. These nine …
You can’t read that: Banning kids’ books in Canada and the United States
By Jennifer Lanthier A dramatic rise in book challenges and book bans targeting what are often called “diverse books” in children’s literature is sweeping North America. While the bans are …
Seeking Nominations: board of directors
PEN Canada’s Nominating Committee is seeking candidates for its board of directors. What we are looking for: Candidates must show an interest in literature and freedom of expression and a commitment …
Don Gillmor leads workshop for PEN’s Writers in Exile
Don Gillmor (centre) leads the workshop for the writers, including Bushra Elfadil (left) and Lidiia Karpenko (right). In January, eight members of PEN’s Writers-in-Exile group gathered around a table in …
PEN Canada condemns disinvitation of antiracism advocates from presentation to Supreme Court of Canada clerks
PEN Canada condemns the abrupt cancellation of invitations to three anti-Black racism advocates scheduled to appear at a January 15 presentation to the law clerks of the Supreme Court of …