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.
Author: PEN-Canada
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 …
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.”
Meta silences Canadian journalism
A whole world of disinformation is at your fingertips on Google and Meta. Quack remedies, conspiracy theories, fake news manufactured by bot farms in Russia and China, are a click away. But if you are looking for reliable, fact-based Canadian news, or long-form essays by our country’s leading thinkers and writers, well, that’s harder to find, and about to get a whole lot harder, courtesy of Facebook.
Christine Wu wins 2023 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award
“Hungry Ghosts is a deeply moving and masterfully crafted collection of poems that surpasses the boundaries of memory, love, family, and personal growth,” reads the jury citation. “The writer’s exquisite precision and grace, infused with profound wisdom, skillfully navigates the delicate art of letting go, effortlessly weaving the tapestry of past and present.”
PEN mourns the death of Victoria Amelia, PEN Ukraine Member and Writer
July 3, 2023– PEN International joins PEN Ukraine in mourning the killing of writer, PEN Ukraine member and human rights defender Victoria Amelina, following a horrific Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk, Eastern Ukraine on June 27, 2023. Amelina was seriously injured and rushed to hospital in Dnipro. She passed away on July 1, 2023. She was 37 years old.
Peter Showler receives the Order of Canada
Peter Showler Photo credit: Hill Times PEN Canada congratulates Peter Showler on being named to the Order of Canada, an honour he richly deserves. Peter recently stepped off the PEN …
2023 Call for Applications from PEN Canada Writers-in-Exile Members
The Humber School for Writers is seeking applications from PEN Canada’s Writers-in-Exile community for its 28-week graduate certificate online mentorship program commencing September 2023. The PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholarship (a full scholarship) is …
WfPC | Declaration on the Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine
Declaration of PEN International’s Writers for Peace Committee on the Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine ‘We, members of PEN International’s Writers for Peace Committee, once again urge the Russian authorities …