Support PEN Canada on Giving Tuesday 2022

Together We Stand for Freedom of Expression

This past August, the brutal attack on Sir Salman Rushdie was a chilling reminder that freedom of expression can never be taken for granted. PEN Canada strives to honour, protect and defend this hard-won human right for writers, journalists, and ordinary citizens. For everyone.

To inquire freely, to freely express opinions and engage in fair debates is to value all of humanity’s voices, and vigorously oppose the forces that seek to control, diminish, undermine or silence dissent and peaceful criticism.

This Giving Tuesday, on November 29th, please support PEN Canada’s work to protect writers and journalists whose lives and livelihoods are on the line, in defense of freedom of expression, here in Canada and abroad. Stand with us to defend freedom of expression, to defend everyone’s right to have a voice.

Each day, in the lead-up to Giving Tuesday, we will be sharing a letter a letter of support from Canadian writer members and Writer-in-Exile members who passionately support PEN Canada’s mission.