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For more than a decade, the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award has recognized excellence in emerging, yet-to-be published Canadian writers. The 2025 prize is currently open for submissions — unpublished …
The Writers for Peace Committee, founded in 1984, is a committee of PEN International. Each year, the committee meets in Bled, Slovenia, with this year’s meeting (April 7-10, 2025) focusing …
Arzu Yildiz at work as a court reporter in Ankara, Turkiye. Photo taken inside the courthouse. Written by Arzu Yildiz Do Canadian media truly reflect the voices and colours of …
This letter first appeared in our March 2025 newsletter. You can subscribe to PEN Canada’s monthly newsletter to receive the latest free expression news and hear about our PEN community. …
Nancy Huggett reads from her collection as she accepts her 2024 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award at a ceremony in October 2024. “To find the form that accommodates the mess, …
Thank you to all of our patrons, members, donors, supporters, volunteers, writers, readers, peers, and friends who have been a part of the PEN community in the past year. We …
The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has been a devastating and prolonged conflict led by the Syrian government under Bashar al-Assad. The conflict has caused immense humanitarian suffering, …
by Brendan de Caires (Executive Director, PEN Canada) Twenty years ago, Florian von Donnersmarck’s dark film “The Lives of Others” showed how easily a nation state – in the form …
This year for Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN is calling for urgent international action from November 15 – 29 to protect four writers targeted for their peaceful free expression …
The Graeme Gibson Talk is an annual conversation between writers with expert knowledge of an urgent political, social, cultural or economic issue. The event was established in 2021 to honour …