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Kern is the author of the recently published YA novel Boys and Girls Screaming (DCB/Cormorant Books), and the upcoming YA novel And Then There Was Us (Tundra/Penguin Random House/2024). He …
Photo: Alice Munro speaks at a 2009 PEN Canada event at the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Written by Bruce Walsh “Smallest photo the Globe ever ran,” we laughed. But …
By Luis Horacio Nájera In the summer of 1995, while working as a crime reporter for El Diario, Ciudad Juárez’s most influential newspaper, my duties as a journalist clashed with …
By Marcello Di Cintio For the past six months, since the most recent horrors in Gaza began, I’ve been using my Gazan friends’ Facebook activity as proof-of-life. I begin to …
This preliminary response was originally published on March 29, 2024 in PEN Canada’s monthly newsletter, as part of the Grace Westcott’s President’s Message. Subscribe to get monthly updates sent to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Go Sherab Gyatso is one of four cases PEN International is featuring for this year’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer. Tashi Delek, Go Sherab Gyatso la, We were born on …
Image: People hold hands in a large circle as drummers perform on stage at event at LeBreton Flats on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Day in Ottawa, Canada on …