PEN Canada envisions a world where
writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
Poet Mikko Harvey is the 2017 winner of the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award for unpublished writers aged 17-30.
‘Unacknowledged Victims’ by Wendy Funes is the winning entry from the 2016 Escribir sin Miedo Prize for investigative/public interest journalism in Honduras.
Adela Navarro is the director of, Zeta, one of the only news outlets in Mexico to regularly report on drug trafficking, corruption and organized crime.
Tienchi Martin-Liao reflects on the life and work of her colleague, Liu Xiaobo, who passed away on July 13, 2017 while on medical parole.
Marian Botsford Fraser’s recollection of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese poet Liu Xiaobo.
Liu Xiaobo who is suddenly ‘free’ isn’t free at all; but let us celebrate this great man’s greater, more lasting freedom, so terribly earned: to be back in the arms of his beloved.
Avie Bennett, publisher and supporter of PEN Canada, passed away on June 2, 2017. Douglas Gibson reflects on Bennett’s life and work.
Do you have photos of the 1992 PEN Canada Benefit featuring Salman Rushdie?
PEN Canada member Kim Echlin profiles the Gudran Association for Art and Development in Egypt.
Report on Inspiritus Press’ pop up street reading tour for National Poetry Month and PEN Canada.
Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules