Remembering Aaron Berhane
Aaron Berhane’s sudden passing from Covid-19 on May 1st was a devastating blow to PEN’s Writers-in-Exile group, which he chaired.
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Q&A with Ava Homa, inaugural PEN/Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholar
Ava Homa is a journalist, activist, and critically-acclaimed author of “Daughters of Smoke and Fire” (HarperCollins, 2020). She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor.
Bangladesh’s Embattled Bloggers:
As the trial for the killing of Avijit Roy reaches a verdict, a friend recalls the atmosphere at the Ekushey Book Fair a year after the iconic secularist was murdered.
Q&A with Maria Saba, 2020 PEN/Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholar
Maria Saba is the 2020 PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholar. An Iran-born writer, storyteller and arts educator, Saba has published three books and over a hundred articles, interviews, and stories.
COVID-19 has Deepened Our Dependence on Surveillance Technology
Largely without public debate – and absent any new safeguards – we’ve become even more dependent on a technological ecosystem that is notoriously insecure, poorly regulated, highly invasive and prone to serial abuse.
Q&A with New Voices Winner Em Dial
A Q&A with Em Dial, winner of the 2020 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award.
Q&A with Noor Naga on the New Voices Award Mentorship with Anne Michaels
Noor Naga is the winner of the 2019 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award for unpublished writers aged 17-30. The award, funded by the RBC Emerging Artists Project, includes a $3,000 …
Q&A with Onder Deligoz, Winner of the 2018 Humber-PEN Writers-In-Exile Scholarship
Onder Deligoz is a Turkish author and journalist currently residing in Canada. He was the recipient of the 2018 Humber School of Writers, PEN Writers in Exile Scholarship. The full …
Q&A with Filkow Prize Winner Tim Bousquet
PEN Canada’s Ken Filkow prize recognizes an individual or group that has advanced freedom of expression in Canada.
Night in Review: 2018 PEN Canada Gala with Martin Amis
Christopher Hitchens memorably described Martin Amis’s style as “a synthesis of astonishing wit and moral assiduity.” Both were much in evidence as Amis spoke with the novelist and biographer Charlie Foran at PEN Canada’s 2018 gala dinner.