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Q&A with Amber Bracken, Canadian photojournalist and 2022 Ken Filkow Prize winner

Amber Bracken is a Canadian photojournalist who has reported extensively on the impacts of colonization, often affecting Indigenous peoples in North America. PEN Canada awarded her the 2022 Ken Filkow Prize for her courageous coverage of the 2021 coastal pipeline protests on Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation territory in British Columbia. Bracken has also won the Contemporary Issues category of the 2017 World Press Photo awards and in 2022 won the overall World Press Photo of the Year.

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Q&A with Chris Tenove on Toxic Disinformation

A Q&A with researcher Chris Tenove about the Global Reporting Centre’s study of online disinformation.

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Q&A with Turkish journalist Arzu Yildiz, 2021 recipient of Humber College Scholarship

Arzu Yildiz is a Turkish journalist who has covered high profile murder cases and the illegal arms trade to Syria. She has worked as an editor and senior reporter in …

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Q&A with 2021 New Voices Winner Deepa Rajagopalan

Deepa Rajagopalan is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph, and is a graduate of the Creative Writing program from the University of Toronto. She is …

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Q&A with Amy Lai, winner of the 2021 Ken Filkow Prize

Amy Lai is a lawyer and author of “The Right to Parody” (Cambridge University Press) and an upcoming book on free speech and higher education (under contract with University of Michigan Press). She is the winner of PEN Canada’s Ken Filkow Prize for freedom of expression.

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The gratitude gap: What does Canada owe refugees, and what do they owe us?

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Daniel Ortega and the Crushing of the Nicaraguan Dream

Nicaraguans now find ourselves with no recourse, no law, no police to protect us. Habeas corpus has been replaced by a law that allows the state to imprison people who are under investigation for up to 90 days. Who will they come for next?

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Empowering Arab Voices: A Q&A with Abdulrahman Matar

Abdulrahman Matar is a Syrian-born writer, journalist, poet and novelist. He is a member of PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile group, the Syrian writers’ Association, and the Writers’ Union of …

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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.