PEN Canada envisions a world where
writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
Authors Margaret Atwood, Eugene Benson and Graeme Gibson brought PEN Canada to Toronto in 1984.
This guide helps you understand prisoners’ right to read, and how you can send books to inmates.
In this sixth instalment of Free Expression Matters, we look at how threats to the freedom of assembly can affect free speech.
This Know Your Rights guide is the third in a series aimed at helping you understand your legal rights to free expression and privacy.
To mark five years since the start of the Syrian conflict, PEN International will be publishing a series of interviews with Syrian writers and journalists.
To mark five years since the start of the Syrian conflict, PEN International is publishing interviews with Syrian writers and journalists in its Syria’s Voices series.
Demand that Aron Atabek is moved to a prison within visiting distance, and for him to be allowed visits, calls and letters from his loved ones.
In this fifth instalment we look at hate speech in Canada, and specifically how Québec’s proposed legislation, Bill 59, could impact free speech.
PEN Canada speaks with Toronto Star foreign correspondent Olivia Ward about her part in our controversial February 24 event, Embattled Truths.
Hundreds of Indian writers, were sued, attacked, and murdered in 2015. Four writers talk about the future of literature and free speech in India.
Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules