PEN Canada envisions a world where
writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
Shoes are quite profound: intensely personal, they go farther than that, to speak of geography, weather, work, religion, and gender.
PEN Canada’s annual general meeting will take place at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Arts and Letters Club (14 Elm St, Toronto, ON).
Prize winning authors David Chariandy and Marlon James discuss how fiction has reclaimed representations of the Caribbean within mainstream American, British and Canadian literature. The conversation will be moderated by Brendan de Caires.
Desmond Cole in conversation with Jael Richardson for Freedom to Read Week 2018.
Join PEN Canada and Martin Amis for an intimate evening of conversation ranging from Saul Bellow to Donald Trump: incendiary politics, literature, and the madness of crowds.
Six women directors follow female journalists who courageously and tirelessly work in their field despite a myriad of threats and challenges.
Join PEN on #GivingTuesday for “Codename Sally”, a new documentary that recounts PEN’s secret mission to free Salman Rushdie 25 years ago.
Jesse Wente, Desmond Cole and Rachel Giese join moderator Jesse Brown for a panel discussion asking: just how glorious and free are we?
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.
On June 22 PEN Canada hosted the 2017 Ideas in Dialogue discussion in partnership with the Toronto Public Library.
Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules