ARZU YILDIZ WINS 2021 WRITERS-IN-EXILE SCHOLARSHIP
Arzu Yildiz is the recipient of the 2021 PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholarship, which provides peer mentorship to one member of PEN Canada’s Writers-in-Exile program each year.
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Deepa Rajagopalan wins 2021 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award
Deepa Rajagopalan has won the 2021 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. Her short story Peacocks of Instagram, was chosen ahead of more than 130 submissions by jurors Donna Bailey Nurse, Kaie Kellough and Thea Lim.
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 …
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.
Amy Lai wins 2021 PEN Canada/Ken Filkow Prize for Freedom of Expression
The journalist and legal scholar Amy Lai has been awarded the 2021 PEN Canada/Ken Filkow Prize for courageously reporting on the “threats faced by both individuals and democratic institutions” in her native Hong Kong, and for ground-breaking scholarship on freedom of expression.
PEN Canada condemns Ontario’s use of the Notwithstanding Clause
PEN Canada condemns the Ontario government’s use of the Notwithstanding Clause to impose restrictions on third-party political advertising for a full twelve months before a provincial election.
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 …
2021 Call for Applications from PEN Canada Writers-in-Exile
Humber School for Writers Creative Writing (Correspondence) Program The Humber School for Writers is seeking applications from PEN Canada’s Writers-in-Exile for its 28-week graduate certificate program commencing in September 2021. A full …
Belarus: Urgently end escalating crackdown on independent voices
The Belarussian authorities must urgently end their relentless crackdown on independent and critical voices, PEN International said today, as attacks against writers, journalists and cultural workers in Belarus continue unabated.
OPT/Israel: freedom of expression in OPT and Israel must be respected without discrimination
PEN International is appalled by the escalating situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and expresses its grave concerns over the mounting violations to freedom of expression in recent days.