Patron Update November 2020
Dear Friends and Supporters– In spite of these challenging times, PEN Canada continues its important work defending freedom of expression, supporting writers in peril and celebrating the power of words …
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Maria Saba Wins PEN Canada-Humber College Scholarship
Maria Saba is the recipient of the 2020 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.
Q&A with New Voices Winner Em Dial
A Q&A with Em Dial, winner of the 2020 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award.
Emily Dial Wins 2020 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award
Poet Em Dial wins PEN Canada’s New Voices Award for 2020 August 27 (Toronto) Emily (Em) Dial has been chosen as the winner of PEN Canada’s 2020 New Voices Award. …
PEN Canada Intervenes in CCLA Court Case Against Provincial Government
TORONTO (July 6) PEN Canada will today intervene in the Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s case against the provincial government. The CCLA’s lawsuit alleges that certain stickers mandated by law to …
Turkey: The Burden of Freedom
Önder Deligöz is a Turkish journalist and author who currently resides in Canada. He was the 2018 PEN Canada Scholar at The Humber School for Writers. Freedom is the biggest …
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Noor Naga is the winner of the 2019 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award for unpublished writers aged 17-30.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 …
United Kingdom: Arron Banks Urged to Drop SLAPP Lawsuit Against Carole Cadwalladr
We, the undersigned organisations, welcome today’s judgment on meaning in the case of Arron Banks vs Carole Cadwalladr. The judgment clarified the context of the comments that form the basis …
Önder Deligöz: Fiction, Feelings and Freedom
In the fall of 2019, PEN Canada collaborated with Ryerson’s Community Engaged Learning & Teaching (CELT) initiative and Literatures of Modernity graduate program in the Faculty of Arts to bring members of our Writers-in-Exile network into the classroom.
Oleg Sentsov in conversation with Natalia Kaliada and David Lan
‘They couldn’t take everything from me’ – an evening with Oleg Sentsov Ukrainian director and writer Oleg Sentsov is from Crimea. When Russia annexed the peninsula, he was arrested and …