Book launch event for The Uncaged Voice
Please join Cormorant Books in celebrating the official launch of the new anthology The Uncaged Voice: Stories by Writers in Exile. Masks are strongly encouraged at this event. This event …
News
PEN Canada: Journalists covering Hamas-Israel conflict must be protected
PEN Canada is deeply concerned by reports of journalists killed, injured and missing in the ongoing violence between Hamas and Israel and on the border with Lebanon Journalists who report …
PEN Canada Writers-In-Exile publish new anthology, The Uncaged Voice
ISBN: 978-1-77086-711-6 | Non-Fiction | $29.95 | Pub date: Oct 21, 2023 | Digital ARC Available The sixteen writers and journalists in The Uncaged Voice come from countries all over …
India Lays Charges Against Arundhati Roy
12 October 2023: PEN International is deeply concerned by reports that the Indian authorities have approved the prosecution of writer Arundhati Roy over a speech she gave 13 years ago. We call on the Indian authorities to immediately cease the legal proceedings against her and to end its weaponization of the legal system against writers, journalists, and others who engage in peaceful expression. Criticism of the government is not a crime.
Narges Mohammadi, Iranian activist, wins Nobel Peace Prize
PEN Canada celebrates the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to jailed Iranian writer and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran, and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.” Ms Mohammadi is currently serving a ten-year sentence in a Tehran prison after repeated arrests since 2009.
Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation
Image: People hold hands in a large circle as drummers perform on stage at event at LeBreton Flats on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Day in Ottawa, Canada on …
PEN Canada to honour Egyptian-British democracy advocate on September 23 at Toronto International Festival of Authors
Image: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, courtesy of www.freealaa.org . Photo by Mosaab El-Shamy. TORONTO, September 19, 2023 — Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a leading pro-democracy writer imprisoned in Egypt, has won PEN Canada’s One …
Joan Leishman wins 2023 Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize
TORONTO, September 19, 2023 – Joan Leishman, recently-retired CBC veteran journalist and longtime advocate for refugee writers, has won PEN Canada’s 2023 Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize. The prize recognizes a Canadian …
Brandi Morin wins the 2023 Ken Filkow Prize
Photo credit: Ashford Hamilton Article was last updated Tuesday, September 19, 2023. TORONTO, September 18, 2023 – Brandi Morin, an award-winning Cree/Iroquois/French journalist and best-selling author, has won the PEN …
Q&A with 2023 New Voices Award Winner Christine Wu
The author on her collection of poems, Hungry Ghosts, and “how food can bring together what trauma tears apart.”