PEN members and friends are invited to see Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei accept the Adrienne Clarkson Prize for Global Citizenship.

Join us Sunday, September 24 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Harbourfront Centre for the 28th annual Word On The Street Festival.

Adela Navarro will discuss the hostile climate for free expression in Mexico at Ryerson University on September 13.

Indigenous Voices Rising June 22, 2017 - 7:00 - 8:00 pm Toronto Reference Library - Atrium (map) Free Admission Has mainstream success changed the role [...]

Come check out PEN Canada's new offices and celebrate the launch of PEN International's "Make Space" global campaign, supporting the work of displaced writers.

A pop up street reading tour organized by Inspiritus Press for National Poetry Month, on Saturday April 29. All proceeds in support on PEN Canada.

This intimate dinner will celebrate a landmark literary and human rights anniversary: when Rushdie famously emerged from hiding to attend a PEN Canada benefit twenty-five years ago.

An inside look at what’s happening to journalists and free expression in Mexico.

1,000 Bird Poems by Necakov will feature guest poets reading about 40 tweet-length poems by Toronto poet Lillian Necakov.

Writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis in conversation with Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost, To End All Wars, and, most recently, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, about the lessons we learn from writers and activists battling fascism, racism, and other forms of injustice.