The Shoe Project is back at work in Toronto, after sold-out performances in Vancouver and Calgary. Get ready for ten new stories of arrival -- and [...]

During Canada's "Freedom to Read Week", The London Central Library and Global Importune will be hosting an event celebrating the works of banned, persecuted and [...]

Tickets are now sold out! PEN Canada pays tribute to the life and work of Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson in a conversation with Rick Mercer. [...]

  This event has been cancelled.   Tuesday Jan 29, 2019, 4.10 PM - 6.30PM York University Keele Campus, York Lanes, Room 280N, M3J 1P3 Thousands [...]

On Wednesday, December 5, all PEN Canada members are invited to visit our offices between 9am–4pm to send postcard messages of solidarity to imprisoned writers [...]

The murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi has jeopardized America’s support for the Saudi monarchy and highlighted the West’s willingness to tolerate or ignore repressive behaviour in its allies. Historian, biographer, journalist and editor Sam Tanenhaus and award-winning CBC journalist Susan Ormiston will discuss the consequences of the murder and consider how they relate to the threats and violence faced by thousands of working journalists in other parts of the world.

The Poetess is the inspiring story of a woman risking her personal safety and seizing an opportunity. Presented in partnership with the Human Rights Watch Toronto Film Festival.

Prize winning authors Marlon James and David Chariandy 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.

Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings) discusses Akira Kurosawa's visionary masterpiece, Rashomon, and its lasting influence on cinema, literature, and popular culture, including James' own highly anticipated Dark Star trilogy.

Desmond Cole in conversation with Jael Richardson, founder and artistic director of the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), on writing the black experience in Canada. Presented as part of Freedom to Read Week 2018.