Voices of Freedom reading series
November 24, 2024 | 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM Hirut Jazz Cafe, 2050 Danforth Avenue, Toronto Free admission | open to the public Step into an afternoon of inspiration and …
Tag: writers in exile
Tala Motazedi wins Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholarship
Tala Motazedi, a screenwriter and playwright originally from Iran, is the recipient of the 2024 PEN Canada-Humber College Writers in Exile Scholarship. During her year at Humber, she will work …
Applications open for Writers-in-Exile Humber Scholarship
The Humber School for Writers is seeking applications from PEN Canada’s Writers-in-Exile members for its 28-week graduate certificate online mentorship program commencing in September 2024. The PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholarship (a full scholarship) is …
Author Readings and Book Signing for ‘The Uncaged Voice – Stories by Writers in Exile’
When: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 | 7 to 9:30 p.m. (Doors at 6:30 p.m) Where: Old Town Hall (460 Botsford Street, New Market, ON) How: Free admission | Light refreshments …
A Question of Trust: reporting on Ciudad Juárez’s serial killings
By Luis Horacio Nájera In the summer of 1995, while working as a crime reporter for El Diario, Ciudad Juárez’s most influential newspaper, my duties as a journalist clashed with …
Don Gillmor leads workshop for PEN’s Writers in Exile
Don Gillmor (centre) leads the workshop for the writers, including Bushra Elfadil (left) and Lidiia Karpenko (right). In January, eight members of PEN’s Writers-in-Exile group gathered around a table in …
Shams Erfan, Why I Support PEN
PEN Canada’s end-of-year campaign launched Tuesday, November 28 and runs until December 31. To understand PEN Canada’s impact, we’re sharing testimonials from the PEN community. They are writers in exile, writers …
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 …