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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 …
On September 24 at 2:30 p.m. at the Hirut Jazz Club, the PEN Canada Writers in Exile group proudly presents an afternoon of inspired readings from emancipated voices. This event is the fourth ‘chapter’ of their “Voices of Freedom” reading series, this time with writers from Tunisia, Kurdistan-Sorani, Turkey, and Syria.
The Humber School for Writers is seeking applications from PEN Canada’s Writers-in-Exile community for its 28-week graduate certificate online mentorship program commencing September 2023. The PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholarship (a full scholarship) is …
Arzu Yildiz—featured writer for Freedom to Read Week 2023 The following extract is from The Street, an unpublished novel by Arzu Yildiz which is currently being translated from the original Turkish …
TORONTO, September 6, 2022 — Shams Erfan, a 24-year-old Hazara refugee from Afghanistan, has been chosen as the 2022 PEN Writer-in-Residence at George Brown College.
Humber School for Writers Creative Writing (Correspondence) Program The Humber School for Writers is seeking applications from PEN Canada’s Writers-in-Exile group for its 28-week graduate certificate program commencing in September 2022. The PEN …
Abdulrahman Matar is a Syrian-born writer, journalist, poet and novelist. He is a member of PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile group, the Syrian writers’ Association, and the Writers’ Union of …
Ava Homa is a journalist, activist, and critically-acclaimed author of “Daughters of Smoke and Fire” (HarperCollins, 2020). She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor.
Maria Saba is the 2020 PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholar. An Iran-born writer, storyteller and arts educator, Saba has published three books and over a hundred articles, interviews, and stories.
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.