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For more than a decade, the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award has recognized excellence in emerging, yet-to-be published Canadian writers. The 2025 prize is currently open for submissions — ...
George Brown College, Department of English and Communication, Toronto, Canada Term: September 2025 – April 2026 Remuneration ...
In a world where hundreds of writers and journalists are threatened and freedom of expression and liberal democracy face an uncertain future, you, as a patron, can help to defend these freedoms as a ...
Kim Echlin PEN is a dynamic place to be right now. The 57th International Meeting of the Writers for Peace Committee this ...
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 ...
Imprisoned Palestinian poet and visual artist Ashraf Fayadh will receive the PEN Canada One Humanity Award, October 20 at the International Festival of Authors.
Arzu Yildiz at work as a court reporter in Ankara, Turkiye. Photo taken inside the courthouse. Do Canadian media truly ...
Sleeping next to the American elephant, we in Canada cannot but be affected. The times call for us to strenuously assert our ...
PEN Canada condemns the Ontario government’s use of the Notwithstanding Clause to impose restrictions on third-party political advertising for a full twelve months before a provincial election.