The RBC / PEN Canada New Voices Award is an annual award that aims to encourage new writing and provide a space for unpublished Canadian writers. The prize is open to all genres of writing: writers ...

Free Narges Coalition and partners urge UN Human Rights Council to intervene for Narges Mohammadi’s urgent medical release November 18, 2024 To the United Nations Human Rights Council, We, the … ...

As every year, on November 15, the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN calls for urgent international action to protect writers ...

This year for Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN is calling for urgent international action from November 15 – 29 to protect ...

In July 1960, International PEN established a committee to monitor countries “where writers had been imprisoned because they spoke or wrote their minds.” Initially, the Writers in Prison Committee ...

For defenders of writers in peril. The Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize is awarded annually to a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who in the past year has provided significant help to a writer or ...

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Introduced in 2006, The One Humanity Award is presented by the members of PEN Canada to a writer whose work transcends the boundaries of national divides and inspires connections across cultures.

Dear Members of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, We, the undersigned 34 freedom of expression and human rights organisations, are writing regarding the recent submission to the ...

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 ...

This year for Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN is calling for urgent international action from November 15 – 29 to protect four writers targeted for their peaceful free expression … As every year, on ...

Hundreds of local newspapers have been shut down; investigative units that flourished have been eliminated in all but a handful of outlets. CTV cancelled the weekly W5 program. What went wrong? What’s ...