PEN Canada - PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom …
“Free Speech is the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.” — Salman Rushdie PEN Canada, Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto International Festival of Authors and Writers’ Trust of Canada …
Who we are - PEN Canada
Founded in 1983, PEN Canada is a nonpartisan organization of writers and readers. We fight censorship, help free persecuted writers from prison, assist exiled writers who live in Canada, and promote literature. Writers are central to PEN. Around the …
About - PEN Canada
PEN Canada. PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression and aids writers in peril.
A PEN year-in-review - PEN Canada
Dec 19, 2024 · From Newmarket to Mississauga, and all around Toronto, the PEN Canada Writers in Exile showcased their anthology, The Uncaged Voice, at book signings, author events, literary festivals, and talks. The writers were spotted at the Arabic Canadian Book Fair, the Word on the Street Toronto, and inside the pages of the Literary Review of Canada.. You can find a copy of The Uncaged Voice at your ...
History - PEN Canada
Jul 9, 2024 · We are the Canadian chapter of PEN International, founded in England in 1921 to represent “Poets, Essayists and Novelists.” PEN International was conceived by Mrs. C.A. Dawson Scott and the first PEN Club was founded shortly thereafter in London by Mrs. Scott and John Galsworthy, who would become PEN International’s first President.
PEN Canada publishes Annual Report, “The things we could not …
Jun 18, 2024 · At the 2024 annual general meeting, PEN Canada announced its latest Annual Report, titled The Things We Could Not Carry.. Alongside an accounting of the last year’s activities and the organization’s current priorities, the report looks at the cost of leaving one’s home, whether planned over weeks and months, or suddenly in the middle of the night.
Annual General Meeting 2024 - PEN Canada
PEN Canada’s Annual General Meeting will take place online Thursday, June 13 at 5:30 pm EDT, on Zoom.All PEN Canada members are encouraged to attend, and RSVP is required.. A full AGM package (Agenda, Minutes from last year’s AGM, 2024 Annual Report and Zoom link) will be sent out the week of to members who RSVP’d.
Dieu Cay, Why I Support PEN - PEN Canada
Dec 19, 2023 · 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 in peril, and emerging writers. They are teachers, novelists, journalists, activists, bloggers and poets.
Mission, Vision, Values - PEN Canada
VISION. PEN Canada envisions a world where writers are free to write, readers are free to read, and freedom of expression prevails. MISSION. PEN Canada is a nonpartisan organization of writers, and readers, that works with others to defend freedom of expression as a basic human right, at home and abroad.
Shams Erfan, Why I Support PEN - PEN Canada
Dec 5, 2023 · 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 in peril, and emerging writers. They are teachers, novelists, journalists, activists, bloggers and poets.