Board members are expected to contribute to PEN activities, participate in quarterly board meetings, and take part in ...

The Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize is awarded annually to a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who has provided significant help to a writer or journalist outside Canada who has faced threats, violence ...

Moderated by leading journalist and editor, Jessica Johnson, the event brings together two award-winning writers, Ray Robertson (The Right to be Wrong) and Ira Wells (On Book Banning) to examine why ...

The Humber School for Writers is seeking applications from PEN Canada’s Writers-in-Exile members for its Creative Writing ...

Starting in April, twelve writers in exile members—in two groups of six—will take part in monthly workshops over the course ...

Reza Baraheni, Iranian dissident, prodigious author and former president of PEN Canada (2001-03) has died, at the age of 86, in Toronto. He is survived by his wife Sanaz Sehhati of Toronto; daughter, ...

A dramatic rise in book challenges and book bans targeting what are often called “diverse books” in children’s literature is sweeping North America. While the bans are mostly seen as local issues in ...

Nancy Huggett has won the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. For her winning submission, Revelation, she will receive a $3,000 cash prize and mentorship from a Canadian author. A jury of Canadian ...

PEN Canada is a nonpartisan charity that celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression and helps exiled writers to establish new lives in Canada. PEN Canada believes that literature is the ...

Dear Prime Minister, Ministers, and Honourable Leaders of the Opposition, We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are writing to call for the complete withdrawal of Bill C-2, An Act ...

Jimmy Lai, a journalist, writer, media publisher, and pro-democracy activist, has won PEN Canada’s One Humanity Award. Lai, who has been in solitary confinement since December 2020, is currently ...