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The 2024/2025 annual report, I Hope This Letter Finds You Well, explores the power of letter writing as a tool of connection and advocacy. Edited by poet and writer Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, the ...

Photo: women enjoy a field trip that Robina coordinated. “Your experiences are your strength. You don’t need to have everything figured out—just begin.” This is the advice Robina Aryubwal would give ...

PEN Canada is seeking nominations from peers and civil society partners for two annual awards: the Ken Filkow Prize, for advancing freedom of expression in Canada, and the Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize, ...

Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Jorge Rodríguez Gómez Presidency of the National Assembly of Venezuela. We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are writing to you urgently ...

Esi Edugyan is the author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues, and Washington Black.Half-Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize ...

PEN Canada Honorary Members released since January 2003 2022 Saudi Arabia Saudi blogger, Raif Badawi, was released on March 11, 2022, after 10 years in prison and 1000 lashes for “insulting Islam” and ...

Bo Xilai, the former boss of the Chongqing Communist Party, was recently sacked after a corruption scandal involving his family. Jiang Weiping, an Honorary Member of PEN Canada, is a Chinese ...

From its inception, PEN Canada has defended the right to freedom of expression enshrined in article 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In 2024, PEN International raised concerns ...

PEN Canada unequivocally condemns the Alberta government’s decision to pursue policies that are likely to lead to widespread book bans in the province’s schools. In May, the government announced plans ...