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

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Georgio Russell and Anna Sokolova have won the 2025 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. It is the first time the prize has been awarded to two writers. Each poet will receive a $3,000 cash prize and ...

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 ...

The journalist and legal scholar Amy Lai has been awarded the 2021 PEN Canada/Ken Filkow Prize for courageously reporting on the “threats faced by both individuals and democratic institutions” in her ...

The Canadian photojournalist Amber Bracken has won PEN Canada’s 2022 Ken Filkow Prize for advancing freedom of expression in Canada. Bracken’s work combines an interest in photography, journalism and ...