PEN Canada - PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom …
Oct 31, 2024 · The International Press Institute (IPI), Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) and 26 press freedom, freedom of expression and human rights organizations vehemently condemn the arrest of three Kurdish journalists last …
Who we are - PEN Canada
Oct 30, 2024 · 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 world, we advocate for writers who are ...
About - PEN Canada
PEN Canada. PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression and aids writers in peril.
Programs - PEN Canada
Oct 30, 2024 · PEN Canada works on behalf of writers, at home and abroad, who have been forced into silence for writing the truth as they see it. The writers we support face a variety of dangers.
Free Them All: Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2024 - PEN Canada
2 days ago · As every year, on November 15, the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN calls for urgent international action to protect writers and journalists across the globe, who increasingly find themselves targeted for peaceful dissent. This year, from November 15 – 29 , 2024 , PEN is spotlighting four writers targeted for their peaceful free expression work: Kaciaryna Andrejeva (Belarus), Jimmy Lai ...
join - PEN Canada
If you have any difficulty submitting this form, please contact Theresa Johnson at 416 703 8448 ext 2221 or by email at tjohnson[at]pencanada.ca.. Benefits of membership. Our members are some of Canada’s most distinguished writers, translators, and editors in a community of freedom of expression advocates.
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.
Writers in Exile - PEN Canada
Oct 21, 2023 · PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile Program provides solidarity and support for writers living in exile in Canada. Our community includes journalists, poets, editors, translators, essayists and playwrights who have been forced from their homelands due to their written work.. Through our program and community, members can develop their professional skills through residencies, workshops, public ...
History - PEN Canada
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.
Take action for Kaciaryna Andrejeva - PEN Canada
2 days ago · Journalist, writer and poet, Kaciaryna Andrejeva (real name Bachvałava) is serving an eight-year prison sentence in Belarus on bogus charges of ‘state treason’. Andrejeva is currently being held in a medium-security penal colony in Homel, southeastern Belarus. Write a message of hope to ...
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