PEN Canada is deeply concerned by CTV’s abrupt cancellation of a planned election misinformation segment, following what appears to be pressure from online harassment. Earlier this ...

PEN Canada is accepting submissions for the 2025 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. The award encourages new writing and ...

Amid rising political tensions between the U.S. and Canada, and escalating threats of a broader trade war, the downstream effects of tariffs on writers, readers, publishers, and booksellers will be ...

PEN Canada is accepting submissions for the 2025 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. The award encourages new writing and provides a space for unpublished writers (age 17 and over). … ...

The annual award supports and celebrates emerging talent in Canadian literature. Unpublished writers are encouraged to submit short stories, creative nonfiction, journalism, and poetry. The ...

Nancy Huggett reads from her collection as she accepts her 2024 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award at a ceremony in October 2024. “To find the form that accommodates the mess, that’s the task of the ...

We write from PEN Canada, PEN America and the Artists at Risk Connection, nonpartisan organizations that defend freedom of speech, to express our concern about the abrupt cancellation of an exhibit by ...

The RBC / PEN Canada New Voices Award is an annual award that aims to encourage new writing and provide a space for unpublished Canadian writers. The prize is open to all genres of writing: writers ...

Gezahegn Mekonnen Demissie is an Ethiopian journalist and filmmaker, one of the founding members of PEN Ethiopia, and Executive Director of Bridge Entertainment. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada, ...

In July 1960, International PEN established a committee to monitor countries “where writers had been imprisoned because they spoke or wrote their minds.” Initially, the Writers in Prison Committee ...