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TORONTO, Feb. 9, 2024 /CNW/ - On Wednesday, February 28, join Jennifer Holness, Jennifer Hosten and Dr. Cheryl Thompson in discussion for Black Bodies, White Spaces, a free event set in an intimate...
TORONTO, Jan. 29, 2024 /CNW/ - PEN Canada is deeply concerned at the Edmonton Police Service's (EPS) arrest of Cree/Iroquois/French freelance journalist Brandi Morin and calls for the immediate...
TORONTO, Oct. 24, 2023 /CNW/ - Dilan Qadir, a Kurdish Canadian writer, is the recipient of the 2023 PEN Canada-Humber College Writers in Exile Scholarship, which is awarded annually to one member of...
TORONTO, Oct. 6, 2023 /CNW/ - PEN Canada celebrates the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to jailed Iranian writer and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi for "her fight against the oppression of...
TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2023 /CNW/ - Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a leading pro-democracy writer imprisoned in Egypt, has won PEN Canada's One Humanity Award. The award will be presented at a ceremony on Saturday, ...
TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2023 /CNW/ - Joan Leishman, recently-retired CBC veteran journalist and longtime advocate for refugee writers, has won PEN Canada's 2023 Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize. The prize...
TORONTO, Sept. 18, 2023 /CNW/ - Brandi Morin, an award-winning Cree/Iroquois/French journalist and best-selling author, has won the PEN Canada 2023 Ken Filkow Prize for advancing freedom of...
TORONTO, Aug. 3, 2023 /CNW/ - Christine Wu has won the 2023 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. For her winning submission, Hungry Ghosts, she will receive a $3,000 cash prize and mentorship from a...
TORONTO, Sept. 6, 2022 /CNW/ - Shams Erfan, a 24-year-old Hazara refugee from Afghanistan, has been chosen as the 2022 PEN Writer-in-Residence at George Brown College. Born and raised in the Jaghori...
TORONTO, Oct. 5, 2021 /CNW/ - Deepa Rajagopalan has won the 2021 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. Her short story Peacocks of Instagram, was chosen ahead of more than 130 submissions by jurors Donna...
Proposed law would have "chilling effect" on political expression TORONTO, Feb. 24, 2021 /CNW/ - PEN Canada has successfully intervened before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in the Canadian...
TORONTO, Sept. 10, 2020 /CNW/ - PEN Canada has successfully intervened in the Canadian Civil Liberties Association's (CCLA) constitutional challenge to the Ontario government's "gas stickers" law....
TORONTO, Aug. 27, 2020 /CNW/ - Emily (Em) Dial has been chosen as the winner of PEN Canada's 2020 New Voices Award. Dial, whose winning entry is titled Lineage Without the Bullets, won the $3,000...
New section includes prohibitions and penalties that violate Charter right to free expression TORONTO, Aug. 25, 2020 /CNW/ - PEN Canada has been granted permission by the Ontario Superior Court of...
TORONTO, Feb. 13, 2020 /CNW/ - Police barred reporters from covering the Wet'suwet'en protests, with reporters being allegedly obstructed and threatened with arrest for simply doing their jobs. This...
TORONTO, Oct. 28, 2019 /CNW/ - As a writers' organization that supports freedom of expression in all its forms, PEN Canada considers the Toronto Public Library an important ally. Its rental policy...
TORONTO, Oct. 16, 2019 /CNW/ - Adding its voice to statements from PEN America and PEN International, PEN Canada today called the Swedish Academy's choice to award Peter Handke a Nobel prize for...
TORONTO, Oct. 16, 2019 /CNW/ - PEN Canada celebrates Margaret Atwood's second Booker Prize for "The Testaments" the long-awaited sequel to her 1985 dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale." Atwood...
TORONTO, April 8, 2019 /CNW/ - Nasrin Sotoudeh, the Iranian human rights lawyer renowned for her defense of women's and children's rights, will receive the One Humanity award at PEN Canada's annual...
Call for Entries Now: Poetry, Fiction, Creative nonfiction TORONTO, March 20, 2019 /CNW/ - PEN Canada is pleased to announce that submissions for the 2019 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award are now open....
TORONTO, Sept. 14, 2018 /CNW/ - Today PEN Canada condemned the government of Ontario's invocation of Section 33 of the Charter of Rights, the Notwithstanding Clause, to sideline a Superior Court...
TORONTO, March 7, 2018 /CNW/ - PEN Canada presents Re-Imagined Homelands: Marlon James in Conversation with David Chariandy on April 17 in the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference...
TORONTO, Feb. 12, 2018 /CNW/ - PEN Canada presents Very Political and Unapologetically Black: Desmond Cole in Conversation with Jael Richardson on March 1 at the Lillian H. Smith library. Desmond...
TORONTO, Jan. 16, 2018 /CNW/ - Today PEN Canada and PEN International expressed concern at calls for the removal of a website critical of the University of British Columbia's suspension and firing of ...
TORONTO, Dec. 14, 2017 /CNW/ - Desmond Cole has won the 2017 PEN Canada/Ken Filkow Prize. The $1,000 prize is awarded annually to an individual or group whose work has advanced freedom of expression...
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