Light refreshments will be available from 6:00-6:30 p.m., before the show starts. This event is FREE and open to the public.

Rachel Maddow and Rebecca Solnit in conversation on the seismic changes taking place across the US political landscape. With a personal introduction from Margaret Atwood The seismic political changes ...

An online panel exploring what unprecedented attacks on arts and culture in the U.S. mean for Canada and for our artists, writers, and cultural organizations.

What is the writer’s role in a world of ongoing genocides, resurgent authoritarianism, and a worsening climate crisis? Is it to inform? To change minds? To encourage action, or just to write? She has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You will not know this, but yours was the first book by a Black woman I was ever taught in a classroom. I think you already knew, when you wrote Nervous Conditions, how many Black girls were sitting ...

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, ...

Ira Wells has been elected as president of PEN Canada. Wells is a critic, essayist, professor of literature, and author of three books, the latest of which, On Book Banning (Biblioasis, 2025), ...