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.

A community of journalists, poets, editors, translators, essayists and playwrights who have fled threats or persecution in their homelands related to their writing. PEN Canada provides solidarity and ...

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 ...

PEN Canada unequivocally condemns the Alberta government’s decision to pursue policies that are likely to lead to widespread book bans in the province’s schools. In May, the government announced plans ...

As the resident, Deligoz will engage directly with students by visiting classrooms as a guest speaker, discussing issues of freedom of expression, human rights, and the importance of democracy. An ...

Ms. Teillet’s popular history, The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation was one of the Globe & Mail’s top 100 books of 2019 and won the Carol Shield’s and ...

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 ...

On February 28, 2020, you were arrested by Hong Kong police in your home above Mong Kok district. Fifteen officers took you away in a car. The press was alerted beforehand so that you could be shamed ...

In 2024, PEN International raised concerns about a worldwide surge in book bans in such countries as Belarus, Brazil, China, Hungary, the Russian Federation, Türkiye and the USA.This trend has been ...

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 ...

I believe that writers are superstars. I really do. We record culture, we communicate culture, but most significantly, we define culture. Through books, music, TV and film, journalism and blogging, ...