PEN Canada - PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom …
Oct 30, 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
6 days ago · 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 persecuted, imprisoned and tortured for expressing ...
About - PEN Canada
About. PEN Canada…. Helps free writers who are persecuted and, in many countries, imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing themselves. Fights censorship and defends the right to freedom of expression. PEN has intervened in a number of landmark legal cases in the name of journalistic integrity and artistic freedom. Educates Canadian ...
programs - PEN Canada
Jan 10, 2024 · If you would like more information about any of PEN Canada’s programs, please contact Brendan de Caires, Programs and Communications Coordinator, at 416 703 8448 x2224 or by email at bdecaires@pencanada.ca. 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.
Canadian and Legal Affairs - PEN Canada
PEN Canada’s Canadian Issues Program focuses on free expression issues of national interest. It is overseen by the Canadian and Legal Affairs Committee (CLAC). The Canadian and Legal Affairs Committee (CLAC) monitors laws and actions that limit or violate the right to free expression guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Background - PEN Canada
Jan 10, 2024 · Background. 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 ...
Category: News - PEN Canada
Jimmy Lai to receive PEN Canada One Humanity Award. 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 facing …. News.
Mission, Vision, Values - PEN Canada
MISSION. Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. PEN Canada is a nonpartisan organization of writers ...
Submissions open for the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award
Mar 16, 2024 · PEN Canada is now accepting English-language submissions for the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. 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 shortlisted submissions will be judged by a distinguished jury of Canadian writers.
Dieu Cay, Why I Support PEN - PEN Canada
Dec 19, 2023 · PEN Canada’s end-of-year campaign launched Tuesday, November 28 and runs until December 31. To understand PEN Canada’s impact, we’re sharing testimonials from the PEN community. They are writers in exile, writers in peril, and emerging writers. They are teachers, novelists, journalists, activists, bloggers and poets.