The RBC / PEN Canada New Voices Award is an annual award that aims to encourage new writing and provide a space for unpublished Canadian writers.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

This year for Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN is calling for urgent international action from November 15 – 29 to protect ...

As every year, on November 15, the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN calls for urgent international action to protect writers ...

Free Narges Coalition and partners urge UN Human Rights Council to intervene for Narges Mohammadi’s urgent medical release November 18, 2024 To the United Nations Human Rights Council, We, the … ...

Journalist, writer, poet | Situation: Imprisoned Journalist, writer and poet, Kaciaryna Andrejeva (real name Bachvałava) is ...

A new report finds scholars and university students face frequent and pervasive attacks on their academic freedom and the autonomy of their institutions — from North America to the Middle East, Asia, ...

Journalist, publisher, activist | Situation: Imprisoned Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy campaigner, writer, and founder of the now ...

Writer, blogger, software developer | Situation: Imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah remains ...

Journalist | Situation: House Arrest Jose Rubén Zamora Marroquín, a leading Guatemalan journalist and founder of elPeriódico, ...

When writers around the world find themselves in danger, they know they can come to PEN centres for help. PEN Canada receives multiple requests per year from writers-in-peril who need assistance, and ...

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 ...

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