Atefeh Khademolreza, an Iranian-Canadian writer and filmmaker, is the recipient of the 2025 PEN Canada Humber ...

Atefeh Khademolreza, an Iranian-Canadian writer and filmmaker, is the recipient of the 2025 PEN Canada Humber Writers-in-Exile Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded annually to a member of the PEN ...

Given the enormous size of the U.S. book market relative to the Canadian market, and the pervasiveness of U.S. cultural trends, what happens in the United States affects Canadian writers and Canadian ...

PEN Canada was founded in 1983. We are a nonpartisan organization of writers and readers. One of our central roles is to defend the right to freedom of expression. We raise our voices against domestic ...

Photo of Christine Wu, credit to Leah Pohlman “There’s a lot of emotion unsaid between my family and myself,” Christine Wu says over a call, reaching us from her maritime home in Kjipuktuk (Halifax).

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 ...

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.

PEN Canada is now accepting English-language submissions for the 2025 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. The annual award supports and celebrates emerging talent in Canadian literature. Unpublished ...

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 ...

Deepa Rajagopalan is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph, and is a graduate of the Creative Writing program from the University of Toronto. She is an editor of Held… ...

PEN Canada: Book challenges are on the rise around the globe, including Belarus, China, Hungary, Turkiye, and even in Canada. Perhaps for Canadians this is most noticeable south of our border. To what ...