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 ...

Largely without public debate – and absent any new safeguards – we’ve become even more dependent on a technological ecosystem that is notoriously insecure, poorly regulated, highly invasive and prone… ...

Writers gather for sessions on the climate emergency and war. The 57th International Meeting of the Writers for Peace Committee this month hosted powerful witness and action in response to conflict ...

How do authors transform the raw material of a traumatic memory into a compelling fiction or nonfiction narrative? This was the task for 10 writers at a workshop last month. Each are members of the ...

PEN Canada is now accepting submissions for the 2023 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. The award seeks to encourage new writing and to provide a space where unpublished writers (age 17 and over) can ...

June 24, 2022 — Fareh Malik, a poet from Hamilton, Ontario has won the 2022 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices award. The jury described his collection, Streams that Lead Somewhere as an intense “portrait of… ...

Thursday, Mar 31 @ 9 PM – 10:10 PM EDT FREE LIVESTREAM EVENT REGISTER HERE We invite you to tune in at 9 pm EDT on Thursday, March 31, to eavesdrop on Colm Tóibín in conversation with the Rt.

Ahead of our Black History Month event, a complementary reading list, with authors from across the diaspora, telling stories of revolution, hidden history, and getting into good trouble.

Fareh Malik is a spoken word poet from Hamilton, Ontario and the winner of the 2022 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. His new book Streams that Lead Somewhere is available from Mawenzi Press.

Tell her about the colourful dance of kites, as if they were the earrings of the sky Tell her about the taste of Afghan food, which tastes like sweet adventures A medical doctor by profession, Dr.

Raif Badawi will receive the 2014 One Humanity Award at PEN Canada’s annual benefit on the opening night of the 35th International Festival of Authors on October 23.

PEN Canada’s Ken Filkow prize recognizes an individual or group that has advanced freedom of expression in Canada. It is named in memory of the distinguished Winnipeg lawyer Kenneth A. Filkow, Q.C.