William Doo Auditorium, New College 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto Join author Zalika Reid-Benta, alumna of Victoria College ...

As culture wars continue to engulf universities, important questions about the limits of expressive freedom on campus have become hot topics. Are rights different for faculty, staff, students, and ...

Tala Motazedi, a queer screenwriter from Iran, has had a very busy year indeed as the PEN Writer-in-Residence at George Brown College. Her work at the College began in September. As part of her ...

Tala Motazedi, a queer screenwriter from Iran, has had a very busy year indeed as the PEN Writer-in-Residence at George Brown College. Her work at the College began in September. … ...

PEN International’s Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee is seeking submission for their annual Video-Poem Marathon in Indigenous and Minoritized Languages. The marathon will launch February 21 ...

In his new book, On Book Banning, Ira Wells begins with his astonishment when the principal in his children’s school wanted to get rid of “all the old books” as being too Eurocentric, too male, too ...

PEN would like to thank Patrick Crean for leading a writing workshop this past weekend with our Writers in Exile. Seventeen writers took part in the workshop, each an immigrant to Canada having fled ...

Bitter divisions over the war in Gaza have provoked a flood of allegations that Canadian and American media have abandoned editorial standards in their coverage. Key questions will address bias, ...

Lawrence Hill in conversation with Debra Thompson Wednesday February 5 at 7 p.m. EST Link to Zoom event: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 When prominent Canadian ...

When prominent Canadian novelist Lawrence Hill learned his award-winning The Book of Negroes had been banned from classrooms by the London District Catholic School Board because of its use of the ...

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