A resolution from PEN America condemned “the escalating assault on freedom of expression in the United States,” citing the ...

Dear Prime Minister, Ministers, and Honourable Leaders of the Opposition, We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are writing to call for the complete withdrawal of Bill C-2, An Act ...

A dramatic rise in book challenges and book bans targeting what are often called “diverse books” in children’s literature is sweeping North America. While the bans are mostly seen as local issues in ...

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 ...

Ira Wells has been elected as president of PEN Canada. Wells is a critic, essayist, professor of literature, and author of three books, the latest of which, On Book Banning (Biblioasis, 2025), ...

The journalist and legal scholar Amy Lai has been awarded the 2021 PEN Canada/Ken Filkow Prize for courageously reporting on the “threats faced by both individuals and democratic institutions” in her ...

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 ...

PEN Canada today commended the Government of Canada for removing more controversial parts of Bill C-63, particularly the heavy-handed hate speech penalties. The government heeded concerns expressed by ...

The Canadian photojournalist Amber Bracken has won PEN Canada’s 2022 Ken Filkow Prize for advancing freedom of expression in Canada. Bracken’s work combines an interest in photography, journalism and ...

Anna Sokolova and Georgio Russell have won the 2025 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. The jury also selected five finalists: Edie Reaney Chunn, Emily Gaudet, Gwen Aube, Helen Han Wei Luo, and Mona’a ...

You will not know this, but yours was the first book by a Black woman I was ever taught in a classroom. I think you already knew, when you wrote Nervous Conditions, how many Black girls were sitting ...

In its 40 years, PEN Canada has intervened in several landmark legal cases that upheld journalistic integrity and artistic freedom. It has defended queer bookstores against customs seizures; ...