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Come out #Toronto 📣 On the first the first weekend of June, join us for an afternoon of readings by journalists, writers and media workers from Myanmar, Iraq, and Syria. 📅 Sunday, June 1 at 2 p.m. 📍 Hirut Cafe, 2050 Danforth Ave., Toronto 🎟️ FREE, open to the public

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For more than a decade, the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award has recognized excellence in emerging, yet-to-be published Canadian writers. This spring, several alumni of the award are celebrating new books, recognition from their peers, or their growing careers: pencanada.ca/news/news-an...

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What is the Writers for Peace Committee? Last month, Kim Echlin — a Canadian writer and board member of PEN International — attended the annual meeting in #Slovenia, which has taken place for the last 41 years:

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Tell an unpublished writer you know 📣 This is your last chance to submit for the 2025 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award, which celebrates yet-to-be published writers. Learn how to submit here: buff.ly/z99mbB8

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Do you know an emerging writer? We have a prize for them. 🎉 Winner will receive $3,000 CAD cash prize and mentorship from a Canadian author ✅ There is NO FEE to enter ⏰ Deadline: Monday May 12, at 11:59 p.m EDT

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For more than a decade, the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award has recognized excellence in emerging, yet-to-be published Canadian writers. This spring, several alumni of the award are celebrating new books, recognition from their peers, or their growing careers: pencanada.ca/news/news-an...

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Nancy has work currently out in the April 2025 issue of Pinhole Poetry. The publication interviewed @nancyhuggett.bsky.social on what she's currently working on: pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview...

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You can catch Christine's #poetry all of this month as she tours across Ontario.

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With one week left to submit to the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award, we're taking a look back on the success of previous winners and finalists. 👇

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The return of Trump to the White House has seen not only an unprecedented assault on media freedoms, including lawsuits, personal denunciations of reporters, and stripping news organizations of their credentials. We are also witnessing politicians attack the very notion of fact-checking and truth.

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Today we honour Laila Soueif on her birthday, a tireless advocate for justice and the mother of imprisoned writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Now on hunger strike for his release, we stand in solidarity with her and renew our call for his immediate freedom. #FreeAlaa

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PEN International is gravely concerned about the worsening health of British-Egyptian writer and prominent activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah. He has been on hunger strike since March after hearing news of his mother’s hospitalization in London following her own hunger strike: buff.ly/sWZy0kf

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Our monthly newsletter publishes this week 💌 This edition includes: • triumphs from the PEN Writers in Exile • a report from Slovenia on the Writers for Peace Committee • youth initiatives to get involved in • a free event next week

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Join us next week for a panel featuring three American journalists — Susan Glasser, Katherine Jacobsen, Craig Silverman — on Trump's unprecedented assault on media freedoms:

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A message from the PEN Canada president, first published in our monthly newsletter, on the moment we're in and affirming our PEN values: buff.ly/YERoGEG

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"We didn’t come to this country to become journalists. We were already journalists." Arzu Yildiz graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University and has worked as a journalist, editor and senior reporter. She has written critical pieces of investigative journalism about unsolved murder cases...

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PEN America announces A Pledge to Our Democracy – a powerful call-to-action endorsed by more than 100 former college and university presidents and chancellors representing all sectors of higher education: pen.org/press-releas...

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We are one week away from the Made in Exile panel 🎥🌍 A part of the @hotdocs.bsky.social Festival, this free event highlights the invaluable contributions of displaced #filmmakers and #writers who, through their art, not only preserve their culture but also challenge and transform global narratives.

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