PEN Canada is a nonpartisan charity that celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression and helps exiled writers to ...

Under total internet shutdown and informational darkness, we still do not know how the killing machine is operating, as it ...

The fund provides critical assistance to and creates opportunities for writers living in exile in Canada, including needs ...

In 1994, at a moment when freedom of expression in Iran was no longer merely constrained but actively lethal, 134 Iranian writers issued an unusually concentrated manifesto titled We Are Writers.

The people of Iran need to be seen, to be heard, and to connect with the world. And we, writers, cannot remain as mere observers.

Save-the-date for an evening of inspiration and storytelling from the PEN Writers in Exile. Readers to be announced.

Meanwhile, in official statements, Tehran’s Prosecutor General has described protesters as vandals and threatened they will face moharebe (waging war against God), a charge that is punishable by death ...