In an age marked by escalating conflict and war, human knowledge itself is increasingly endangered. Too often, the world ...

PEN Canada, Victoria University, and the Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) are pleased to invite applications for our Exiled Writer-in-Residence position for the 2026-2027 academic year (September ...

This piece was originally published in the 2025/2026 PEN Canada Annual Report. José Teodoro’s prose has appeared in publications such as Brick, Geist, and The Literary Review of Canada. He is the ...

Jiang Weiping spent six years in prison for using his journalism to expose corruption among the Chinese ruling elite. He did not see his family for almost a decade, and lost everything, including any ...

This letter was originally published in the 2025/2026 PEN Canada Annual Report. As a teenager in the 1990s, I used to carry around a battered copy of Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers, a novel I didn’t ...

This letter was originally published in the 2025/2026 PEN Canada Annual Report. This spring, I found myself among a small group of artists, activists, and writers from Berlin, Philadelphia, Barcelona, ...

Rui Umezawa is the author of such books as The Truth About Death and Dying and Strange Light Afar: Tales of the Supernatural from Old Japan. This piece was originally published in the 2025/2026 PEN ...