Anneli Andre-Barrett Fresh from a fulfilling lifelong career as initially a college and then a secondary school teacher of ...

Georgio Russell and Anna Sokolova have won the 2025 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. It is the first time the prize has been ...

Anna Sokolova and Georgio Russell have won the 2025 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. The jury also selected five finalists: ...

Written by Hoda Karimi Sadra. Hoda is dear friend of Joan Leishman and an exiled writer from Iran. Joan helped Hoda and her ...

PEN Canada is heartbroken by the sudden passing of Joan Leishman, journalist and long-time advocate for refugee writers. b.

PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression and aids writers in peril.

PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression and aids writers in peril.

PEN Canada: You are the fourth poet to win the RBC / PEN Canada New Voices prize. At a time when poetry struggles to find large print audiences – with a few notable exceptions – do awards like this ...