PEN Canada is a nonpartisan organization of writers and readers, that works with others to defend freedom of expression as a basic human right, at home and abroad. PEN Canada promotes literature, fights censorship, helps free persecuted writers from prison, and assists exiled writers who live in Canada. PEN Canada envisions a world where writers are free to write, readers are free to read, and freedom of expression prevails. 

We are the Canadian English-language center of PEN International. Our membership includes authors, journalists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, journalists, scholars, advocates, publishers, translators, and editors.

PEN Canada acknowledges that we share the lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat. We recognize the enduring presence of all First Nations, Métis, and the Inuit people, and are grateful to have the opportunity to meet and work on this territory in a journey towards truth and reconciliation.

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