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senseless Death of an artist in iran

Jun 29, 2025

Artist and mother Mehrangiz Eminpour was killed in the Israeli attacks on Tehran on Monday June 2. PEN Sydney extends our condolences to her...

shielding citizens or silencing dissent in sri lanka

Jun 16, 2025

When Sri Lanka’s Parliament hurried the Online Safety Act (OSA) through committee and certified it on 1 February 2024, ministers hailed the statute...

Yang Hengjun’s letter from prison

May 31, 2025

A letter written in January this year by imprisoned Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been made public for the first time. Now in his sixth year of...

palestine and gaza banned in nsw schools

May 31, 2025

Students in NSW schools are watching a genocide in Gaza unfold on their phones, yet their teachers are banned from discussing the story with them....

Shankari Chandran’s pen lecture

May 24, 2025

We live in an era of unprecedented access to information, yet power and authority often present fiction as fact. As a writer and lawyer, Shankari...

We are now on bluesky

Mar 1, 2025

Twitter is toxic, Threads is irrelevant - the world is moving to Bluesky and we’re joining them. Follow us @pensydneyPEN Sydney has decided to join...

creative australia cancels venice artist

Mar 1, 2025

Creative Australia's withdrawal of its selection of the artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino for the Venice Biennale is...

lattouf case exposes abc’s lack of integrity

Feb 28, 2025

The ABC’s actions in the Antoinett Lattouf constitute censorship and are contravene its obligations towards its employees and public.Journalist...

send a message of hope to amanda echanis

Nov 14, 2024

Writer and activist Amanda Echanis was arrested alongside her newborn son on 2 December 2020. Nearly four years later, Echanis remains in detention,...

pen sydney moves from ‘X’ to threads

Oct 18, 2024

We can no longer support the hate and disinformation that has flooded X since Elon Musk took over.In coordination with PEN Melbourne and PEN Perth,...