by PenSydney | Jan 13, 2026 | News
The cancellation of Adelaide Writers’ Week after the removal of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and the withdrawal of the majority of writers calls for a detailed explanation. It is a clear infringement of freedom of expression. The three Australian PEN Centres; Perth,...
by PenSydney | Jan 12, 2026 | News
77 writers have withdrawn from the Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) after the Adelaide Festival Board decided to drop Australian-Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah for community cohesion. In a statement, the Adelaide Festival Board explained “[it] would not be...
by PenSydney | Oct 30, 2025 | News
Leila Sadeghi had no idea of the danger that awaited her when she returned to Iran for her father’s funeral. As a translator of feminist articles the regime had put a target on her back. She was now trapped in Iran. I stood at the Tehran airport immigration desk in my...
by PenSydney | Jun 29, 2025 | News
Artist and mother Mehrangiz Eminpour was killed in the Israeli attacks on Tehran on Monday June 2. PEN Sydney extends our condolences to her ex-husband and father of their children writer Reza Khandan Mahabadi. Reza Khandan Mahabadi, a writer and member of the...
by PenSydney | Jun 16, 2025 | News
When Sri Lanka’s Parliament hurried the Online Safety Act (OSA) through committee and certified it on 1 February 2024, ministers hailed the statute as a firewall against cyber-fraud, child exploitation, and “false statements.” Yet to many journalists, lawyers and...
