by Blick | Jul 10, 2022 | News
Dear friends and comrades in Kurdish PEN, Please accept our warmest greetings from PEN Sydney. We would like to extend our congratulations for your conference and wish you success and great policies and plans for the years ahead. It is disturbing to hear that you are...
by Blick | Jul 8, 2022 | News
Sydney PEN joins with PEN International and the Philippine PEN Center in expressing its gravest concern over the recent conviction of journalists Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr. of cyber libel for a 2012 article. Questions of constitutionality aside, this action...
by Blick | Jun 28, 2022 | News
Photo credit: Kylie Melinda Smith Frank Moorhouse structured his 2005 semi-fictional memoir Martini around his favourite drink. He was fascinated by the rituals and rules for living well that the martini symbolised. In Martini, he satirises the ritualism of the drink...
by Blick | Jun 27, 2022 | News
Sydney PEN is saddened to hear of the death of acclaimed writer Frank Moorhouse, a long time supporter of PEN and, since 2005, a member of our Distinguished Writers’ group. As Angelo Loukakis, a member of the Australian Society of Authors and former committee member...
by Blick | Jun 18, 2022 | News
PEN Sydney condemns the decision by the UK Home Secretary to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the USA to face trial. We join his partner Stella Morris in calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to act now to stop the extradition and we ask him to urge...
by Blick | Jun 18, 2022 | News
Julian Assange has been in Bellmarsh prison now for more than three years and soon faces extradition to the USA and potentially worse prison conditions. If you would like to send him a letter please follow these instructions. Address your letter exactly as shown. You...
