by Blick | Sep 17, 2022 | News
On Wednesday 31 August 2022 the Iranian Writers Association (IWA) announced in a statement that Arash Ganji was being transferred to Rajaei-Shahr Prison under a fabricated accusation. Arash Ganji is a writer and member of IWA, which advocates for freedom of expression...
by Blick | Aug 20, 2022 | News
Creative Commons licenced image – author CK The assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie is an attack on freedom of expression. In it there is a warning and a lesson! PEN Centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth strongly and unreservedly condemn the attempt to kill...
by Blick | Jul 14, 2022 | News
In this moving ceremony Frank’s brother Arthur joined by many of his personal and professional friends paid tribute to his originality, creativity and deep commitment to social justice, including authors’ rights, and to his deep sense of fun. Frank was a...
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...
