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A poet contemplates his release from prison
İlhan Sami Çomak was a wide-eyed university student from a Kurdish village when 29 years ago he was detained in Istanbul by Turkish authorities. He...
Some positive news from PEN International
In September, Burmese poet Maung Yu Py was released following his detention in March 2021. We continue to call for the immediate release of all...
LOVERS OF WRITING: VOLUNTEER AT SYDNEY WRITERS FESTIVAL
If you love the SWF and have time, why not volunteer for SWF? A long term partner of PEN Sydney - providing us with support to deliver one of our...
Joint statement calling for the release of unlawfully detained Iranian poets and writers
Ali AsadollahiThe death in police custody of the young Iranian-Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini, for wearing ‘inappropriate attire,’ instigated a...
Award winning Iranian poet unjustly jailed
PEN Sydney statement for Mahvash Sabet PEN Sydney strongly condemns the detention of Baha’i writer and poet Mahvash Sabet in Evin prison, Tehran who...
Violent Arrests of Leaders of Iranian Writers’ Association are Designed to Intimidate and Silence
Aida Amidi a member of the IWA board PEN Sydney and PEN America today condemned the recent arrests of three Iranian writers—Roozbeh Sohani, Aida...
Poetry and dinner fundraiser for PEN Afghanistan
Join us for a special fundraising dinner in support of PEN Afghanistan, which is currently operating in exile. The evening will be an intimate...
Release Şebnem Korur Fincancı
PEN Sydney and PEN International, express our extreme concern at the formal arrest in Turkey of prominent academic, forensic scientist, and leading...
Kylie Moore-Gilbert at The State Library of NSW
Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert discusses her memoir The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison which details her experiences detained in Iran as a...
A Message of Solidarity with the Women and People of Iran
Mahsa (Zhina) Amini was a 22- year-old Kurdish Iranian woman whose death in custody following her arrest by Iran’s “morality police” has sparked...
The vestigial stump of blasphemy laws in Australia
“Allah is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed Bhagwan” – Sami Shah, by way of Friedrich Nietzsche. It should be safe for me to write that....
Fears for the life of Iranian writer Arash Ganji
On Wednesday 31 August 2022 the Iranian Writers Association (IWA) announced in a statement that Arash Ganji was being transferred to Rajaei-Shahr...