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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...

Join us for a special fundraising dinner in support of PEN Afghanistan, which is currently operating in exile. The evening will be an intimate...

PEN Sydney and PEN International, express our extreme concern at the formal arrest in Turkey of prominent academic, forensic scientist, and leading...

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...

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...

“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....

On Wednesday 31 August 2022 the Iranian Writers Association (IWA) announced in a statement that Arash Ganji was being transferred to Rajaei-Shahr...

Creative Commons licenced image – author CKThe assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie is an attack on freedom of expression.  In it there is a...

In this moving ceremony Frank's brother Arthur joined by many of his personal and professional friends paid tribute to his originality, creativity...

Dear friends and comrades in Kurdish PEN, Please accept our warmest greetings from PEN Sydney. We would like to extend our congratulations for your...

Sydney PEN joins with PEN International and the Philippine PEN Center in expressing its gravest concern over the recent conviction of journalists...

Photo credit: Kylie Melinda SmithFrank Moorhouse structured his 2005 semi-fictional memoir Martini around his favourite drink. He was fascinated by...