PEN Sydney

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18 October 2026 00:18

🎤Dr Anne Summers will deliver PEN Sydney's Day of the Imprisoned Writer address on 17th Nov at the State Library of NSW. She revists the politics of the Gillard era, the legacy of Malcolm Fraser and John Howard's upending of women’s equality. 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/anne-summere... #auspol #sydney

Tanya Pia Starrett

tanyapiastarrett.bsky.social

15 October 2026 23:02

Paraphrasing @dominicwexler.bsky.social 'It's British Retention that needs justification, NOT Greece's Restitution!'. Reunification. It's time.

PEN Sydney

pensydney.bsky.social

14 October 2026 05:48

❗️Vietnamese writer and democracy advocate Pham Doan Trang is currently serving a nine-year sentence following her conviction for “conducting propaganda against the State.” PEN Sydney joins PEN centres in calling for her unconditional and immediate release. 📸 Paul Mooney, Vaclav Havel Centre

PEN Sydney

pensydney.bsky.social

12 October 2026 06:35

✒️ Palestinian playwright Ali Abu Yasin is the recipient of @englishpen.bsky.social's 2026 Writer of Courage award. It is awarded by English PEN’s Writers at Risk Committee to a writer who has been persecuted for speaking out about his or her beliefs. 👉 www.englishpen.org/posts/campai... #palestine

PEN Sydney

pensydney.bsky.social

09 October 2026 11:08

‼️ In the 2025-26 school year, nearly 12,000 books were banned across the USA. This is almost double the number of books banned in the previous academic year. It is the highest number of recorded bans in a single year since PEN America began tracking book bans in 2021. 👉 pen.org/report/book-...