PEN Melbourne acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation and recognises that sovereignty of this land was never ceded.

Urgent Call for Action

Update:Egypt: Poet Galal El-Behairy is at risk after 80 days on hunger strike

June 1, 2023

Myanmar Update: PEN member now serving 54-year prison sentence.

May 30, 2023
British Labour MP John McDonnell calls for Assange Inquiry

Judge orders the Crown Prosecution Service to come clean about the destruction of key documents on Julian Assange

June 2, 2023

Stella Assange at the Press Club and Hyde Park Rally

May 26, 2023

IRAN: End the persecution of Mahvash Sabet

May 20, 2023

PEN International joins PEN Centres worldwide in call for release of Chinese writer and journalist Dong Yuyu

May 30, 2023
Jazz Money - yirawulin (Wiradjuri)

PEN International Video Poem Marathon 2023 in Indigenous and Minoritized Languages

May 3, 2023

IMPUNITY REIGNS – WRITERS RESIST: PEN INTERNATIONAL CASE LIST 2022

March 21, 2023

Afghanistan: Arrest of girls’ education activist latest example of Taliban repression

April 6, 2023

PEN Melbourne Writers for Peace Committee: Can Arts Stop a Bullet?

April 27, 2023

PEN America’s Literary Gala May 18 to Honor Iranian Writer and Human Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi with PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award

May 18, 2023

The Persecution of Truth: Sun 1 – 5pm, livefeed will be added

April 26, 2023
Anything To Say?

Anything To Say? sculptures for freedom of expression, truth and a free press in Melbourne 7 & 8 March.

March 11, 2023

World Press Freedom Day: Publishing Is Not A Crime

May 2, 2023
Türkiye: Wave of book bans

Türkiye: Over 100 journalists, lawyers and politicians were reportedly detained this morning across Türkiye and Wave of book bans and restrictions condemned 

April 26, 2023

A report on the UN Commission on the Status of Women

March 13, 2023

Film by Oscar nominee David Bradbury, The Road To War, at NOVA one screening only.

March 20, 2023
The Art of Resistance: Behrouz Boochani in Conversation

Listen to the Feb 13 recording of Behrouz Boochani’s last public appearance in Melbourne in conversation with Arnold Zable

March 11, 2023
More than 35 PEN Centers Worldwide Call On Iranian Authorities to End Campaign Against the IWA

PEN Network Welcomes Release of Iranian Writers Arash Ganji and Reza Khandan Mahabadi, Calls for Release of Other Members of the Iranian Writers’ Association

February 28, 2023

NICARAGUA: Authorities arbitrarily strip nationality and properties of PEN members, writers, journalists and critics forced into exile

February 21, 2023

PEN Melbourne members support for The Voice

February 21, 2023
Why Join PEN?

Why Join PEN? (Articles) Jan 2023: The Bottom Drawer by Paul Morgan

March 29, 2023
Aida Amidi: I have to appear in court on February 19, 2023.

During the interrogations, I learned that I was arrested because of being a member of the board of directors of the Iranian Writers Association (IWA) and the association’s statements in support of the protesters, especially women and the Kurdish people.

January 18, 2023
Nedim Türfent: FREED!

Editor, poet, and honorary PEN member Nedim Türfent released from prison

November 30, 2022

The tide is turning for Assange: PEN Update

January 8, 2023

The Belmarsh Tribunal: Video link

December 20, 2022

Philippines: PEN International and PEN Philippines call for urgent enquiry into killing of poet Ericson Acosta

December 3, 2022

Suzan Saka for the Turkish program Pirha News interviews PEN Melbourne committee member Mammad Aidani

November 17, 2022

Albanese Hansard, PEN M response &Jennifer Robinson at Press Club: TRANSCRIPT

November 30, 2022

PEN International and PEN Norway: urgent statement on arrest in Turkey of human rights defender Şebnem Korur Fincancı.

October 31, 2022
Vietnam: Release Pham Doan Trang

Vietnam: Release author, journalist and activist, Pham Doan Trang

October 19, 2022

RESOLUTION ON THE PROSECUTION OF JULIAN ASSANGE AND CERTIFICATION OF HIS EXTRADITION AS THREATS TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & Oct 8 SOS photos

October 9, 2022

Wai Moe Naing on trial

October 3, 2022

Sami Shah on Blasphemy on International Blasphemy day.

September 30, 2022

International Hrant Dink Award Ceremony 2022

September 26, 2022

UN PEACE DAY RALLY: protecting peacemakers like Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange.

September 21, 2022

Fears for the life of Iranian writer Arash Ganji

September 20, 2022

PEN Melbourne joins voices around the world who defend freedom of expression in condemning the attack on author Salman Rushdie.

August 20, 2022

MWF in partnership with PEN : Writing Wrongs

September 14, 2022
Converge on Canberra for Assange

Converge On Canberra Rally Speeches

August 2, 2022
No More Hiroshimas Rally

No More Hiroshimas Rally, 12.30pm Saturday August 6, 2022 at the State Library

July 26, 2022
Australia, drop the prosecutions

COLLAERY CHARGES DROPPED, SIMILAR ACTION FOR MCBRIDE, BOYLE AND ASSANGE NEEDED

July 12, 2022
ACTION: Uluru Statement from the Heart

ACTION: Support for a Voice to Parliament to be Enshrined in the Constitution

July 12, 2022
Turkey: Meral Şimşek verdict expected

Turkey Update: verdict expected in trial of Kurdish PEN member and writer Meral Şimşek

September 21, 2022

International PEN Melbourne Centre CHINA ACTION – YANG Hengjun

January 24, 2022
Wheeler Centre: Celebrating 100 years of PEN

Together in Literature: 100 Years of PEN International

October 14, 2021
The Hate Speech Toolkit

The Hate Speech Toolkit

June 20, 2021
Analogue Iran by Ali MC; 300 words for truth by Mammad Aidani

PEN Connections

August 18, 2021