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MWF in partnership with PEN : Writing Wrongs

September 14, 2022 IN WIP
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert (The Uncaged Sky), Louisa Lim ( Indelible City) and Michelle Aung Thin (Hasina: Through My Eyes) discuss fighting- and writing – for freedom from the frontlines of human rights crises, with Arnold Zable.

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People say that (writers) are pretty powerless: we don’t have an army, we don’t have a bureaucracy. But if that were true, then why would writers be arrested?... Because the spoken word is powerful.

— John Ralston Saul on the work of PEN International