PEN Sydney
@pensydney.bsky.social
Sydney branch of PEN 🖋️
Defending freedom of expression on behalf of writers silenced by persecution or imprisonment.
🌏 https://linktr.ee/pensydneyau
Defending freedom of expression on behalf of writers silenced by persecution or imprisonment.
🌏 https://linktr.ee/pensydneyau
✉️ WRITE A MESSAGE OF HOPE: Today, show solidarity with Uyghur writer #YalqunRozi, imprisoned in Xinjiang since 2016 for his cultural and literary work. Write to him, every message helps writers know they’re not forgotten.
www.pen-international.org/yalqun-rozi-...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
www.pen-international.org/yalqun-rozi-...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
✉️ WRITE A MESSAGE OF HOPE: Today, show solidarity with Uyghur writer #YalqunRozi, imprisoned in Xinjiang since 2016 for his cultural and literary work. Write to him, every message helps writers know they’re not forgotten.
www.pen-international.org/yalqun-rozi-...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
www.pen-international.org/yalqun-rozi-...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
✒️ PEN Sydney would like to thank all those who attended Sunday’s illuminating conversation between Benjamin Law and Cheng Lei, marking 2025’s #DayoftheImprisonedWriter.
We would also like to thank Gleebooks for hosting and making the event possible.
We would also like to thank Gleebooks for hosting and making the event possible.
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
✒️ PEN Sydney would like to thank all those who attended Sunday’s illuminating conversation between Benjamin Law and Cheng Lei, marking 2025’s #DayoftheImprisonedWriter.
We would also like to thank Gleebooks for hosting and making the event possible.
We would also like to thank Gleebooks for hosting and making the event possible.
✍️ Algerian poet #MohamedTadjadit — the voice of the Hirak movement — is in prison just for speaking truth to power.
Join PEN International in demanding his immediate
and unconditional release.
📋 TAKE ACTION: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
Join PEN International in demanding his immediate
and unconditional release.
📋 TAKE ACTION: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
✍️ Algerian poet #MohamedTadjadit — the voice of the Hirak movement — is in prison just for speaking truth to power.
Join PEN International in demanding his immediate
and unconditional release.
📋 TAKE ACTION: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
Join PEN International in demanding his immediate
and unconditional release.
📋 TAKE ACTION: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
✍️ Journalist #MziaAmaglobeli is imprisoned in Georgia on politically motivated grounds.
We call for her immediate release, a fair trial, and full accountability for police
abuse.
📋 Take action with us. Click the link in our bio.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
We call for her immediate release, a fair trial, and full accountability for police
abuse.
📋 Take action with us. Click the link in our bio.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
✍️ Journalist #MziaAmaglobeli is imprisoned in Georgia on politically motivated grounds.
We call for her immediate release, a fair trial, and full accountability for police
abuse.
📋 Take action with us. Click the link in our bio.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
We call for her immediate release, a fair trial, and full accountability for police
abuse.
📋 Take action with us. Click the link in our bio.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
✍️ SIGN OUR PETITION: He told the truth. They silenced him.
Rory Branker has been disappeared and detained in Venezuela for doing his job as a journalist.
📋 Add your name to set him free — journalism is not a crime:
www.pen-international.org/rory-branker...
#RoryBranker #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
Rory Branker has been disappeared and detained in Venezuela for doing his job as a journalist.
📋 Add your name to set him free — journalism is not a crime:
www.pen-international.org/rory-branker...
#RoryBranker #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
✍️ SIGN OUR PETITION: He told the truth. They silenced him.
Rory Branker has been disappeared and detained in Venezuela for doing his job as a journalist.
📋 Add your name to set him free — journalism is not a crime:
www.pen-international.org/rory-branker...
#RoryBranker #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
Rory Branker has been disappeared and detained in Venezuela for doing his job as a journalist.
📋 Add your name to set him free — journalism is not a crime:
www.pen-international.org/rory-branker...
#RoryBranker #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
📢 #DayoftheImprisonedWriter is here!
From 15 Nov to 10 Dec, we’ll spotlight four writers jailed for their words and call for their release. Join us in defending freedom of expression everywhere.
#RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
From 15 Nov to 10 Dec, we’ll spotlight four writers jailed for their words and call for their release. Join us in defending freedom of expression everywhere.
#RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
📢 #DayoftheImprisonedWriter is here!
From 15 Nov to 10 Dec, we’ll spotlight four writers jailed for their words and call for their release. Join us in defending freedom of expression everywhere.
#RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
From 15 Nov to 10 Dec, we’ll spotlight four writers jailed for their words and call for their release. Join us in defending freedom of expression everywhere.
#RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
“Sometimes, when I am empty, when words don’t come, when I find I haven’t written a single sentence after scribbling whole pages, I collapse on my couch and lie there dazed...A quarter of an hour later, everything changes; my heart is pounding with joy.”
✒️ Gustave Flaubert
#writers
✒️ Gustave Flaubert
#writers
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
“Sometimes, when I am empty, when words don’t come, when I find I haven’t written a single sentence after scribbling whole pages, I collapse on my couch and lie there dazed...A quarter of an hour later, everything changes; my heart is pounding with joy.”
✒️ Gustave Flaubert
#writers
✒️ Gustave Flaubert
#writers
📢 November 15 marks the annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer.
🗓️ PEN Sydney is hosting an event to mark the day on November 23rd at Gleebooks.
🎟️ For tickets: gleebooks.com.au/product/chen...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#auspol #writers #sydney #australia
🗓️ PEN Sydney is hosting an event to mark the day on November 23rd at Gleebooks.
🎟️ For tickets: gleebooks.com.au/product/chen...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#auspol #writers #sydney #australia
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
📢 November 15 marks the annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer.
🗓️ PEN Sydney is hosting an event to mark the day on November 23rd at Gleebooks.
🎟️ For tickets: gleebooks.com.au/product/chen...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#auspol #writers #sydney #australia
🗓️ PEN Sydney is hosting an event to mark the day on November 23rd at Gleebooks.
🎟️ For tickets: gleebooks.com.au/product/chen...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#auspol #writers #sydney #australia
#Iran 🇮🇷 ✒️ Read Leila Sadeghi's personal story of detention in Iran on our website. Free.
🔗: pen.org.au/detention-of...
#freespeech #literature #writers
🔗: pen.org.au/detention-of...
#freespeech #literature #writers
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
#Iran 🇮🇷 ✒️ Read Leila Sadeghi's personal story of detention in Iran on our website. Free.
🔗: pen.org.au/detention-of...
#freespeech #literature #writers
🔗: pen.org.au/detention-of...
#freespeech #literature #writers
Bertolt Brecht was a German poet and playwright who made significant contributions to aesthetic and cinematic theory. From a young age, he was critical of war. 🖋️
#writer #writing #writerquotes #writerscommunity
📸: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-W0409-300 / Kolbe, Jörg / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
#writer #writing #writerquotes #writerscommunity
📸: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-W0409-300 / Kolbe, Jörg / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Bertolt Brecht was a German poet and playwright who made significant contributions to aesthetic and cinematic theory. From a young age, he was critical of war. 🖋️
#writer #writing #writerquotes #writerscommunity
📸: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-W0409-300 / Kolbe, Jörg / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
#writer #writing #writerquotes #writerscommunity
📸: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-W0409-300 / Kolbe, Jörg / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
October 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
October 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
‼️ Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges was scheduled to deliver a presentation for the National Press Club of Australia on October 20, only to have his invitation withdrawn.
🔗: chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-nation...
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Auspol #Australia
🔗: chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-nation...
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Auspol #Australia
October 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
‼️ Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges was scheduled to deliver a presentation for the National Press Club of Australia on October 20, only to have his invitation withdrawn.
🔗: chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-nation...
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Auspol #Australia
🔗: chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-nation...
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Auspol #Australia
📢 On Sunday the 23rd of November at 3pm, PEN Sydney in collaboration with @gleebooks.bsky.social will host an event marking the Day of the Imprisoned Writer.
🔗 BOOK TICKETS: gleebooks.com.au/.../cheng-le...
#sydney #australia #books #writers
🔗 BOOK TICKETS: gleebooks.com.au/.../cheng-le...
#sydney #australia #books #writers
October 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
📢 On Sunday the 23rd of November at 3pm, PEN Sydney in collaboration with @gleebooks.bsky.social will host an event marking the Day of the Imprisoned Writer.
🔗 BOOK TICKETS: gleebooks.com.au/.../cheng-le...
#sydney #australia #books #writers
🔗 BOOK TICKETS: gleebooks.com.au/.../cheng-le...
#sydney #australia #books #writers
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza 🌍 Mahmoud Darwish was a writer regarded as Palestine’s national poet.
Darwish was active in the Middle East peace process. While critical of Israeli and Palestinian leadership, he still believed peace was possible. He wrote Palestine's 1988 Declaration of Independence.
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Darwish was active in the Middle East peace process. While critical of Israeli and Palestinian leadership, he still believed peace was possible. He wrote Palestine's 1988 Declaration of Independence.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza 🌍 Mahmoud Darwish was a writer regarded as Palestine’s national poet.
Darwish was active in the Middle East peace process. While critical of Israeli and Palestinian leadership, he still believed peace was possible. He wrote Palestine's 1988 Declaration of Independence.
🕊️
Darwish was active in the Middle East peace process. While critical of Israeli and Palestinian leadership, he still believed peace was possible. He wrote Palestine's 1988 Declaration of Independence.
🕊️
#Australia 🇦🇺 📢 Join PEN Sydney and support the freedom to write and the freedom to read in Australia and around the world.
pen.org.au/join-us/
#australia #auspol #freespeech #freedomofspeech
pen.org.au/join-us/
#australia #auspol #freespeech #freedomofspeech
September 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
#Australia 🇦🇺 📢 Join PEN Sydney and support the freedom to write and the freedom to read in Australia and around the world.
pen.org.au/join-us/
#australia #auspol #freespeech #freedomofspeech
pen.org.au/join-us/
#australia #auspol #freespeech #freedomofspeech
Russell Banks was an American poet and writer. He was the recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for fiction in 1985 and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer prize in 1986 and 1999 for his novels Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter respectively.
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#writing #writers #writer #writingcommunity
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#writing #writers #writer #writingcommunity
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Russell Banks was an American poet and writer. He was the recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for fiction in 1985 and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer prize in 1986 and 1999 for his novels Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter respectively.
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#writing #writers #writer #writingcommunity
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#writing #writers #writer #writingcommunity
#Egypt ‼️Egyptian President al-Sisi has ordered authorities to study the possible pardon of Egyptian-British political prisoner, Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
Alaa is on the brink of release, now is not the time to let up. PEN Sydney joins calls for Egyptian authorities to “act now, not tomorrow”.
Alaa is on the brink of release, now is not the time to let up. PEN Sydney joins calls for Egyptian authorities to “act now, not tomorrow”.
September 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
#Egypt ‼️Egyptian President al-Sisi has ordered authorities to study the possible pardon of Egyptian-British political prisoner, Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
Alaa is on the brink of release, now is not the time to let up. PEN Sydney joins calls for Egyptian authorities to “act now, not tomorrow”.
Alaa is on the brink of release, now is not the time to let up. PEN Sydney joins calls for Egyptian authorities to “act now, not tomorrow”.
📢 The Hope Prize celebrates the power of storytelling to spark empathy and action. This international competition invites both emerging and established writers to share stories of resilience, courage, and hope.
Submit your short story by 31 October: www.thehopeprize.com
#thehopeprize #writers
Submit your short story by 31 October: www.thehopeprize.com
#thehopeprize #writers
September 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
📢 The Hope Prize celebrates the power of storytelling to spark empathy and action. This international competition invites both emerging and established writers to share stories of resilience, courage, and hope.
Submit your short story by 31 October: www.thehopeprize.com
#thehopeprize #writers
Submit your short story by 31 October: www.thehopeprize.com
#thehopeprize #writers
#Israel #Gaza ‼️PEN “believes that the necessary advance of the world towards a more highly organised political and economic order renders a free criticism of governments, administrations and institutions imperative”.
PEN Sydney strongly condemns the targeting of journalists.
PEN Sydney strongly condemns the targeting of journalists.
September 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
📢 🌏 #WORLD Writing Against Silencing: @penmelbourne.bsky.social Workshop is an online event that will explore tensions between creative expression and censorship in the Asia-Pacific region.
🎟️ Tickets Pay As You Wish.
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writin...
@youngwriterspen.bsky.social
🎟️ Tickets Pay As You Wish.
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writin...
@youngwriterspen.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
📢 🌏 #WORLD Writing Against Silencing: @penmelbourne.bsky.social Workshop is an online event that will explore tensions between creative expression and censorship in the Asia-Pacific region.
🎟️ Tickets Pay As You Wish.
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writin...
@youngwriterspen.bsky.social
🎟️ Tickets Pay As You Wish.
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writin...
@youngwriterspen.bsky.social
✒️ Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature and a Vice President of PEN International, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has written novels, essays, and screenplays.
#writing #writingcommunity #writers
#writing #writingcommunity #writers
August 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
✒️ Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature and a Vice President of PEN International, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has written novels, essays, and screenplays.
#writing #writingcommunity #writers
#writing #writingcommunity #writers
📍2025 marks @peninternational.bsky.social's 91st Congress. It will be held in Kraków from the 2nd to the 5th of September in partnership with Polish PEN. This year’s theme is “Freedom of Words--Words of the Free”.
#PENCongress2025
#PENCongress2025
August 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
📍2025 marks @peninternational.bsky.social's 91st Congress. It will be held in Kraków from the 2nd to the 5th of September in partnership with Polish PEN. This year’s theme is “Freedom of Words--Words of the Free”.
#PENCongress2025
#PENCongress2025
#Iran 🇮🇷 Iran is notorious for its brutal suppression of political dissent and free expression.
In her article, Leila Sadeghi details her harrowing treatment at the hands of the Revolutionary Guard Corps because of her feminist activism.
Read PEN Sydney's free magazines: pen.org.au/pen-magazines/
In her article, Leila Sadeghi details her harrowing treatment at the hands of the Revolutionary Guard Corps because of her feminist activism.
Read PEN Sydney's free magazines: pen.org.au/pen-magazines/
August 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
#Iran 🇮🇷 Iran is notorious for its brutal suppression of political dissent and free expression.
In her article, Leila Sadeghi details her harrowing treatment at the hands of the Revolutionary Guard Corps because of her feminist activism.
Read PEN Sydney's free magazines: pen.org.au/pen-magazines/
In her article, Leila Sadeghi details her harrowing treatment at the hands of the Revolutionary Guard Corps because of her feminist activism.
Read PEN Sydney's free magazines: pen.org.au/pen-magazines/
#Kurdistan 🕊️The 4th of August 2025 marks the 12th anniversary of Kurdish poet Sherko Bekas' passing, in exile in Sweden.
His extended work, Butterfly Freedom, was written in response to Saddam's genocide of Kurdish civilians and the world's silence. A sentiment relevant today.
His extended work, Butterfly Freedom, was written in response to Saddam's genocide of Kurdish civilians and the world's silence. A sentiment relevant today.
August 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
#Kurdistan 🕊️The 4th of August 2025 marks the 12th anniversary of Kurdish poet Sherko Bekas' passing, in exile in Sweden.
His extended work, Butterfly Freedom, was written in response to Saddam's genocide of Kurdish civilians and the world's silence. A sentiment relevant today.
His extended work, Butterfly Freedom, was written in response to Saddam's genocide of Kurdish civilians and the world's silence. A sentiment relevant today.