PEN International

She is a member of PEN International , and has consistently spoken out against political oppression and punishment of writers opposing their national governments.

LC was president of International PEN , having already served first on the executive committee and then as chair of English PEN .

JC belonged to the English Centre of International PEN , the worldwide association of writers.

PB 's varied prose output includes editing work: the PEN poetry collections of 1962 (with Ted Hughes and Vernon Scannell ) and 1975, and New Poetry 2, 1976 (with Kevin Crossley-Holland ). She began...

British Book News was as grudging about the 1975 PEN poetry anthology as it was the same year (1976) about Driving West. It reported that this series plods on with safe, unexciting choices, though...

NB sat on various literary committees: PEN International , the Society of Authors , and the Royal Society of Literature . She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists , following in...

PB is a member of the Society of Authors and of PEN .

Later, in 1982-3, MA was President of the Writers' Union of Canada . She was President of the Canadian branch of PEN International in 1984-6. She became a Vice-President of Pen International on 11 July...

MA has taken an increasingly prominent role in shaping opinion on urgent questions confronting Canadians and others living with the new global economy. In articles, lectures, and interviews she has examined environmental issues, nationalism, governance...

It was also issued in a limited, boxed edition (150 copies) with Atwood's own artwork, for the benefit of PEN International .

This book was published as a fundraiser for the PEN International Writers in Prison Program and the Writers' Development Trust .