AustLit
Issues
- y Sydney Pen Magazine November 2023 27290768 2023 periodical issue
- y Sydney Pen Magazine May 2023 27290034 2023 periodical issue
- y Sydney Pen Magazine November 2022 27289604 2022 periodical issue
- y Sydney PEN Magazine May 2022 24661190 2022 periodical issue
- y Sydney PEN Magazine February 2021 21950646 2021 periodical issue 'The last time I wrote a presidential report for a PEN Sydney magazine was almost one year ago, before COVID-19 had spread all over the world. Since then, the virus has plunged many parts of the world into turmoil and caused millions of deaths globally. In Australia, we have been fortunate that state-led responses to the pandemic have controlled the spread of the virus and largely kept our communities safe.' (President's Report - February 2021, Introduction)
- y Sydney PEN Magazine November 2019 18463613 2019 periodical issue 'It has been a busy six months for Sydney PEN and sadly much of our work has concerned the actions of our government authorities against Australian citizens. The June raids by the Australian Federal Police on journalists and media organisations represented a disturbing attempt to intimidate legitimate news journalism working in the public interest. Sydney PEN joined Australia’s major media bodies, such as the MEAA, in denouncing the raids and demanding a change in law to introduce positive protections for journalists and whistleblowers from the threat of warrants, searches, arrests and imprisonment for reporting the truth.' (Mark Isaacs President’s address, introduction)
- y Sydney PEN Magazine May 2019 16864792 2019 periodical issue
- y Sydney PEN Magazine November 2018 15264353 2018 periodical issue
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Sydney PEN Magazine
May
2018
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periodical issue
'Since the 83rd PEN Congress in Lviv last October, the author and human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, who was its key-note speaker, has visited Sydney off the back of his phenomenal tracing of the main terms of international law – back to the Nuremberg trials which followed WW11 atrocities. It becomes necessary to ask: what is the state of international behaviour at the present moment that concerns PEN?' (Zoe Rodriguez, President's Report, introduction)
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November
2017
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periodical issue
'The 2017 PEN International Congress in Lviv opened soberly with the honouring of long-time PEN case list member Liu Xiaobo. Afterwards came acknowledgement of PEN campaigners from across the world who had died in the previous year – Rosie Scott was, of course, among the writers honoured and remembered. Twenty months after the horrific murder of 12 staff members at the offices of satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the Congress grappled with the tension contained in PEN’s charter between our core commitment to freedom of expression and our commitment as PEN members to dispel hatred. A legalistic paper generated out of the PEN International Peace Committee failed to secure immediate support, and a consultative group from across PEN’s membership has been formed to draft a paper for consideration at the 2018 Congress.' (President's Report introduction)
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Special Feature : Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Remembering Rosie Scott
June
2017
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periodical issue
President’s Letter
As this magazine goes to print we have received the saddest news – our beloved Rosie Scott died on 4 May. She was such a champion for the marginalised and supportive of colleagues old and young. A Sydney PEN life-member, Rosie leaves a significant legacy for us to build on. She was a PEN person through and through, and an example of what compassion, intelligence and a willingness to work hard can achieve. Her anthologies of and about asylum seekers made sure this topic was discussed.
Sadly, this is also a time to pay tribute to two other fine women writers who were great friends with Rosie, the mother and daughter Anne Deveson and Georgia Blain who died within days of each other. I knew Anne from over two decades ago when we had a lively discussion over dinner about a documentary she wanted to make about the Middle East. She wanted to interview women politicians from Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, etc. and had told me she was going to call it ‘the politics of peace’. I couldn’t wait to see it screened. Sadly September 11 occurred and she told me it was no longer a possibility. She continued to write about this topic and many others. These were all women committed to telling important stories and asking questions about society, and the place of women and other marginalised groups in contemporary life.'
- y Sydney PEN Magazine May 2016 10225798 2016 periodical issue
- y Sydney PEN Magazine November 2015 9150152 2015 periodical issue
- y Sydney PEN Magazine May 2015 8642176 2015 periodical issue
- y Sydney PEN Magazine May 2014 7994015 2014 periodical issue
- y Sydney PEN Magazine November 2013 6848667 2013 periodical issue
- y Sydney Pen Magazine November 2012 Z1937436 2012 periodical issue
- y Sydney Pen Magazine May 2012 Z1861991 2012 periodical issue
- y Sydney Pen Magazine November 2011 Z1827639 2011 periodical issue
- y Sydney Pen Magazine May 2011 Z1789823 2011 periodical issue