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      • OPPORTUNITY for Creative Non-fiction writers (Lviv, Ukraine) i.m Victoria Amelina
      • Writer and broadcaster Manchán Magan dies aged 55
      • Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale banned in Edmonton Schools (Canada)
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      • In Memory of Lyra McKee
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      • Open Call: Common Currency Writer in Residence
      • Edna O’Brien’s TSL Eliot Lecture (Abbey Theatre) 15/12/2020
      • “Under Fire: Journalists in South America”
      • Eavan Boland 1944-2020
      • FREE THE WORD
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

November 2020 Newsletter

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Newsletter, November 2020

 

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