The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is an absolutely fantastic insight into the conservative supreme court justice’s jurisprudence and political philosophy. Expect an essay soon. #law #scotus #originalism #clarencethomas #supremecourt #conservative

📚️ Are you a young #writer or #artist? If so, we'd love to hear from you during our next #reading period! Regular submissions are ALWAYS free and we pay a small honorarium of 10 USD to contributors. More details to come soon 🔆

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

📢 Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay. For at least 26 Ukrainian journalists in Russian captivity, it's just another day of waiting. Some have been there since 2016. This month we're making sure the world knows their names. #WorldPressFreedomDay #WPFD2026 #FreeUkrainianJournalists

🌏 Across the Asia-Pacific region in 2025, protests over corruption, inequality and political decisions erupted in several countries. The PEN International’s 2026 Case List tells this story. See our full findings. ➡️ www.pen-international.org/news/writers... #writers #writing #freespeech

At 14, Chloe Cheung marched for Hong Kong's democracy. Now in exile, she writes a searing open letter to the city that made her. On political prisoners, banned books, and why she refuses to stop. Read Dear Hong Kong on PEN/Opp: penopp.org/articles/dea...

✒️ 🇦🇺 Latest essay on the rising xenophobia in Australia and Angus Taylor’s proposed proto-totalitarian immigration policy. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/angus-prot... #auspol #australia #LNP #Labor #Greens

For all my writer friends.

Voices Freed: International Solidarity in a Time of Global Disorder. Get your free 🎟️ to the online event! 📅 Thursday, 23 April 2026 🕐 10pm -11:30pm (AEST) 📍 Online via Zoom www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-fre...

#australia 🌏 An Australian court has ruled in favour of the Palestine Action Group and Blak Caucus, and against the New South Wales government and its anti-protest restrictions. PEN Sydney welcomes the court’s decision. #sydney #auspol #freespeech

🇦🇺 ✒️ Vomited out a small essay after watching Patricia Karvelas weirdly check @larissawaters.bsky.social on ABC's Afternoon Briefing. I think the Senator missed a terrific opportunity to call out the ABC. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/how-much-i... #auspol #israel #gaza #genocide #australia

✒️ Latest essay sketched up very quickly. One Nation's recent success in the South Australian state election does not spell disaster for Australia, nor does the attendant polling data. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/please-exp... #auspol #onenation #paulinehanson #SAelection #LNP

✒️ @peninternational.bsky.social and Feltrinelli Publishing have launched the PEN-Inge Feltrinelli Writing as Resistance Award. Open to writers and journalists worldwide. 👉 www.pen-international.org/news/pen-int... 📸: Premio Inge Feltrinelli #freespeech #writers #writing

✒️ #WorldPoetryDay: A poet should never be imprisoned for raising his voice. Cuban authorities must release #DuannisLeónTaboada immediately and ensure his safety and access to medical care. ✊ Stand with him today. #WPD26 #poets #poetry

✊ PEN Sydney is one of three PEN centres in Australia, and we need your support. 👉 Visit our website to sign up, follow us on social media, and tell your friends and family about our work, publications, and events. 🌏 pen.org.au/join-us/ #australia #sydney #freespeech #auspol

The neighbourhood watch. 🔭

🌏 21 February marked International Mother Language Day. Australia is a linguistically diverse country, with over 400 languages spoken. Over 20% of Australians use a language other than English at home. “Languages are living things that connect people to Country, culture, and ancestors.”—AIATSIS

✒️ My belated response to the conservative political action committee Great British PAC (GBPAC), who published a two-page letter maligning the campaign to repatriate the Parthenon Marbles to Athens. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/to-great-b... @bcrpm.bsky.social

✍️ Latest essay on the #ParthenonMarbles fully written! I dismantle the Great British PAC’s 2025 letter in defence of “the integrity of Our National Collections”. Now just to type up and do a final edit! @bcrpm.bsky.social

Well, very glad to see further incompetence from the British Museum. Terrible curators. Just bolsters the argument against their retention of the Parthenon Marbles. Put AI in the trash, put the Marbles in the Acropolis Museum. news.artnet.com/art-world/br... @bcrpm.bsky.social #parthenonmarbles

✍️ Essay on Fabian socialism! Not like my usual pieces, less critical and more descriptive. 👉 dominicwexler.substack.com/p/essays-in-... #socialism #politics #capitalism #writers #substack

📖 Although I’m for the free market (in a Keynesian / modern Fabian sense) this is a great book. I might review it in future. Highly recommend it to anybody interested in political economy. It is readable and honest with not a hint of screed. 👍 #writer #economics #politics #philosophy

Thank you to everybody who submitted! Once again another fantastic issue. ✊

#australia 🇦🇺 🚨 PEN Melbourne, PEN Sydney and PEN Perth express our deep concern regarding the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill that was passed by parliament this week. 📋 Read our joint letter: pen.org.au/hate-speech-... #auspol

#australia 🇦🇺 ✍️ The Adelaide Writers’ Week has been cancelled after roughly 100 writers decided to boycott the event over the disinvitation of Australian-Palestinian author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. PEN Sydney considers the disinvitation an infringement on freedom of speech in Australia.

✍️ Latest essay is out on the certainty of 21st century sceptics. ‘Scepticism’ has become indistinguishable from certainty. Not interested in truth and doubt, sceptics are ideologues. #covid #writing #joerogan #rogan #rfk dominicwexler.substack.com/p/the-certai...

📖 With intervention in Venezuela and rising ICE abuses, Gore Vidal’s Narratives of Empire has never been more relevant. #politics #america #trump #ICE #venezuela

🗞️ PEN Sydney’s November magazine is now available and free to read online!

 In this November edition, PEN Sydney shines a light on translation with poetry and essays, as well as the transcript of Shankari Chandran’s PEN Lecture from the Sydney Writers’ Festival. 👉 pen.org.au/wp-content/u...

Bonkers.

🎉 2025 was a busy year for PEN Sydney.

✒️ Not all books are political. As soon as you start playing that game you cede ground to MAGA censors like Moms for Liberty, TPUSA, and PragerU. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/are-all-bo... #writers #writing #politics #bookbans #books

Get to it!

📢 #DayoftheImprisonedWriter: Stand with #MziaAmaglobeli! She’s jailed for doing her job. ✍️ Speak out now — write send a message of solidarity to show her she is not alone and support her fight for justice! www.pen-international.org/mzia-amaglob...

News | Law change enabling restitution on moral grounds comes into force this month But national museums to be excluded from new rules that simplify ‘ex-gratia’ payments

Let’s gooooooooo!

#Australia #Thailand #Malaysia: We join PEN Centres in condemning Malaysia’s attempt to silence writer Murray Hunter through transnational criminal defamation, and urge Foreign Minister Penny Wong to intervene. Read our joint letter ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/austral...

Black Friday may give you 50% off, but Give Back Friday lets you give 100% hope. Skip the extra gadget and help protect writers. Donate to PEN International — because free expression shouldn’t be a luxury item 👉 www.justgiving.com/charity/pen-...

📢 #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

✍️ 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

✍️ 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

" Add your voice. Speak up. Let us rewrite the story of the future together." Join British actor and activist Khalid Abdalla in showing solidarity with imprisoned writers and standing up for freedom of expression: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...

✍️ SIGN OUR PETITION: www.pen-international.org/yalqun-rozi-... Uyghur writer #YalqunRozi has spent 9 years behind bars in China for expressing his cultural identity. Sentenced to 15 years, his only “crime” was helping preserve the Uyghur language. You can set him free. #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

✒️ For all of you writers out there, PEN International's Day of the Imprisoned Writer began Nov 15. Support writers in need. 🔗: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign... @peninternational.bsky.social #DayoftheImprisonedWriter #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli

Reputation Lost: The Duveen Cleaning Scandal. Against reunification, retentionists appeal to the British Museum's storied commitment to preserving the Parthenon Marbles. In reality, it's a fiction. Their record is disqualifying. @dominicwexler.bsky.social dominicwexler.substack.com/p/a-reputati...

✒️ Latest essay on the Parthenon Marbles is out! 🏛️ I discuss the Duveen Cleaning Scandal and why the argument that the British Museum is a competent preserver of Parthenon Marbles is a fiction. #reunitetheparthenonmarbles dominicwexler.substack.com/p/a-reputati...

📢 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