Our Writing, Our Resistance – PEN International WWC annual meeting online

WWC Annual Meeting Online
Our Writing, Our Resistance
7 and 8 March 2022 (13:00 – 16:00 Greenwich Mean Time)

The first PEN International WWC meeting for 2022 is due to be hosted in a couple of weeks. The meeting will be spread over two days, and over that time the regular business of the WWC will be covered, with centre updates. There will be reporting on the VIDA Count results to come in. A presentation of the Hate Speech Tool Kit and panels on Online Trolling, along with a presentation on The Sexist of the Year award, will be covered too. And the meeting will close with a traditional poetry reading session themed Our Voices: Our Resistance.

For those interested parties, please register for this meeting and literary reading separately– it will be running through different Zoom accounts. Please complete your registration as soon as possible – and before 1st of March.

Register HERE for the meeting (before 1st of March)

Register for the literary event HERE

Practical information

The sessions will be held online as a closed, by invitation-only meeting. Further details and technical information will be communicated to confirmed participants closer to the meeting.

The sessions will be recorded by the Secretariat for reporting purposes only and will not be broadcast or published later. The public portion (public events and literary reading) will be streamed on YouTube and Facebook and recordings can be used for promotional purposes.

The consultation is organised under the Chatham House Rule, and participants are not allowed to record.

The sessions will be held in English only. Unfortunately, no interpretation can be provided. We apologise for this inconvenience.