Scottish PEN is a centre of PEN International and not-for-profit organisation that champions freedom of expression and literature across borders.
We are a membership organisation and work with a range of writers, campaigners, activists and communities across Scotland and around the world.
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All members of Scottish PEN subscribe to the PEN Charter.
DS Louisa Townsend from Edinburgh is an engaging new detective who is as impetuous as she is ambitious, with an innate sense of justice at her core. She is temporarily working on the island of Tarawa, a remote coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific, where nothing ever happens.Then a mutilated body is found.
PENning, the Writers in Exile Committee’s biannual online journal, presents work by Scottish PEN’s member-writers alongside writing from people living in Scotland who are from other parts of the world.
