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.

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Andrew Scott

In a Dead Man’s Jacket

Charges headlong through a battered world of chancers, small-time drug-dealers, neighbourhood hoods and Hooray Henrys in 1983 Thatcher’s Britain. A wryly accurate and hilarious account of a young Scotsman on the make, determined to survive the Thatcher years.

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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.

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