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.
Ramshackle, a novel, published April 2012, Freight Books. Ramshackle was Shortlisted for the 2012 Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award and for the 2013 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Best First Book of the Year Award and was also long-listed for the 2013 Authors’ Club Best First Book Award.
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.