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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Lizzie Eldridge

Vandalism

Life, love and death, those three cornerstones of the human condition that seem hell-bent on letting you down ‘How’s about a seven-week romance? you asked, and it never crossed my mind to refuse.’ Here, in Glasgow, Moira knows that love is about Andy. The living out of faults and shamefaced flaws together; coming home from […]

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