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International Women’s Day Readings

On Tuesday 7th March 2023 our Women Writers Committee hosted an online event to mark International Women’s Day. We are pleased to share a selection of readings from the event here.

March 22, 2023
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Louise Welsh appointed Honorary President of Scottish PEN

The Board of Scottish PEN is delighted to announce that Louise Welsh has agreed to represent Scottish  PEN in a new role as Honorary President.

March 21, 2023
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Remembering Leela Soma

The Board of Scottish PEN would like to share a tribute to colleague and friend, member and former Trustee, Leela Soma, who died earlier this year.

March 16, 2023
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PENning magazine available online now

The January ‘Making’ edition of PENning magazine is available to read for free online, via Issuu.

March 16, 2023
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International Women’s Day Event – Embracing Equity

This free event will take place via Zoom at 7.00pm on 7th March 2023 and will feature readings by women writers

February 15, 2023

Naomi Mitchison Lecture: with Louise Welsh

Things that are so.. ..things that are not so. Eventbrite link The Naomi Mitchison Memorial Lecture is hosted annually by Scottish PEN and the Edwin Morgan Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. This year’s lecture, Things that are so.. ..things that are not so – Fiction and lies in a fragmented world, […]

November 25, 2022

Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2022

November 2022: For Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2022, Scottish PEN devoted its work to updating our campaign list. We encourage our members and all readers and writers to educate themselves about the cases described below, and join PEN International and Scottish PEN and our colleagues in the PEN centres across the United Kingdom and […]

November 17, 2022

Statement Regarding Alaa Abd El-Fattah

In light of the most recent developments reported by the world’s press regarding the imprisonment of the British-Egyptian citizen Alaa Abd El-Fattah in Egypt, Scottish PEN renews its previous call made together with PEN International and the other PEN centres active in the United Kingdom that the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary and the UK […]

November 9, 2022

 

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