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Image of tank in Gaza by Yairfridman2003 from WikiMedia Commons

Updated Nov 24: Scottish poets respond to Israel’s genocide in Gaza

A number of our members and other Scottish poets have written poems in response to the current conflict, and have kindly given permission for them to be shared here. Scottish PEN invites further poetic and literary responses to the poems.

January 10, 2024
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Upcoming events in August

Scottish PEN is supporting the Scottish Poetry Library in the presentation of two events in August.

July 9, 2025
Photograph from a large-scale protest against Israel's attacks on Gaza, which the PEN International logo in the top left corner

Proscribing Palestine Action as terrorist organisation threatens fundamental rights

30 June 2025 – English PEN, Scottish PEN, Wales PEN Cymru and PEN International are deeply concerned by the UK government’s proposal to proscribe the protest group Palestine Action under terrorism legislation. We urge the authorities to reconsider this step and to ensure full respect for the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful […]

July 2, 2025
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Statement on Quaker Meeting House raid and freedom of expression

Scottish PEN condemns the recent police raid on the Quaker Meeting House, central London, on Thursday 27th March 2025. This raid and the subsequent arrest of 6 young women is deplorable and constitutes a violation of human rights, freedom of expression, the right to protest and is, additionally, a violation of a place of worship.

April 15, 2025

 Women of Courage and Endurance

Join Scottish writers reading international writers struggling against oppression and sharing their own work at this free International Women’s Day event, 7th March 2025

February 19, 2025
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Surveillance of Writers in Scotland

On Saturday, 25 January, The Times published an article by senior news reporter Marc Horne, regarding the release of security service files that have recently been opened and placed in the UK National Archives at Kew. These documents disclosed that MI5 and the police monitored James Findlay (JF) Hendry, the poet, editor and writer for decades over […]

January 27, 2025
A survivor attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Death Wall during the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Photograph: Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters

Holocaust Memorial Day

Every year on 27 January the UK marks the horrific organised slaughter perpetrated in Europe in the 1930s and 40s and in many other parts of the world since then. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland. At a time when […]

January 27, 2025

UK Foreign Secretary must act: Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah now 

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s vital writing in his collected works, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated is like an explainer of why the principles of the PEN International Charter are so vital. Scottish PEN is proud to join PEN International, fellow PEN Chapters, Reporters Without Borders and other human rights organisations in urging the Foreign Secretary […]

January 24, 2025
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Publish and Perish: The arts in Glasgow today

Scottish PEN Trustee Dave Manderson writes on the threat to the arts in Glasgow

December 2, 2024

 

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