This blogpost has been written by Elizabeth Reeder, the chair of the Women Writer’s Committee on the ever-present need for resistance, and how we can be inspired by the brave acts of suffragettes.

Sign our letter to call on Annabelle Ewing MSP to bring forward a bill to reform defamation law in Scotland.

As part of our 18-month Many Voices project, we partnered up with the charity Move On to run a series of writing workshops with their service users. Led by author Karen Campbell, the group embarked on a 5-week journey to explore different types of writing styles – and to determine the stories they wanted to share with the rest of the world.

“To be a hero you don’t have to be a genius like Einstein
You don’t need a halo or to be god’s sign
You don’t even have to go through life without committing a crime”

We are getting ready to welcome Ingun Christensen to Orkney as part of our Many Voices project in partnership with Orkney Library & Archive. Ingun is a Faroese author, and will be travelling to Kirkwall to visit a writing group led by author Alison Miller.

Scottish PEN president, Carl MacDougall shares his thoughts from PEN International’s Congress held in Lviv, Ukraine

Our statement on the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta

We are very happy to welcome Mexican writer and journalist Alicia Quiñones to Scotland as our Many Voices international writer.  Alicia joins Sarah Short for our event at Dundee Literary Festival on 22 October, focused on showcasing the work with Apex Scotland at HMP YOI Grampian.