It is our pleasure to introduce Kerrie O’Brien, our international guest writer for Many Voices writing group with Move On.

We recorded our first Many Voices podcast today, featuring Sarah Short and Eric Ngalle Charles in conversation with Sasha de Buyl-Pisco

Project Manager Christina Neuwirth is leaving us at the end of this month. Carl MacDougall bids her farewell on behalf of the organisation.

We are delighted to introduce Eric Ngalle Charles, our international writer for our Many Voices writing group with Fife College at HMP and YOI Polmont.

Censored writer Lydia Cacho is visiting the UK to promote a collection of Mexican journalism.

Ghazi Hussein took part in Scottish PEN’s event at this year’s Big Lit Festival in Gatehouse of Fleet, a joint Writers in Exile/Writers at Risk event chaired by Liz Niven. After performing several of his poems, Ghazi talked to Jean Rafferty about his years of suffering, not just in Syria but also in Scotland, where racist attacks made his flat in Sighthill more a prison than a home.

We are looking for a Project Coordinator to work on Scottish PEN’s 90th anniversary travelling exhibition, which highlights the history of Scottish writers promoting freedom of expression and international understanding.

We are delighted to get to share with you the PENning anthology I’M COMING WITH YOU, edited by the Writers in Exile committee, with a foreword by Jackie Kay.