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Jean Rafferty: Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh

Jean Rafferty describes the Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh event held in Glasgow’s Clutha Bar.

February 4, 2016
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Welcome to the Club: Bernardo Otaola

Journalist and writer Bernardo Otaola reflects on living and travelling in Europe.

September 25, 2015

“Are we still Charlie?” Film

“Are we still Charlie?” 20th Feb 2015 Summerhall TV filmed our event at Summerhall in February, originally posted here. You can see pictures from the event on our Events page, and read a collection of Tweets from the event here on our blog.

March 10, 2015
Newspaper clipping from The National, 8th Jan 2015

‘Liberty or death?’ Column from The National, 8/1/2015 (open for comments)

This column by Scottish PEN’s president Drew Campbell appeared in The National on the 8th of January 2015. Find a digital edition here: http://www.thenational.scot/ and find them on Twitter at @ScotNational Liberty or death? As I suspect many people were when they heard of the murders in Paris yesterday the news was so shocking, so horrifying I was almost at […]

January 12, 2015
Portrait of poet Roxana Vilk

Poets of Protest

Poets of Protest A number of films for Al Jazeera are made by the (now Edinburgh-based) young Iranian filmmaker, Roxana Vilk. On Wednesday 20 November, she will be presenting and discussing her work at a meeting of the Scottish Poetry Association, that will take place at the Scottish Poetry Library, Canongate, Edinburgh. Dr Mario Relich introduces her work and […]

November 17, 2013
Portrait of Mario Relich, Secretary, Scottish PEN

Still Transmitting: Why Nam June Paik Matters

Still Transmitting: Why Nam June Paik Matters Dr Mario Relich, poet, academic, Secretary of the Scottish Poetry Association, and member of the Executive Committee of Scottish PEN, reflects on Korean American artist Nam June Paik’s exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery. Considered by many to be the founder of video art, Paik died in 2006. I […]

October 12, 2013
Portrait of Mario Relich, Secretary, Scottish PEN

Book Festival Transwonderland

Book Festival Transwonderland by Mario Relich The fiftieth anniversary of the famous Writers’ Conference during the 1962 Edinburgh International Festival was celebrated with various events at this year’s Book Festival. I chose, however, to go only to a number of events which particularly interested me. Online podcasts of the 50th anniversary events are in any […]

September 13, 2012
Book cover by Janine Di Giovanni

Two War Correspondents Remember Bosnia

Two War Correspondents Remember Bosnia Discussion at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 17th August 2012 – Janine di Giovanni and Ed Vulliamy, – twenty years on from the beginning of the war in Bosnia. by Morelle Smith The War is Dead, Long Live the War; Bosnia, the Reckoning – Ed Vulliamy   Ghosts by Daylight; […]

August 24, 2012

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