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.

Dangerous Women: Podcast Series

by Jenni Calder Scottish PEN’s annual International Women’s Day event, organised jointly with the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities, is always stimulating and enjoyable. This year’s, which took place on 6 March, was a feast of the unexpected, the challenging and the entertaining. Our six writers lead us into […]

Women on the Edge – International Women’s Day 2015 Over the course of this event, we conducted interviews with the participating writers, which you can listen to below. You can read further interviews with Cynthia Rogerson, Linda Cracknell and Elizabeth Reeder on our blog, as well as an introduction to the event, written by co-organiser […]

What is it about “being on the edge” geographically, socially, emotionally that drew you to the event? I enjoyed the attractiveness and danger in the idea of women on the edge. Being a woman is a risky business and it’s great to have a chance to talk about it and to listen to other women […]

Written by Jenni Calder, Scottish PEN, co-organiser of ‘Women on the Edge’ On 6 March six writers are getting together at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities to talk about ‘Women on the Edge’. The all-day event marks International Women’s Day (on 8 March) and has now become an annual […]