This free event will take place via Zoom at 7.00pm on 7th March 2023 and will feature readings by women writers

In honour of International Women’s Day 2018, here is a piece by Elizabeth Reeder, the chair of Scottish PEN’s Women Writers Committee about the need for a shared resistance against inequality, misogyny and violence.

The university, like the publishing industry, should widen the kinds of writers that they read to include those who are studying them.

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 […]

Women on the Edge – Interview with Linda Cracknell What is it about “being on the edge” geographically, socially, emotionally that drew you to the event? The characters I write about are often marginalised or voiceless in some way, or become outsiders by force or choice. The psychological edginess of certain places also really interests […]