• ABOUT
    • Mission
    • Contact
    • Friends of Scottish PEN
    • History of Scottish PEN
    • The PEN Charter
  • JOIN US
  • DAY OF THE IMPRISONED WRITER
  • CAMPAIGN
    • Surveillance
    • Scottish Chilling
    • Defamation Reform
    • Declarations
    • Many Voices
    • 90th Anniversary Touring Exhibition
  • COMMITTEES
    • Writers at Risk
    • Writers in Exile
    • Women Writers
    • Writers for Peace
  • EVENTS
  • WRITE
    • PENning Magazine
    • Lesser Wearie Writing Retreat
  • BLOG
  • PRESS
Scottish PEN
  • Join Us
  • Donate
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • History of Scottish PEN
    • The PEN Charter
    • The way we work
    • Contact
  • COMMITTEES
    • Writers at Risk
    • Writers in Exile
    • Writers for Peace
    • Women Writers
  • Day of the Imprisoned Writer
  • PROJECTS
    • Surveillance Campaign
    • Declarations
    • Scottish Chilling
    • Defamation Reform
    • Many Voices
    • 90th Anniversary Touring Exhibition
  • EVENTS
  • BLOG
  • WRITE
    • PENning Magazine
    • Lesser Wearie Writing Retreat
  • SHOP
  • 0

Daphne’s Legacy

On the one year anniversary of the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia we remember her bravery and legacy and look to the future to what we can do to protect journalists in Scotland, Europe and across the globe.

October 16, 2018

Scottish PEN statement on the killing of Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnírová

Here is our statement on the killing of Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnírová in Slovakia

March 16, 2018

Scottish PEN Statement on the Killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia

Our statement on the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta

October 18, 2017

#DefamationScot: Making Noise, Calling for Reform

MSPs, writers, and journalists demand defamation reform to bring law in line with modern technology in event at Scottish Parliament.

June 30, 2017

Lydia Cacho and Anabel Hernández – two of Mexico’s bravest journalists are in the UK to talk about the risks of speaking truth to power

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

May 19, 2017

Wigtown Book Festival: Big Brother’s Bookcase

Wigtown Book Festival celebrates the power of the written word but Scottish PEN is deeply concerned about how unwarranted and suspicionless surveillance can undermine the ability of novelists, poets and playwrights to express themselves free from coercion or duress.

September 9, 2016
Bernardo Otaola

Bernardo Otaola: 2, 5, 12, 20

Bernardo Otaola reflects on the evolving challenges to freedom of expression in Mexico.

November 16, 2015
Day of the Dead

Jean Rafferty & Bernardo Otaola: Day of the Dead

Mexican Journalism student Bernardo Otaola Valdes delivered a testimony about writing in his home country at our Day of the Dead event.

November 9, 2015
Translator and writer Fiona Rintoul

Fiona Rintoul on Translation

Translated writing doesn’t just help us to understand other people and other cultures; it helps us to understand ourselves.

September 25, 2015
Zineb El Rhazoui in Amsterdam, 2015, photo taken by Jean Rafferty

Zineb El Rhazoui in conversation with Jean Rafferty

‘At Charlie Hebdo we knew we were targeted. All my colleagues knew they were risking their lives. Before the massacre I never took events seriously, but after what happened to my colleagues I do. I must be careful – all those who defend freedom of speech have to be careful now.’

September 14, 2015
James Kelman reading from The Book of Whispers, April 2015

James Kelman: Extract from “And The Judges Said… and other essays”

This is an edited extract from two essays by James Kelman relating to Turkey and Kurdistan, contained in his collection, And the Judges Said… and other essays [Polygon Books 2008] and is being reprinted here with the writer’s permission. The first “Freedom for Freedom of Expression Rally”, organised by a 200-strong group of artists and activists took place in Istanbul […]

April 27, 2015
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

What can you do?

  • Join Us
  • Donate

ABOUT

Scottish PEN is the Scottish branch of PEN International campaigning for freedom of expression, oppressed writers, and marginalised linguistic groups.


Scottish PEN is a registered Scottish Charity with the charity number SC008772. Scottish PEN is a SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation).

CONTACT

Writer’s Museum,
Lady Stairs House,
Edinburgh,
EH1 2PA

info@scottishpen.org
0131 226 5590

USEFUL LINKS

  • ABOUT
  • CAMPAIGNS
  • PRESS
  • BLOG
  • PRIVACY POLICY
Theme: Scottish PEN by Becca Inglis © 2019