Scottish PEN travelled to Pune in September for the 84th PEN International Congress. This is a report of the event written by Scottish PEN trustee, Jane Archer.

The Day of the Imprisoned Writer shouldn’t need to exist because writers should be free to express themselves free from the threats of censorship, imprisonment or violence. Nik Williams marks the day with a call to action to protect writers across the globe.

Scottish PEN welcomes the release of Liu Xia and calls on China to release all imprisoned writers and protect free expression.

Scottish PEN president, Carl MacDougall shares his thoughts from PEN International’s Congress held in Lviv, Ukraine

Talk delivered at 90th anniversary symposium at the University of Glasgow in March 2017, by Jenni Calder, former President of Scottish PEN.

Scottish PEN’s president recounts stories about freedom of expression that we heard at PEN International’s annual conference.

On the fourth anniversary of his imprisonment, we call on the UK government to do more to secure Raif Badawi’s release.

As an organisation charged with representing writers to ensure the fundamental freedoms to write, read and share thoughts, there are a number of aspects of the Investigatory Powers Bill that could threaten these freedoms were they to be made into law.

“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.

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 […]

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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 […]