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PENning magazine available online now

The January ‘Making’ edition of PENning magazine is available to read for free online, via Issuu.

March 16, 2023
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PENning magazine event

Join the Scottish PEN Writers in Exile Committee and a variety of published writers as we hear readings from PENning magazine.

July 13, 2021

Big Lit Festival: Ghazi Hussein

Ghazi Hussein took part in Scottish PEN’s event at this year’s Big Lit Festival in Gatehouse of Fleet, a joint Writers in Exile/Writers at Risk event chaired by Liz Niven. After performing several of his poems, Ghazi talked to Jean Rafferty about his years of suffering, not just in Syria but also in Scotland, where racist attacks made his flat in Sighthill more a prison than a home.

May 5, 2017

The PENning anthology is here!

We are delighted to get to share with you the PENning anthology I’M COMING WITH YOU, edited by the Writers in Exile committee, with a foreword by Jackie Kay.

April 14, 2017
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Blog post from Linda Cracknell about PENning magazine from 22 Sept 2013.

September 22, 2013

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