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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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International Women’s Day Event

Join the Scottish PEN Women Writers Committee as we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8th March 2022.

February 15, 2022
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Event: Freedom for Varavara Rao

Join Scottish PEN, Irish PEN//PEN na hÉireann and guests as we share poetry readings and updates on the case of renowned Indian poet, Varavara Rao.

September 7, 2021

Photos: “Finding language for our gender”

February 23, 2018
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“Finding language for our gender”

February 23, 2018

A poem from Liu Xiaobo to Liu Xia in 1997

A poem written by the late Liu Xiaobo, a poet, critic and Nobel Prize laureate who campaigned for democratic reform in China, to his wife Liu Xia, also a poet, whose situation in China continues to be precarious.

September 8, 2017

Eli Clare to visit our LGBT Youth writing group #ManyVoices

It is our pleasure to announce that our international guest writer for LGBT Youth Scotland’s Many Voices group is Eli Clare, a disabled queer and trans writer-activist based in the United States. Eli will join the group, led by poet Nat Raha, for their final showcase event on 9th September in Edinburgh.

August 24, 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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