[CLOSED] We’re commissioning writers to deliver creative workshops to marginalised communities around Scotland.

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.

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

Outdated defamation laws can have a chilling effect on freedom of expression. Scotland deserves better.

Bernardo Otaola reflects on creating work that satisfies all your needs and interests.

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 […]

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Zoë Wicomb presents “Writing and the Stranger” Transcript of talk These days the foreigner is much discussed in political discourse, but I am going to say a few words on the foreigner in relation to writing and, in doing so, revisit a lecture I gave at the University of Rome some 10 years ago. At the risk of sounding […]