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Come Here: Scottish Poets Respond to the Children of Gaza
At the request of Scottish PEN member Heather Kiernan, working with the Hands Up Project, Scottish PEN organised a call-out to Scottish poets to respond to ‘Moon Tell Me Truth’, illustrated poems by...
View ArticleScottish PEN Statement on Police Violence against Peaceful Activists at Govan...
Scottish PEN is shocked and appalled at the level of violence used by Police Scotland against peaceful activists on Wednesday 3rd July 2024. Police violence occurred following a peaceful protest at...
View ArticleScottish PEN Statement on Event Cancellations – 2024
As the Edinburgh Festival Fringe comes to a close for another year, Scottish PEN finds itself in a position for a second year running where it must express regret regarding a continuing situation in...
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Publish and Perish: The arts in Glasgow today
Scottish PEN Trustee Dave Manderson writes on the threat to the arts in GlasgowTo me, it started with the Art School, where the upsurge in the arts in Glasgow in the twentieth and twenty-first...
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UK Foreign Secretary must act: Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah now
Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s vital writing in his collected works, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated is like an explainer of why the principles of the PEN International Charter are so vital. Scottish PEN is proud...
View ArticleHolocaust Memorial Day
Every year on 27 January the UK marks the horrific organised slaughter perpetrated in Europe in the 1930s and 40s and in many other parts of the world since then. This year marks the 80th anniversary...
View ArticleSurveillance of Writers in Scotland
On Saturday, 25 January, The Times published an article by senior news reporter Marc Horne, regarding the release of security service files that have recently been opened and placed in the UK National...
View ArticleWomen of Courage and Endurance
Join Scottish writers reading international writers struggling against oppression and sharing their own work at this free International Women’s Day event, 7th March 2025 Chair: Louise Welsh, SPEN Hon...
View ArticleStatement on Quaker Meeting House raid and freedom of expression
Scottish PEN condemns the recent police raid on the Quaker Meeting House, central London, on Thursday 27th March 2025. This raid and the subsequent arrest of 6 young women is deplorable and constitutes...
View ArticleProscribing Palestine Action as terrorist organisation threatens fundamental...
30 June 2025 – English PEN, Scottish PEN, Wales PEN Cymru and PEN International are deeply concerned by the UK government’s proposal to proscribe the protest group Palestine Action under terrorism...
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