International Women’s Day free event: Women of Courage and Endurance
Readings of international writers struggling against oppression by UoEd Creative Writing students. Featuring Nada Shawa, Scottish Gazan poet, author of Indigenous Soul: Gaza and Me Chair: Ruth Aylett,...
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Statement on the Arrest of Activists under the Terrorism Act
1 December, 2025: Scottish PEN stands in solidarity with writers, artists and activists arrested in Scotland and charged under the Terrorism Act for protesting in support of the ideal of one humanity...
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Statement on the Arrest of Scottish PEN Vice-President
Scottish PEN is very gravely concerned by the recent arrest and charges under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act of its vice-president, Lizzie Eldridge, for taking part in a silent protest against the...
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Lizzie Eldridge Interviewed by Palestine International Broadcast
Lizzie Eldridge, the chair of Scottish PEN’s Writers At Risk Committee, was recently interviewed by Palestine International Broadcast in her capacity as a writer and activist. The discussion covered...
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Statement on the arrest of award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty
Ken Loach and Paul Laverty standing in solidarity with activists at the Edinburgh Film Festival Today, 26 August, 2025, Scottish PEN released the statement below on the arrest of award-winning...
View ArticleEman Alhaj Ali – If I must tell this story: From the ruins of Gaza
In a Scottish PEN event held at The Ark in Glasgow on 16th August 2025, Eman Al Haj Ali talks about her recent experiences in Gaza and the deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists. Eman Alhaj...
View ArticleUpcoming events in August
Scottish PEN is supporting the Scottish Poetry Library in the presentation of two events in August. 11 August, 2-4pm We Are Not Numbers: the Voices of Gaza’s Youth Ahmed Alnouaq, co-editor of this...
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...
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 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 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 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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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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 handling of journalists and protesters at...
Scottish PEN is deeply concerned about reported police aggression towards peaceful protesters at Thales Arms Factory, Govan, on Wednesday 15 May 2024. The protest peacefully and successfully closed...
View ArticleScottish PEN statement on the denial of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitta’s entry to France
Scottish PEN is appalled by the news that Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitta was prevented from entering France on Saturday 4th May 2024. Dr Abu-Sitta is a renowned British-Palestinian plastic surgeon, rector of...
View ArticleEvent postponement
We have had to take the decision to postpone the event, ‘Declarations: On Freedom for Writers, Readers and Palestine’, which had been due to take place at Lighthouse Bookshop on Friday, 5th April. We...
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