Event 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...
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 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...
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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...
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