Scottish 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...
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