I’ve said it a hundred times
I’ve watched for years beautiful roads beautiful highways its amazing its amazing can you believe it? take a look walls do work walls do work. So nice and quiet no spirit. It’s very simple I’ve said it...
View ArticleMany Voices opportunities for writers
Applications are currently open for writers to deliver creative workshops as part of our Many Voices project, funded by Creative Scotland. Many Voices is our exciting new project working with six...
View ArticleSome thoughts on Artists and Injustice
Regardless of class we are surrounded by injustice. This is reality. Allowances are not made for Artists. Nobody is exempted from the experience. It affects us directly and indirectly. It is how we...
View ArticleEm hene! (We Exist!)
Some people find it possible to support campaigns on behalf of writers imprisoned for their political beliefs without worrying about the substance of these beliefs, why the writers are imprisoned in...
View ArticleLiterary freedom and human rights
Taslima Nasrin is not safe inside her own country and like countless other human beings has been forced to seek sanctuary abroad. She is now living in exile in Sweden. Only months ago I attended...
View ArticleThe “Freedom for Freedom of Expression” Rally, Istanbul 1997
The arrogance of [the Iranian King] Jamshid had set his subjects in revolt against him, and a great army marched towards Arabia from the highlands of Iran. They had heard that in Arabia there was a man...
View ArticleAndy Wightman MSP, Defamation & Public Interest Reporting
Scottish PEN condemns the action brought against Andy Wightman MSP and calls for reform to adequately protect free expression & public interest reporting. Free expression in Scotland is done a...
View ArticlePress Release: Announcing Many Voices, a Scottish PEN project
Funded by Creative Scotland and in partnership with six Scottish organisations Aims to give marginalised groups and communities across Scotland opportunity to express themselves through writing...
View ArticleTalking Doorsteps: Opportunity for young poets (16-25)
We are delighted to get to share an opportunity for young people (16-25) to attend a free week-long poetry workshop based in Glasgow from 28 March – 1 April 2017. Scottish PEN is working with PEN...
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Letter from Iain Galbraith
This letter is being reproduced with permission by Iain Galbraith. The post Letter from Iain Galbraith appeared first on Scottish PEN.
View ArticleInvestigatory Powers Bill
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2016-2017/0062/17062.pdf Read the latest draft of the full bill. The post Investigatory Powers Bill appeared first on Scottish PEN.
View ArticleJoint Bill Committee
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt201516/jtselect/jtinvpowers/93/93.pdf Scottish PEN was also quoted by the Joint Bill Committee in their report on the bill (p.118). The post Joint Bill...
View ArticleScottish Law Commission
http://scottishpen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Libel-Reform-Campaign-Consultation-Response.pdf As part of its ninth Schedule of reform the Scottish Law Commission is seeking to reform defamation law...
View ArticleHave you ever defamed someone?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/scottishpencentre/have-you-ever-defamed-someone-2iy4x Defamation laws do not only affect journalists, they can chill free speech for everyone. Check out this Buzzfeed quiz to...
View ArticleNational Collective
http://nationalcollective.com/2013/04/18/we-will-not-be-bullied/ During the Indy Referendum, National Collective ran a story about the donations made to the Better Together campaign by Ian Taylor, the...
View ArticleStrathaven
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14440933.Labour_ex_minister_s_purchase_of_museum_mansion_sparks_landmark_Facebook_defamation_case/ A Facebook group for the town of Strathaven has become embroiled in...
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Jenni Calder: “Ninety Years of Scottish PEN”
Talk delivered at the University of Glasgow Scottish PEN symposium 28.03.17 The year is 1927, nine years since the end of a war that fractured Europe. What is happening in Scotland? Heavy industry is...
View ArticleThe PENning anthology is here!
We are delighted to get to share with you the PENning anthology I’M COMING WITH YOU, edited by the Writers in Exile committee, with a foreword by Jackie Kay. You can buy the anthology HERE on our...
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We’re hiring! Project Coordinator (fixed term, part-time)
We are looking for a Project Coordinator to work on Scottish PEN’s 90th anniversary travelling exhibition. The exhibition, which will tour locations all over Scotland, highlights the role of Scottish...
View ArticleBig Lit Festival: Ghazi Hussein
I am a terrorist. The words, from the brown-eyed, brown-skinned man on the platform are what? chilling? provocative? angry? The one thing the audience at the Faed Gallery know is that they are not true...
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