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This month we are featuring postcard messages from the Sighthill Refugee Week event by Lamees Tayyem (Palestinian refugee from Syria) and Scottish PEN member Richard Roberts. The photo shows Lamees helping Mary McCabe and Maya Mohammed at the workshop.

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PENning Journeys, the May issue of our on-line magazine, New Writing, is now on line. We are now open for submissions for our October issue, PENning Water.

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The round table sessions of the Bled conference were devoted to 'Globalisation, an opportunity for all or a new colonisation for many'; 'Literature and Globalisation'; and 'Peace between diurnal and nocturnal dreams'. Delegates spoke in Slovene, French or English.

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Fatos Lubonja gave the Scottish PEN lecture at Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2009.

Writers in Prison

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A Scottish PEN collaboration organised and sponsored by the Confucius Institute for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh.

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Glasgow University PEN celebrated Human Rights Day three days early

Event Report , Writers in Prison

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The February issue of New Writing, PENning The Warming World, is now on-line.

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The new double CD from Scottish PEN features specially commissioned writing from 24 Scottish Writers on the theme of migration and homecoming.

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Oslo, Norway, 1st-6th June 2009. Oslo, Norway, 1st-6th June 2009. The forum was planned by The Freedom of Expression Foundation, Norwegian PEN and the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX). It was the largest gathering ever held of organisations working for freedom of expression.

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