Scottish PEN Readings at Leith Festival

Bond 09 Cocktail Bar, 84 Commercial Street Leith
3pm Scottish PEN WRITERS IN EXILE.
We celebrate a year of our on-line magazine, New Writing (click on New Writing above to view current and past issues). Scottish PEN writers Bashabi Fraser, Elspeth Brown and Sue Reid Sexton will be accompanying refugee writers, Kusay Hussein and Abdul Muqadus, for short readings of their work in the magazine and elsewhere and discussion of the experience of writers in exile.
4pm Scottish PEN DEPARTURES and ARRIVALS
Themed discussion and readings from leading Scottish authors: Louise Welsh (The Cutting Room, Naming the Bones); Zoe Strachan (Negative Space, Spin Cycle); and Ron Butlin (The Sound of My Voice, Belonging) to promote the release of the latest Scottish PEN CD, Departures and Arrivals (details at http://www.scottishpen.org/buy).

Admission Free, donations to Scottish PEN