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Messages from Home: featured postcards

scottishpen — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:14:09 +0100

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.

May issue of New Writing now on-line. Call for submissions for October issue

scottishpen — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:42:49 +0100

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.

Report of the International PEN Writers for Peace Conference in Bled, Slovenia, March 2010

scottishpen — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:05:13 +0100

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.

Review of Fatos Lubonja's Second Sentence

scottishpen — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:59:10 +0100

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

China Inside-Out. 11-13 March 2010. A celebration of Chinese Women Writers in English.

scottishpen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:07:15 +0000

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

Celebrating Human Rights Day

scottishpen — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:02:32 +0000

Glasgow University PEN celebrated Human Rights Day three days early

February Issue of New Writing

scottishpen — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:19:28 +0100

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

Now Out - Departures and Arrivals Double CD

scottishpen — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:38:10 +0100

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

Global Forum on Freedom of Expession

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:58:33 +0100

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.