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borders</strong>.</p> <p>We are a membership organisation and work with a range of writers, campaigners, activists and communities across Scotland and around the world.</p> <p>Find out more聽<strong><a href="https://scottishpen.org/about/">about us</a></strong>.</p> <p>All members of Scottish PEN subscribe to the聽<strong><a href="https://scottishpen.org/the-pen-charter/">PEN Charter</a></strong>.</p></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:33.33%"></div></div></div> <div class="margin-wrap"> <div class="campaign-list-title"><h2>Latest from our <span style="color: #17a3de;">blog</span></h2></div> <div class="news-list"> <div class="news-item"> <div class="news-item-link"> <a href="https://scottishpen.org/scottish-poets-respond-to-israels-genocide-in-gaza/"><img width="430" height="330" src="https://scottishpen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Merkava_Mk_IV_in_Gazan_street_during_Operation_Swords_of_Iron-430x330.jpg" 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Scottish PEN invites further poetic and literary responses to the poems.</p> </p> <div class="time">January 10, 2024</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="news-item"> <div class="news-item-link"> <a href="https://scottishpen.org/women-of-courage-and-endurance/"><img width="430" height="330" src="https://scottishpen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PublicityLeafletv4_Page_1_border2-430x330.png" class="attachment-small-thumbnail size-small-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" /> <div class="news-description" id="general"> <h3>聽Women of Courage and Endurance</h3></a> <p class="excerpt"><p>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</p> </p> <div class="time">February 19, 2025</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="news-item"> <div class="news-item-link"> <a href="https://scottishpen.org/surveillance-of-writers-in-scotland/"><img width="430" height="330" src="https://scottishpen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/methode-times-prod-web-bin-d2102a1f-a9cf-4630-8d4c-57a1136d2c60-430x330.jpg" class="attachment-small-thumbnail size-small-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Image accompanying The Times article, A Scottish writer who backs independence? MI5 is watching you (picture credit, The Times)" decoding="async" /> <div class="news-description" id="general"> <h3>Surveillance of Writers in Scotland</h3></a> <p class="excerpt"><p>On Saturday, 25 January,聽The Times聽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 Archives at Kew. These documents disclosed that MI5 and the police monitored James Findlay (JF) Hendry, the poet, editor and writer for decades over […]</p> </p> <div class="time">January 27, 2025</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="news-item"> <div class="news-item-link"> <a href="https://scottishpen.org/holocaust-memorial-day-2/"><img width="430" height="330" src="https://scottishpen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Holocaust-survivor-430x330.png" class="attachment-small-thumbnail size-small-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="A survivor attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Death Wall during the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Photograph: Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters" decoding="async" /> <div class="news-description" id="general"> <h3>Holocaust Memorial Day</h3></a> <p class="excerpt"><p>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 of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland. 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