The new edition of PENning Magazine, the publication of Scottish PEN, is now available. Scottish PEN is an excellent organisation and I’m really delighted to be a member – PEN has done marvelous work supporting writers at risk around the world and your membership really counts. For more information about becoming a member, take a look here.

PENning: Messages features work in translation from exiled Syrian-Kurdish poet Golan Haji (translated by Marilyn Hacker) and Finnish poet Pekka Kytomaki (translated by Donald Adamson), poems from Gerda Stevenson, A.C. Clarke and Brian Johnstone, and a short story from Lynsey Calderwood. You can read it all in glorious technicolour pdf here.