I’ll be taking part in the Scottish PEN readings this Sunday, 13th June, as part of the Leith Festival. The day is billed as ‘Strangers in a Strange Land: 14 hour literary mash up’, but our events are as follows:
3pm Scottish PEN WRITERS IN EXILE
We celebrate a year of our on-line magazine, New Writing. 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.
The venue is the Bond 09 Cocktail Bar, 84 Commercial Street, Leith. Admission is free but donations to Scottish PEN would be very gratefully received.
