Name: International Woman's Day - Women of Courage and Endurance
Start: 2026-03-10T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-10T20:30:00+00:00
Location: Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh

International Woman's Day - Women of Courage and Endurance

Readings by Scottish Gazan poet Nada Shawa plus work of imprisoned international woman writers by UoEd Creative Writing students
About this Event

Scottish PEN invites you to come and celebrate International Women's Day with Scottish Gazan poet Nada Shawa, author of Indigenous Soul, Gaza and me, and students from the UoEd Creative Writing MSc who will present the work of imprisoned woman writers internationally and some of their own.

Work from:

International writers Amanda Echanis (Philippines); Mahvash Sabet (iran); Meral

Şimşek (Turkey); Kaciaryna Andrejeva (Belarus) and Mikeas Sánchez Gómez (Mexico)

MSc students Eva Hays, Talitha Kaethler, Kim Cullen, Sonya Macdonald, and Natalie Penry