The Slovene PEN Centre is the Slovene branch of International PEN, a worldwide association of writers founded in 1921 with the aim to promote literature, defend freedom of expression and work for peaceful coexistence between nations.

Part of the Sector for Arts of the Creativity Directorate at the Ministry of Culture , the Section for Music covers all genres of music creation including opera and ballet.

The LUD Literatura (LUD stands for Literary Artistic Association) was established in 1989 to publish the newly autonomous Literatura Magazine.

Šerpa Literary Art Association (LUD Šerpa) was founded in 2003 as a non - profit publisher of books by Slovene authors, translations of historical avant-garde texts which have not hitherto been published in Slovenian, and marginal texts by well-known authors.