WRITERS’ CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTed The english pen modern literature festival
March thursday 8th 2018 : ALL SAINTS CHURCH, KINGSTON
All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames. 14-16 Market Pl, Kingston upon Thames KT1 1JP
WITH writers MONA ARSHI FOR ZEHRA DOGAN / Tony White for Ahmed Naji / Helen Palmer FOR ME NAM / Sara upstone FOR DAWIT ISAAK / Adam Baron FOR Can Dündar & Erdem GüL / PRUDENCE CHAMBERLAIN FOR Patiwat Saraiyaem & Pornthip Munkhong / ELEY WILLIAMS FOR TSERING WOESER / DAVID SPITTLE FOR Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury
About the event : Nearly a dozen contemporary English writers present new works, each in tribute to a writer who is part of the English PEN Writer's at Risk programme, writers living under oppression around the world. http://www.englishpen.org/
Modernist & avant garde writers poets, novelists, playwrights and artists come together to continue English PEN's relationship with innovative contemporary literature. Each of the ten British writers will present brand new poetry, text, reportage, performance on the day. The new works celebrate and evidence the struggle of fellow writers around the world, in solidarity.
The event is intended as a call to membership for writers, artists and readers in a time where we face perilous challenges to our freedom of expression and fundamental rights and hard fought liberties, both internationally and here in the UK. As the world changes so remarkably, and so rapidly, and on a global scale, it is vital the political will of our time and this generation of young, dynamic writers is directed purposefully to the work of English PEN, the writer's charity. The hope is this festival, away from creating new members of PEN, begins involvements and connections which will have exponential resonance for decades to come.
The event is free to attend but attendees are encouraged to join English PEN. The event is part of the wider English PEN Modern Literature Festival www.theenemiesproject.com/englishpen Curated by SJ Fowler and Cat Lucas.
Please join English PEN
You can join English PEN here http://www.englishpen.org/membership/join/ and if you are a writer, poet, artist, or someone who is passionate about defending our fundamental freedom of expression in the UK and around the world, please take the time to do so and become a part of the future of this extraordinary organisation.
