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The 2013 Palestine Festival of Literature
The 6th Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) will take place between May 23rd and 31st. Over the course of the festival, free public events will be held in Gaza City, Haifa, Jerusalem, Nablus and Ramallah.
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Two fantastic jobs at the British Council
The British Council Literature department is looking for two new Literature Advisers to join the team.
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Cariblit site goes live!
A new website to help build a publishing infrastructure across the Caribbean is being launched at the NGC BOCAS Lit Fest in Trinidad and Tobago today.
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Barbara Nadel - 'New Fiction: Fantasy and Crime'
I'm sure that a lot of people think that writers just have endless fun making stuff up all day, wearing slippers to work and having half an eye on 'The Jeremy Kyle Show'.
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Seven short eats from Sri Lanka
Novelist Anjali Joseph gives us a taste of the recent Colomboscope festival and her time in Kandy and Jaffna.
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Dhaka diary
Poet Tom Warner meets the inspirational Benjali writers' group, Brine Pickles, in Bangladesh's capital.
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WHAT IS THERE - Reality vs. Fiction
After a residency in Istanbul with the British Council, writer Benjamin Wood blogs on the methodology of fiction: "Appropriation. Curation. Slanting and shading."
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Out Of It in Lahore
Bloomsbury novelist Selma Dabbagh gives her personal take on the first Lahore Literary Festival
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Reel Iraq: Found in Translation
poetry from and for Iraq
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Francesca Beard gets poets on stage in Khartoum
Francesca recently lead an action packed series of workshops in Sudan. Read her blog, and her poem describing the experience, below...
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