ColabNowNow, Mozambique, Oct. 2018
Poet Tanya Chitunhu blogs about her experiences as one of the digital creatives who took part in the second edition of the ColabNowNow residency hosted by Maputo Fast Forward in Mozambique.
Blog
These blog posts offer an insight into some of the projects that we’ve supported and how the British Council works with literature, including interviews with writers, diaries from international visits, and reflections on completed or on-going projects. The opinions expressed in the blog are those of the authors.
OPEN CALL: Opportunity to Host Poets from Southern Africa
We are looking for UK poetry and literature organisations to design and run a short networking visit by four poets from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Mozambique to the UK in early 2019.
Announcing the Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award shortlist
For the second year British Council are partnering with the Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award.
Indonesia Rights Forum
Join us for a half-day seminar on buying and selling rights to Indonesia
Writers Revealed for Indonesia Market Focus 2019
12 writers will represent Indonesian literature at The London Book Fair in March 2019
Majaaz Poetry Translation Workshop, Tunisia, Sept. 2018
Poet and editor Martha Sprackland writes about her experiences at the Majaaz Poetry Translation Workshop in Tunsia last month. The workshop, run in collaboration with Modern Poetry in Translation magazine, brought together 5 young British poets, and 10 young poets from across the Maghreb, to translate each other’s work at a residential workshop at Villa Ma’amoura, Nabul, Tunisia.
Small Wonder Short Story Festival Writer in Residence
British Council International Writer in Residence Layla AlAmmar was at Small Wonder Festival, September 25 – 1 October 2018
Unwritten Poems – whose voice am I hearing?
Vladimir Lucien, one of the poets involved in the Unwritten Poems project, talks about finding a human story to tell, his fascination with the weather and the nature of Caribbean participation in European wars
Unwritten Poems – telling new stories
Kat Francois, one of the poets involved in the Unwritten Poems project, talks multi-cultural history, looking to the past to help the future, and telling black stories.
Unwritten Poems – "there are more stories to tell"
Jay John talks to Eleanor Turney about the erasure of West Indian contributions to World War One, the importance of telling untold stories and how the global narrative had shifted since 1918
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