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International writers converge on the Thames to work in London's smallest library
Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 / 00:00 hrsThroughout 2012, writers from around the world will take up residence in A Room for London on the bank of the River Thames and take part in a series of monthly writings and recordings inspired by the space and the city below
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Writers' Centre Norwich and The British Council present: The Norwich Showcase
Posted on: Thursday, January 26, 2012 / 00:00 hrsAn international showcase of the best in writing and literature development in the UK Norwich, 9-13 March, 2012
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Karachi Jashn-e-Adab: Bringing together International & Pakistani writers to show writing at its best
Posted on: Thursday, January 26, 2012 / 00:00 hrsLaunched in 2010, the annual two-day Karachi Literature Festival is open to all and free.
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In Search of Peace, a solo exhibition by Ajaya Deshar, Georges House Gallery, Folkestone, UK
Posted on: Thursday, January 26, 2012 / 00:00 hrsThe collection In Search of Peace is a culmination of years of work, showing Nepalese people in their everyday search for peace.
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'An 'Epico-Mythico-Tragico-Comico-Super-Sexy-High-Masala-Art': Hindi cinema and the contemporary Indian novel in English'
Posted on: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 / 00:00 hrsSouth Asian Fiction: Contemporary Transformations seminar at the University of London Union with Florian Stadtler on 25 January at 5.30pm
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The Summer School on Black Europe, an intensive two week course offered in Amsterdam, is accepting applications for its 5th annual course
Posted on: Monday, January 09, 2012 / 00:00 hrsThe Summer School on Black Europe, an intensive two week course offered in Amsterdam, is accepting applications for its 5th annual course
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7th Annual Huntley Conference: Arts and Activism, Culture and Resistance
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2011 Man Asian Literary Prize Shortlist Announcement on 10 January 2012
Posted on: Monday, December 19, 2011 / 00:00 hrsThe Man Asian Literary Prize will be holding the shortlist announcement for the 2011 Prize at a special event at Asia House, London, on 10 January 2012. Chair Judge Razia Iqbal will announce the shortlist at 10am in London (6pm Hong Kong) which will be broadcast live online at www.manasianliteraryprize.org
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Join the Poetry Library to discuss the ten books shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize
Posted on: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 / 00:00 hrsJoin the Poetry Library to discuss the books shortlisted for the 2011 TS Eliot Prize, described as 'the world's top poetry award'. Admission is free but booking is necessary.
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Asian Bloomsbury: Writing Beyond the Frame by Susheila Nasta, New Delhi, 14 December
Posted on: Friday, December 09, 2011 / 00:00 hrsJoin Susheila Nasta for a talk on Mulk Raj Anand and Asian Bloomsbury in New Delhi on Wednesday 14 December
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Black Britain Seminar Series: 'Edward Swarthye alias negro": an African in Elizabethan England, 13 December, London
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Poetry School Founder, Mimi Khalvati launches her latest book New and Selected Poems
Posted on: Monday, November 21, 2011 / 00:00 hrsMimi Khalvati launches her latest book of poetry, New and Selected Poems at Poetry East in London on 10 December
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Life Stories Cafe with Dorothea Smartt, Jacob Sam La Rose, Naomi Woddis and Others - 9 December
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Beyond the Frame: Indian British Connections - currently touring India in November and December 2011
Posted on: Sunday, November 20, 2011 / 00:00 hrsBeyond the Frame is touring an expanded twelve panel facsimile exhibition to seven cities in India in 2011 - 2012
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Five writers come together to celebrate Amnesty's Write for Rights Letter-writing campaign - 10 December
Posted on: Sunday, November 20, 2011 / 00:00 hrs5x15 curate an evening in celebration of Amnesty's Write for Rights Letter-writing campaign. 5 speakers come together and are given 15 minutes each to tell true stories of passion, obsession and adventure recounted live with just two rules: no scripts and only fifteen minutes each.
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Landmarks in Book History seminar series - 11 January 2012 - 29 February, Senate House, London
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Symposium: Cultural Identity III: Cultural Identity and the Photographic Archive. FREE BUT YOU MUST BOOK
Posted on: Monday, November 14, 2011 / 00:00 hrsAutograph ABP presents the third in a series of symposia associated with the establishment of Autograph's Archive for Culturally Diverse Photography. FREE but must be booked.
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South Asian Fiction - Research Seminars in London - November 2011 - April 2012
Posted on: Saturday, November 12, 2011 / 00:00 hrsThe seminar series, which will run from November 2011 to April 2012, will enable critics of South Asian literature to locate and reflect on new concerns and developments in the field, and their implications for postcolonial reading practices.
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The Politics of Writing - 26 January, LRB, London - with Maggie Gee, Zaiba Malik, Owen Jones and Jonathan Heawood
Posted on: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 / 00:00 hrsDo writers have a responsibility, particularly in these troubled times, to reflect and comment on the society in which they live? Is this notion of responsibility a valid concept or an imposition: meaningless and at odds with the integrity of the writer and their work? Is it perverse to view 'the writer' as some kind of shaman with unique insight and responsibility? Why does contemporary British fiction seems so little engaged with contemporary British political life?
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Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship - OU Conference 6-7 February 2012 - open for registration
Posted on: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 / 00:00 hrsThe Conference will explore new approaches and methods to conceptualising and politicising citizenship through discussing struggles, contestations and challenges to citizenship around the world.
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Narrating the Caribbean Nation: A Celebration of Literature and Orature Convened by Peepal Tree Press at Leeds Metropolitan University - 14-15 April 2012
Posted on: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 / 00:00 hrsPeepal Tree Press is organsing a two-day conference, Narrating the Caribbean Nation: A Celebration of Literature and Orature, which will be held on 14-15th April 2012 at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. The conference will celebrate the Silver Anniversary of Peepal Tree Press and highlight the contribution of its own authors and other Caribbean and Black British writers to contemporary world literature.
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Writers' Rendevous ... Ha, ha, ha - networking event for the inner comic
Posted on: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 / 00:00 hrsJoin Spread the Word and special guest, comedian Lucy Porter, at a networking event for writers. Bring along a joke to read out - the best (and worst) will receive a hilarious prize. Mix and mingle with fellow writers over a glass of wine and chortle off the winter blues.
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Exploring Memory Through Drama with Ade Solanke - 3 December 2011
Posted on: Monday, October 24, 2011 / 00:00 hrsJoin playwright and screenwriter Ade Solanke on her well regarded practical one day workshop exploring how first and second generation diaspora writers can draw on both their lived experience of Britain and their cultural memory of elsewhere in creating unique stories.
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Agent Seminar & One to One with Isobel Dixon
Posted on: Friday, September 30, 2011 / 00:00 hrsAgent Seminar & One to One with Isobel Dixon Date: 26/11/2011 Times: 10am-12pm: seminar, with afternoon 20 min one to o Prices: £50 / £40 conc Location: Writers' Centre Norwich Book your place on this popular literature development workshop and explore the ins and outs of the literary agent's world with Blake Friedmann's Isobel Dixon. Book online now Description Have you approached agents but had no success? Would you like to improve your chances? Book your place on this popular literature development workshop and explore the ins and outs of the literary agent's world with Blake Friedmann's Isobel Dixon.
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Film screening of the Mangrove Nine (1973) - Brixton, London 8 November at 7pm
Posted on: Monday, September 26, 2011 / 00:00 hrsThe George Padmore Institute in association with the Black Cultural Archives, wil be screening Mangrove Nine, directed by Fanco Rosso and produced with John La Rose. The screening presents the original full version of the documentary and will be introduce by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Paul Reid. This will be followed by a discussion led by Ian Macdonald QC.
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Latest Events from the Poetry Translation Centre 2011
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3rd Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts, 4-7 June 2012, Athens, Greece
Posted on: Monday, August 01, 2011 / 00:00 hrsCall for papers
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Lit for Life celebrations in Delhi and Chennai mark 20 years of The Hindu Literary Review
Posted on: Monday, August 01, 2011 / 00:00 hrs» more
