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University of Oklahoma student Daria Shchukina recounts her recent trip to the 2024 ALTA conference and the impact it made on helping her further her academic and prof…
From the Road
November 14, 2024
May 30, 2024Photo by Madeline Myers Reflecting on their trip to attend a conference dedicated to literary and research publications, two University of Oklahoma student editors share insights learned and i…
November 1, 2017From left to right: Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Pajtim Statovci, Tore Renberg, Kamila Shamsie, and Jo Nesbø.On a recent Saturday, the Southbank Centre in central London…
February 20, 2017Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ta-Neihisi Coates in conversation at AWP / Photo: Alexandra GoodmanArmed with a printed schedule and a head full of advice, I walked boldly into my first ever AWP. I was h…
February 13, 2017The Free Minds book club and writing workshop at AWP empowered young inmates to “write new chapters in their lives.” Said Nokomis, “Free Minds encouraged me to be a better writer . . . to be a bigger…
November 21, 2016It’s no secret that the city of Austin is a music-festival mecca, but this November the 21st annual Texas Book Festival proved that a literary festival can equally flourish and energize this arts-and-…
April 18, 2016Courtesy of the SARAS InstituteLast month I had the marvelous opportunity, as a poet, of participating in the annual conference of an international scientific organization, the South American Institut…
November 30, 2015Arch of Marcus Aurelius, Tripoli. Photo by Neil Weightman.“Whoever is uprooted, uproots others.” Simone Weil’s wise words to Charles de Gaulle, future president of France, in 1943, with France still u…
October 21, 2015Josías López Gómez. Photo by Dr. Arturo Arias/ www.utexas.eduI’m in Guadalajara as one of three judges for the Premio de Literaturas Indígenas de las Américas (Prize for Indigenous Literatur…
October 12, 2015Participants at the first South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival I have just returned from an extraordinary journey into the Republic of Poetry. The occasion was the first South Asian Diaspora Poet…
May 11, 2015Poets attending the 2015 Festival Internacional de Poesía in Granada, Nicaragua. Photo: Arnulfo AgüeroIn her spellbinding The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War (2002), Gioconda…
March 10, 2015Photos by Jordan WoodwardAs I opened to the first page of Yellowcake, a novel chronicling the lives of uranium miners in Colorado and New Mexico, I was sitting in the entryway to my…
February 12, 2015Mohamed Nedali’s debut novel, Morceaux de choix: les amours d’un apprenti-boucher, was selected by Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio as the winner of the Prix Grand Atlas in 2005. I recen…
January 14, 2015Dipika Mukherjee reports on the first-ever Migrant Workers Poetry Competition in Singapore, at which construction-site laborers read their poems in November. Rarely is poetry, with its messy…
October 29, 2014For more on Santa Fe’s Biblioteca Amigos Library, read Figueroa's outpost featuring this bilingual literary hub in the November 2014 issue of World Literature Today.I have read Fahrenheit…
May 8, 2014I land in Los Angeles and meet up with Mandy Kahn and David Shook, who’ve just returned from a week in Seattle, armed with a box of poetry from AWP. After Mandy drops us off, David and I grab a quick…
December 18, 2013From left: K. Anis Ahmed, Eliot Weinberger, and Pankaj Mishra at the Hay Festival Dhaka, November 14, 2013.A foreignness defined only by place of production or setting…
November 18, 2013Dhaka Taxis. Photo by v i p e z/FlickrI’m in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for just the second time, almost exactly one year after my first visit, but things are eerily different. The drive from Dhaka Internatio…
September 25, 2013André Naffis-Sahely and Breyten Breytenbach. Photo by Victor DlaminiPart 2 continues with highlights from the “Dancing in Other Words” festival; if you haven’t read part 1 a…
September 23, 2013After being invited by Breyten Breytenbach to attend the “Dancing in Other Words” festival in Stellenbosch, South Africa, this past May, André Naffis-Sahely sent us the following travelogue. Part…
August 28, 2013In 2007 Persian English translator and writer Raha Namy set off on a bicycle ride through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, coming to a stop at the Occupied Territories of the West Bank (Israel). She an…
May 7, 2013In my travels around the global literary scene, the question of a writerly identity has never seemed more precarious, conflicted, and urgent than with writers from Africa. More o…
November 19, 2012K. Anis AhmedLast Thursday, the second annual Dhaka Hay Festival opened with a moderated dialogue between Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif and the most exciting new Bangladeshi talent writing in Engl…
November 16, 2012Last week Tijuana celebrated the tenth annual Festival de Literatura del Noroeste (FeLiNo), which began on 7 November, at its Cultural Center. The center itself is celebrating its thirtieth anniversar…- September 12, 2012From the Clinton Library, a view of a bridge crossing the Arkansas River.Every two years a group of outstanding international writers gathers for the International Conference on the Short Story in Eng…
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