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The
organisation aims to facilitate the wider dissemination of work
by writers in exile and to ensure they have a platform.
- It aims to raise awareness
of literature by writers in exile by organising events such as seminars,
workshops, conferences, interactive performances and festivals.
- It aims to facilitate the publication of work by writers
in exile including addressing translation issues.
- It aims to give a high profile
to translators who enable the work of exiled writers to become accessible.
- It aims to develop literary creativity
in the broadest sense within the refugee communities.
- It aims to work in an education
context in schools, colleges etc.
- It aims to form links with other
literary/arts groups.
- It aims to act as a pressure
group against racism and the abuse of human rights worldwide.
- It aims to develop dialogue through
literature.
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Poetry Café, London
Photo: Miriam Frank
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Writers originate
from:
Afghanistan,
Albania, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, China, Congo,
Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Kosova, Kurdistan, Latin America, Nigeria,
Palestine, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Uganda, Zimbabwe
and other countries and including writers from all ethnic minority groups
as well as Holocaust survivors.
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Some examples of our work
- Creative writing workshops
with and for refugees and exiles in London and increasingly
across the UK and Europe e.g Diaspora City: Global Refugees with Staffordshire
University and Afghan Youth Association; dialogue through literature
e.g Across the Divide workshops.
- Exiled Writers Ink offers workshops
with established exiled writers for schools, colleges
and other organisations and groups.
- Mentoring and Translation Scheme
- Publications: Exiled
Ink magazine. Anthologies: Kurdish literature, Across the Divide and
chap books by individual exiled writers. Anthologies of literature by
exiled writers published by Five Leaves www.fiveleaves.co.uk
- Live Literature: Exiled
Lit Cafe at the Poetry Cafe, London; Voices in a Strange Land in Margate,
Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and Leeds; Voices in a Strange City
at the Tricycle, Bull and Questors theatres; Foyles bookshop; Somali-Exiled
Voices Fusion, Border Words at Borders bookshop, Haringey Literature
Festival etc
- Theatre Performances: Breaking
the Silence: Somali Women Speak Out performed at Hampstead, Soho, Arts
Depot, Birmingham Rep, Abbey St Albans, The Junction Cambridge, and
Burton Taylor Oxford theatres; Peeling the Skin of Time performed at
the New End and Arcola Theatres; And the City Spoke: European Exiled
Voices performed in London, Warsaw, Gdynia and Ferrara; A Mouthful of
Africa performed at Oxford House theatre.
- Seminars and Conferences:
Another Land Another Voice at the Soho Theatre and
Writers Centre in association with Index on Censorship; Exiled Ink Summer
LitFest; Writing Resistance ConFest in association with English Pen,
joint seminars with the School of Advanced Study etc. Participation
in conferences: Writing Diasporas at Swansea University, Fortress Europe
and its 'Others' at the School of Advanced Study, University of London,
Women, Migration and Human Rights, Casablanca, etc
- Events: Sep
11th: The Voice of the Outsider; Across the Divide: Palestinian and
Israeli writers speak out; Forgotten Genocides: Halabja and Anfal, Kosova:
Sharing the Pain
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