Exiled Writers INK mentoring scheme

The Mentoring and Translation Scheme was Arts Council funded. Selected refugee and exiled poets and prose writers worked on a one-to-one basis with established poets and writers over eight weeks or so. Each person then produced a chap book featuring their work. Multiple copies were printed and donated to the writers and for many, this was the first time that their work had appeared in English. Finally, a Grand Night of Exiled Writers was held at the Amnesty International Human Rights Centre at which the newly published writers performed their work.

COUPLINGS FIREWORKS
An explosive evening of new work by exiled writers – edited in a two-way process of exiled writing into English and English work into exiled writers’ languages.
Roda Mire, Somali writer, with Esther Lipton, poet and short story writer, barrister Navid Hamzavi, Iranian short story writer and novelist, with David Clark, academic and poet, Mabel Encinas, Mexican poet, with Simon Altmann, physicist and poet Nasrin Parvaz, Iranian writer, with Anouche Sherman, poet, translator and multi-media artist Sofia Buchuck, Peruvian poet, with Laila Sumpton, poet and human rights activist Lara Popovic, Serbian poet, and Hasani Hasani, Zimbabwean poet, with Ziba Karbassi, poet

Are you a refugee, exiled writer whose work needs editing? Contact jennifer@exiledwriters.fsnet.co.uk Exiled Writers Ink will try and match you with a partner. Wanted! Can you work with an exiled, refugee poet or prose writer to edit their work collaboratively? Any help would be appreciated, from editing one or two poems or a short story to doing more. Make your own arrangements with the writer to meet to discuss the work. In return, the exiled writer will translate your work into their language. Exiled Writers Ink will arrange a performance of the edited and translated work of the exiled and English writers. Contact: jennifer@exiledwriters.fsnet.co.uk

Exiled Writers Ink and The Literary Consultancy present

Access to the UK Literature World

for Writers with Refugee and Migrant Backgrounds

Saturday 13th February from 3 to 5 pm on Zoom

With magazine, poetry and prose publishers and editors.
Ask your questions.

Aki Schilz of The Literary Consultancy
Clare Pollard of Modern Poetry in Translation
Kevin Duffy of Bluemoose Books
Briony Bax of Ambit
Michael Schmidt of Carcanet
Emily Berry of Poetry Review

Entrance: £5 and £3 for 2021 EWI members

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/access-to-the-uk-literature-world-tickets-137287722273

Final Event of the Mentoring and Translation Project

Exiled Writers Ink Invites You to

Two Nights of Special Showcase Launches

Come and hear amazing new exiled writers launch their chap books

All have been mentored by established writers and translators:

Alireza Abiz, Atef Alshaer, Aviva Dautch, Catherine Davidson, Isabel del Rio, Jane Duran, Graham Fawcett, Hamid Kabir, Ariel Kahn and Nick Makoha.

Poetry: Thursday 21st January at 7 pm via Zoom
RSVP exiledwritersink@gmail.com
or register here on Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exiled-writers-ink-presents-special-showcase-launch-poetry-chap-books-tickets-132511618819

Prose: Thursday 28th January at 7 pm via Zoom
RSVP exiledwritersink@gmail.com
or register here on Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exiled-writers-ink-presents-special-showcase-launch-of-prose-chap-books-tickets-132513093229

We hope you will feature the work in your magazines, events, festivals and publications

Entrance: £5 and £3 for 2021 EWI members
Chap books: £5 for one and £12 for three

Part of the Exiled Writers Ink Mentoring and Translation Scheme funded by

Nina and Roger Stewart Charitable Trust

Exiled Writers Ink National Mentoring and Translation Scheme

Our Mentoring and Translation scheme continues.

Chapbooks for each participant will be published and then launched to the literary world. A training session on access to the UK literary world will then be organised.

We are proud that these established writers and translators are involved in the scheme as mentors and translators:

Alireza Abiz, Atef Alshaer, Aviva Dautch, Catherine Davidson, Isobel del Rio, Jane Duran, Graham Fawcett, Hamid Kabir, Ariel Kahn and Nick Makoha.

Nina and Roger Stewart
Charitable Trust