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The Exiled Writers Ink Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize Award 2018
The Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize Award A little more than a year after joining the board of Exiled Writers Ink, and a few months after agreeing to Chair the board for the year, on March 29th, I attended the Bart Wolffe Poetry Award evening and was reminded of why this organization is so valuable and [...]
Agit Lit Cafe for International Women’s Day
Collaborative Poem created 5.3.2018: Uncensored Women’s Words An evening focusing on the diverse oppressions against women and their resistance to them. […]
Words for the silenced
By Catherine T Davidson Reflections on EWI’s Second Agit Lit event On February 5, I hosted an event at the Poetry Café in Covent Garden on behalf of Exiled Writers Ink, London’s longstanding umbrella organisation for refugee and immigrant poets and writers. It was our second “Agit Lit” event — where we combine an evening of poetry [...]
Why what we do in small rooms matters
Last night, I introduced the readers at my first ever hosting of the Exiled Lit Café by talking about what we do in small rooms and why it matters. We were in the Betsey Trotwood pub (named for the irrepressible character in David Copperfield) in Farringdon, a London neighbourhood where old and new mingle with [...]
On Love And Tribes In A New World Order
Some time ago I visited a part of the world that I once could loosely call ‘my country’. What was once one country is now seven. If this sounds like a riddle - it is. I use the word ‘loosely’ retrospectively because some people like me; rightly or wrongly, once regarded that part of the [...]
Free Delphi
This is not about Delphi the supernatural oracle, as it happens it's about a natural man/poet. And for that matter not in Greek but in Persian. And as the story goes: on a December evening in Abadan, five plain clothes officers arrive at the Delphi's family home with a search and arrest warrant for Raaouf [...]
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Exiled Writers Ink Calls for a Ceasefire
Exiled Writers Ink calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. We urgently demand the protection of civilians, an end to the siege and the release of all remaining hostages. Peace must prevail.
We are a literary, human rights-supporting, international organisation, many of whose members have fled state-sponsored violence, genocide, civil war, racism, social injustice and discrimination. We watch with grave concern as the ongoing atrocities that began on October 7 and crashed like a wave through the population of Gaza, spreads its dark cloud over our streets here in the UK, giving rise to increasing levels of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.
Writers and poets do have the power of the pen which is why they are so often targeted. We believe in the ability of shared stories to shape a better future. We call on individuals and organisations to join us in building an Anti-Racism Collective, to increase empathy across all borders and to honour our shared humanity.
Pen to Print interviews Chair Rouhi Shafii, 2023
https://refugeeradio.org.uk/2022/07/11/shahireh/
https://refugeeradio.org.uk/2022/05/05/nasrin/
https://refugeeradio.org.uk/2021/02/05/hamed/
https://refugeeradio.org.uk/2021/01/13/amir-darwish/
https://refugeeradio.org.uk/2021/01/13/shirin/
https://refugeeradio.org.uk/2020/11/09/mansour/
https://refugeeradio.org.uk/2020/09/29/rahima/
We are delighted to announce that Exiled Writers Ink
is on the Publishers Award’s Shortlist for the
2021 Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets.
Judges’ Comments “Over the past few years, the publishing arm of London’s Exiled Writers Ink writing group has consistently issued pamphlets featuring poets of the highest quality drawn from all parts of the world, including Cyprus, Sierra Leone, Syria, Algeria and Afghanistan, supporting the urgent work of deracinated writers, migrants and refugees. Their mentorship scheme, pairing emerging poets with established tutors and editors makes for a list that brims with verve and vivacity.” click here >
The Guardian
Exiled Writers Ink letter to The Guardian (9.7.2021) against Priti Patel’s new proposals for dealing with refugees. Read more >
Letter in the Guardian about Ilhan Comak and our February 2020 Exiled Lit Cafe.
Read more >
The Times
Call for Afghan actors, writers, and filmmakers to be given safe passage. Index on Censorship Letter to The Times (11.9.2021) signed by some Exiled Writers Ink people. Click here >
Exiled Writers Ink signs letter: Afghanistan – Cultural organisations urge UK government to act
https://www.englishpen.org/posts/news/afghanistan-cultural-organisations-urge-uk-government-to-open-acrs/
RESISTANCE ANTHOLOGY
Press Review about Resistance book. Read more >
Resistance anthology, press release >
Review of Resistance anthology and the 2021 chapbooks . Read review >
Hampstead and Highgate Express. Includes interviews with poets, Amir Darwish and Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes. Read review >
BLM:
Exiled Writers Ink Black Lives Matter Statement. Read more >
Synchronicity
Illegal Immigration Bill – click here to read >
SOCIAL MEDIA
