April Saturday 1st 2017 in Venue One, Rich Mix: London
2pm / 4pm / 7.30pm – Entrance Free but membership appreciated.
The English PEN Modern Literature Festival sees 30 contemporary UK-based writers present new works in tribute to writers at risk around the world at Rich Mix, London, on April 1st 2017. #penfestuk. More info here.
Writers poets, novelists, playwrights and artists come together to continue English PEN’s relationship with innovative contemporary literature over an extraordinary day where each of the writers presented brand new poetry, text, reportage & performance on a day that celebrated and evidenced the struggle of fellow writers around the world, in solidarity.
The 2017 festival will feature Denise Riley, Sarah Howe, Hannah Silva, Sandeep Parmar, Vahni Capildeo, Luke Kennard, Tom Jenks, John Hall, Nathan Jones, Tony White, Matthew Welton, Susie Campbell, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Chrissy Williams, Camilla Nelson, Chloe Spicer, Nisha Ramayya, Carol Watts, Larry Lynch, Kate Wakeling, Rebecca Tamas, matt martin, Zoë Skoulding, Mischa Foster Poole, Simon Pomery, Peter Philpott, Lavinia Singer, Sasha Dugdale and SJ Fowler.
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Reading Order:
2pm to 3.30pm
Luke Kennard – Raif Badawi
Nisha Ramayya – Aseem Trivedi
Susie Campbell – Tsering Woeser
Lavinia Singer – Zhu Yufu
SJ Fowler – Waleed Abu Al Khair
Mischa Foster Poole – Alaa Abd El Fattah
Chloe Spicer – Dina Meza
Kate Wakeling – Nurmuhemmet Yasin
Denise Riley – Necmiye Alpay
4pm to 5.30pm
Hannah Silva – Narges Mohammadi
Rebecca Tamas – Ashraf Fayadh
matt martin – Amanuel Asrat
John Hall – Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace
Carol Watts – Aslı Erdoğan
Tom Jenks – Nabeel Rajab
Peter Philpott – Dawit Isaak
Camilla Nelson – Dareen Tatour
Zoë Skoulding – Sanjuana Martinez Montemayor
7.30pm to 9.30pm
Sasha Dugdale – Ahmet and Mehmet Altan
Simon Pomery – Nguyen Van Dai
Sandeep Parmar – Lydia Cacho
Nathan Jones – Zunar
Jeremy Noel-Tod – Nelson Aguilera
Chrissy Williams – The Al-Khawaja family
Tony White – Ahmed Naji
Larry Lynch – Oleg Sentsov
Matthew Welton – Tutul
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett – Liu Xia
Vahni Capildeo – The Douma 4