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In the Unlimited Confines of My Creativity, I Was Free: Hannah Branston in Conversation with Ade Adedeji
Hannah Branston and Ade Adedeji on art and activism.
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Leaping Seasons
Hongyu Jasmine Zhu on precious memories with her mother.
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Producing unusualness, writing expands our sense of what is possible. Imaginable. Livable. Publishing women authors is not a minor component in this process.
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The category of ‘woman writer’ can include anyone who covers gender-based oppression and violence from a position of lived experience, but only – and most importantly – if they want or need for the category to contain them.
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I continue to be haunted by a persistent feeling of being neither here nor there: a sense of emptiness people can only experience when they feel they are uprooted from their natural environment.
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This being the Year of Publishing Women, we are dedicating our first issue to women’s writing, bringing together voices from Mexico, Argentina, Singapore, and the UK.
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Welcome to PEN Transmissions! We are a new online zine dedicated to international writing.
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I am an artist, I get to be my home, my own language, my own culture.
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A woman walked out of Evin Prison in Tehran late one evening. Her face was pale from long confinement but her eyes shone bright.
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I lay back in the grass among fallen trees and the heat of sun on my palm felt like a knife I could use to bleed myself dry with one swift cut to the jugular.
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I am writing this in a prison cell. But I am not in prison. I am a writer.
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Ahmet Altan was imprisoned in Turkey with his brother Mehmet in September 2016. Despite being denied access to receiving and sending written communications, he wrote The Writer’s Paradox for publication on the eve of his trial, which starts on 19 September. We have been campaigning to raise awareness of Ahmet’s plight as part of our…
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This is how my imagination works, I suppose: mysteriously, the process of writing always begins with a place.
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Elena Varvello explores the idea of place as a multitude of characters in her writing.
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Andrew McMillan reads the poetry of Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian-born writer and artist imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for his work.
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As Cumhuriyet journalists await their verdict in Turkey, Can Bahadır Yüce pays tribute to his imprisoned colleagues and reflects on the link between populism and anti-intellectualism.
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Exclusive preview of the title poem, ‘If this is a lament’, from a new chapbook of work by Turkish poet Bejan Matur, translated by Jen Hadfield and Canan Marasligil.
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You become an estranged human being, which leads to a certain kind of solitude and loneliness.
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We speak to Danish writer Dorthe Nors about her latest novel Mirror, Shoulder, Signal and its themes of solitude and loneliness in modern urban society.
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