NEW NEWS!
From ABR (AustralianBook Review): In Issue #6, we featured a review of Beyrouz Boochani's book, No Friend but the Mountains, as translated by Omid Tofighian, himself featured in ABR's August issue in an article about the politics of naming. The BeyrouzBoochani Fellowship, is open to English language writers, Australian or not, and is worth $10,000.
And, as per our Issue #8 colophon, 
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As noted our introduction to Issue# 5, many kudos, congrats, and clapping of hands! Issue 4 InSight contributor Bill Hayward's feature film, Asphalt, Muscle & Bone, was selected for the 2018 Amsterdam International Filmmaker Festival. Post the several awards, he has received the festival's award for Best Cinematography in a Feature Film—see the clip accessed under "FILM" in Issue #7.
We have just received word that fellow writer and poet, Mel Kenne, has recently published three poems in Gris=Gris, a literary journal out of Nicholls University in Louisiana. See https://www.nicholls.edu/gris-gris/ Sam Farhi, who curated the "Mild Party" pocket anthology in Wall 4, features highlights of his work in film and fiction writing at www.samfarhi.com. Turkish Poetry Today can be found at https://www.redhandbooks.co.uk/turkish-poetry-today/ We have listed PEN International below for its work with writers in prison and at risk. In this increasingly vicious atmosphere we also wish to call your attention to ICORN, International Cities of Refuge Network, which helps writers in exile. Oral Tradition Journal, Issue 32, examines Naxi script from southwest China, on Serbian Fairie Stories received in a trance state, on Oral Features of the Qu'ran... Here's the link: http://journal.oraltradition.org/ Talisman: a Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics can be found at https://www.talismanmag.net/ Los Bárbaros, www.losbarbarosny.com is a revista, also a print publication, a Spanish language review published out of New York City and Madrid. This links to NYC, but is in Spanish. Poéta Miriam Palma Ceballos' blog: http://estoesunblogesunblogesunblog.blogspot.com.es/ JALADA is an online journal of translation featured work from African writers translated into quite a few languages. An audio reading in several languages is also included. See https://jaladaafrica.org. "The Upright Revolution: Or Why Human Beings Walk Upright," rendered in audio, as well as author, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's, mother tongue, Kikuyu: https://jaladaafrica.org/2016/03/22/jalada-translation-issue-01-ngugi-wa-thiongo/. Stateside literary translators par excellence: ALTA, the American Literary Translators Association at http://www.literarytranslators.org/ Readers and writers and their friends, who are concerned about challenges to the First Amendment rights of free speech that affect novelists, poets, and other writers in the US, may want to visit P.E.N. America's special site, Defending Free Expression. For issues of freedom of expression, writers in prison and writers at risk, internationally, see PEN International (English.) En Español, En Française. Steve Dodson's blog/site which deals with several languages. Dodson, himself, speaks/reads something like 6 - 8 languages, with a few more in his back pocket in case they need to be revived: http://languagehat.com/ Tupelo Quarterly, an online literary magazine, has an ongoing book review section and invites cross genre work as well as poetry and prose. Kristina Marie Darling is Editor in Chief; its founder is Jeffrey Levine of Tupelo Press. We've been in love with these folks for a long, long time: Words without Borders. Another outstanding online journal dedicated to translations from around the world is Asymptote. Denise Milstein, has been involved in a project focussed on Tierra del Fuego, brings readers' attention to that special environment: http://ensayostierradelfuego.net/ In Spanish and English. The Nesin Foundation, on the outskirts of Istanbul, is a residential community dedicated to providing orphaned and indigent children with everything they need; the Turkish Philanthropy Funds page has a short description and a donation portal: http://www.tpfund.org/my-tpf/nesin/ For an invaluable and creative take to renew your writing process, see writer Anya Achtenberg's The Disobedient Writer at https://thedisobedientwriter.com/ |