A brand new lit competition set for subsequent March is in search of assist.
Palestine Writes Again guarantees to be the primary main fest “devoted to the celebration and assist of Palestinian literature in america.” To this finish, organizers hope to lift $150,000. Eventually look, they’d secured simply over $38,000 to assist three days of movies, talks, readings, and music.
Pageant organizers have launched a schedule filled with acclaimed and award-winning writers. Among the many individuals are Palestinian graphic novelists Leila Abdulrazzaq and Marguerite Dabaie; novelists Huzama Habayeb, Adania Shibli, and Ibrahim Nasrallah; and memoirist Raja Shehadeh. This system additionally options poets, youngsters’s guide authors, and publishers.
A number of of the authors have books forthcoming in English translation. Huzama Habayeb’s Velvet, tr. Kay Heikkenen, is obtainable in September 2019. Adania Shibli’s Minor Element, tr. Elisabeth Jaquette, shall be out in early 2020. Additionally, Susan Muaddi Darraj’s new youngsters’s guide sequence, Farah Rocks, shall be out in 2020.
The competition may also be headlined by tutorial and civil rights icon Angela Davis.
The placement has not but been introduced, however the fest is about to happen someplace in NYC between March 27 and 29, 2020. The competition guarantees to be a “groundbreaking celebration of the facility of Palestinian creative visionaries and their supporters.” They hope to carry collectively authors and audiences within the spirit of poet Mahmoud Darwish, who wrote that we “have the appropriate to odor autumn’s fragrances and ask the night time for a dream.”
You will discover out extra and register for a spot at palestinewrites.com.
