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• Spot on Young Poets - poems by teenagers in lockdown

  

  Writers Unlimited has asked eight young people to write a poem about the theme of the 26th Winternachten Festival: "It's up to us". All previously participated in the Spot on Young Poets program for high school students in The Hague and reached the final of the Jonge Campert prize. Watch their video poems now in the Slow Winternachten festival.

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• Nalo Hopkinson, Pamela Sneed and Simon(e) van Saarloos in The Asterisk Conversations*

  

  In the new Writers Unlimited podcast, philosopher and writer Simon(e) van Saarloos invites the New York-based poet, performer and visual artist Pamela Sneed and internationally-beloved storyteller and Professor of Creative Writing Nalo Hopkinson for an Asterisk conversation – "een sterretjesgesprek".
  "A refreshing view on our world at the moment and a refreshing view on literature. To me the right questions are being asked to the right people." says poet and audio editor Jörgen Gario Unom.

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• Looking back on a succesful online Winternachten festival

  

  The Writers Unlimited Foundation looks back on a successful first online edition of the Winternachten festival. When in November 2020 it became clear that the theaters would be closed to the public during our festival period due to corona measures, in a few weeks the intended plans were changed and an online festival edition was made.

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• Read the stories and poems written for the online Winternachten festival 2021

  

  For the five programmes of the online Winternachten international literature festival The Hague 2021 writers and poets from abroad and from the Netherlands wrote new stories, essays or poems. On our request, the authors took their inspiration from the theme of the programmes. Read the contributions by among others Arnon Grunberg, Salena Godden, Leena Norms, Sanam Sheriff, Mithu Sanyal, Sulaiman Addonia, Annemarie Estor and Amahl Raphael Khoury.

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• Choreography and dance performance by Gil Gomes Leal in 'Radical Happiness'

  

  On invitation by Writers Unlimited dancer Gil Gomes Leal aka Gil The Grid presented new work inspired by Black Joy by Koleka Putuma. His performance saw its premiere in the programme #SoulCare: Radical Happiness!

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