Enjoy the online program with Babeth Fonchie, Eva Meijer, Fleur Kotten and Jessica Bacuna and get your own copy at bookstore De Vries Van Stockum in Den Haag.
Now online: a third episode of The Asterisk Conversations* with esteemed poet, playwright, essayist and award winning author Claudia Rankine ('Just Us: An American Conversation', 'Citizen: An American Lyric'). Enjoy the latest podcast by philosopher and author Simon(e) van Saarloos. Now available in your fav podcast app and our site.
Read more about Claudia Rankine in The Asterisk Conversations* III
For our (online) programme Erfstukken (Inheritance) and its print publication we filmed conversations with and readings by writers Eva Meijer and Babeth Fonchie, and illustrators Fleur Kotten and Jessica Bacuna at bookstore De Vries Van Stockum in Den Haag. View the readings of their moving letters addressed at other generations here.
Read more about Inheritance at bookstore De Vries Van Stockum
On March 20th of this year, the Turkish president Erdoğan left the Istanbul Convention, the treaty to protect women and LGBTQI+ persons against domestic and sexual violence, without involvement of the parliament. Writers collective Fixdit and Writers Unlimited jointly wrote a pressing letter to Mark Rutte, Sigrid Kaag and Stef Blok with the urgent appeal to do everything in their power to prevent Turkey from neglecting the fight against violence and to remind President Erdoğan of his obligations to promote violence against women.
Read more about Pressing letter Istanbul Convention to Mark Rutte, Sigrid Kaag and Stef Blok by authors
View, listen or read now all of the Winternachten festival 2021 in our Slow Edition. The programmes live streamed in January are 24/7 available for free and on demand viewing, here on the Writers Unlimited website. Welcome at the Slow Winternachten Festival 2021!
Read more about Slow Winternachten Festival: available for free viewing now
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.
Read more about Spot on Young Poets - poems by teenagers in lockdown
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.
