Travel through time, between generations, art disciplines and related artists/makers with: authors Annemarie Estor, Babeth Fonchie, Jens Meijen, Eva Meijer and Babah Tarawally and artists Mignon Nusteling, Jessica Bacuna, Rachel Sender, Fleur Kotten and Kenneth Aidoo.
Soon: 3rd episode podcast series The Asterisk Conversations with Simon(e) van Saarloos, Claudia Rankine and Rosabelle Illes!
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!
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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.
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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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.
Read more about Read the stories and poems written for the online Winternachten festival 2021
