The way to open a new poetry bookstore at a communal office, says the UK’s Second Home, is to hold a poetry festival on the premises. The company’s Holland Park facility is the venue in June.
Switzerland’s Jan Michalski Foundation Inaugurates ‘Bibliotopia’ Festival in May
Taking a cue from current events and many cultures’ experiences of displacement, the Jan Michalski Foundation focuses its debut literary festival ‘beyond borders.’
Four Festival Neue Literatur Writers on Belonging and Displacement
The 2018 Festival Neue Literatur just opened in New York City with German- and English-language writers and readers are coming together to debate this year’s theme of outsiders and insiders.
At Copenhagen’s Literary Festival Kbh Reads, Consumers See and Hear Editors at Work
Taking audiences behind the scenes of the editorial process, publishing house editors at the recent Kbh Reads festival showed how they handle their work—and an author’s.
Industry Notes: Children’s Publisher Changes Name; Estonian Literature Festival in London
After 20 years as Top That, the UK children’s publisher changes its name. And in the Baltics’ bid for April audiences, Estonia announces a literature festival to follow the London Book Fair.
MFest at the British Library: ‘Bringing Muslims and Non-Muslims Together’
Called MFest, a three-day program at the British Library in late April looks at the range, evocations, and implications of Muslim cultural diversity and literature at the British Library.
Literary Networking in Turkey: Apply for Istanbul’s Literature Festival Fellowship Program
A three-day program for international professionals in publishing, the Istanbul International Literature Festival runs May 2 through 6 this year, and has extended the deadline for applications.
The 2018 German-Language Festival Neue Literatur Focus: ‘Insider | Outsider’
‘Borders physical, ideological and aesthetic, and who is permitted to cross them’ are at issue in this year’s three-day festival of events, March 23 through 25, in German-language literature in New York.
Wales’ International Hay Festival Fellow Named for 2018-2019
The Hay Festival events in Colombia, Peru, Spain, Mexico and Wales are part of the package won each year by a single practitioner in writing. Its the Hay Festival International Fellowship.
Hay Festival Opens Early Bird Access to Public for 2018 Events in Wales
Margaret Atwood, Philip Pullman, Bridget Christie and those surprise ‘Letters Live’ performers are among personalities set for the Hay Festival 31st season special events in Wales, with early bird tickets going on sale to the public today (January 16).