Join us on 6th June for an evening of poetry, discussion, and solidarity with Palestine!
All SBWN events will adhere to our Safer Spaces Policy. You can learn more about our policy here.
Both the in-person and online sessions are open to Black writers & writers of colour* and to white/non-BPOC writers and attendees. The online session is open to attendees based anywhere in the world (not limited to Scotland).
Join us for an evening of poetry reading and a conversation with Palestinian-American poet, Fady Joudah. Fady will read from his poetry, and talk about writing and being Palestinian in a time of genocide. The conversation will be chaired by Palestinian-Italian writer, Sabrin Hasbun.
The conversation will be followed by Q&A.
All profits will go to charities and grassroots organisations that support Palestine (including MAP, HIRN, PSC, Bristol’s Palestine Museum).
The event will be live-streamed and recorded so if you are not able to attend physically there is an option for an online ticket. The link to the zoom call will be sent out a few hours before the event starts.
Fady’s poetry collection, […], and Sabrin Hasbun’s book, Crossing, will be available for purchase at the event venue.
Tickets are £10 (£5 for students) for the in-person event, and £5 for the online event.
For more information go to awraqfestival.com.
Speakers
Fady Joudah is the author of […]. He has also published five other collections of poems, including Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. He lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife and children, where he works as a physician in internal medicine.
Sabrin Hasbun is a Palestinian-Italian transnational writer. She has recently worked as writer, editor, translator, and trainer for several institutions around the world and published articles, both individual and collaborative, about collective creation in communities. She now works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff Met University, specialising in writing for liberated imaginations and alternative futures. Crossing, Sabrin’s recently published family memoir about displacement told through the love shared between her Italian mother and Palestinian father, was awarded the Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize.