Route/Events
From the Adriatic and the Black Sea to the Bosporus, Word Express is taking literary creation across frontiers.
In October 2009, three separate groups set out simultaneously from Ljubljana, Bucharest and Sarajevo. At every stop, they were welcomed by local young writers and took part in readings and workshops. They explored the city and were joined by their hosts to board the train for the next stop, finally converging in Thessaloníki from where the three groups took the final train journey to Istanbul
In 2010, the Word Express writers will meet again at several festivals and workshops across Europe. Watch this space to read the latest and find out about readings and events in your area.
News
Transcript - the Macedonia Issue
Word Express writers Aleksandra Dimitrova, Elizabeta Bakovska and Jovica
Ivanovski feature in Literature Across Frontiers's trilingual review of
writing in translation.
Sha'ar International Poetry Festival
18th - 24th October 2010
poets
Netalie Braun (Israel),
Gokçenur Çelebioğlu (Turkey),
Ivan Hristov(Bulgaria),
Ana Ristovic (Serbia) and
Anat Zekharia (Israel) to collaborate and perform in Tel Aviv.
Found in Translation
"I'm happy you didn't take me for another germ"
Two poems by Karen Karslyan
"when bees burn they become soft like red velvet, brittle as the naked
pupils of blue eyes"
Poems by Vassilis Amanatidis