Please see the Literature News for all recent and upcoming events.
'Postmodernism': Video conferences between Goldsmiths and Palestine
The British Council in Palestine is running a literature-focussed programme in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London, and Palestinian universities on the topic of Postmodernism. The meetings will take place in the form of video conferences; there will be one meeting per month for two hours, from September 2007 to April or May 2008.
New Writing
The British Council's annual anthology of the most exciting contemporary UK and Commonwealth writing including previously unpublished poetry, short stories, extracts from novels and non-fiction pieces. It is accompanied by a website for readers and teachers all over the world featuring selected texts. Texts are available online alongside teachers' pages, readers' notes, interviews and glossaries. New Writing 15, edited by Bernardine Evaristo and Maggie Gee, was published by Granta in June 2007.
Reading Groups
Discuss books with other readers from around the world via our global reading groups. Find out more.
ELT e-Reading Group
This is an Online Reading Group open to English Language Teachers from all over the world who want to engage in a dialogue and discussion about short stories and poems in English. Texts are chosen from online sources created and/or supported by the British Council and participants are invited to post their comments to the discussion board on the British Council enCompassculture website.
Power in the Voice
Residencies by performance poets, creative writing workshops, rap/performance poetry competitions in schools, Voice Fairs, book exhibitions, production of DVDs, radio and TV performances.
East Asia Performance poetry workshops and performances with Apples and Snakes
Poet Roger Robinson and Francesca Beard visited Vietnam and the Philippines in 2007. Poet Aoife Mannix also visited Thailand and Taiwan in February 2007.
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