Events, Festivals and Opportunities
For information on more events and opportunities to meet ICORN writers, please see our Shahrazad website.
Iowa Writer's Program 2013
April 2013
Writers can now apply to participate in the Iowa Writer’s Program (IWP) that brings together a wide range of international and U.S. writers at the University of Iowa. The application deadline is April 7. 2013.
Video art featuring ICORN guest writers
December 2012
Manal Al-Sheikh, Safaa Alwan and Mansur Rajih are featured in a video art project entitled "Between". It is currently shown as part of the Rencontres Internationales festivale in Paris, France.
Just a tiny piece of Freedom: ICORN event & workshop in New York City
October 2012
Together with PEN American Center and Scandinavia House, ICORN and the EU Culture 2007 project Shahrazad - stories for life, organises a public event on Monday 22 October at 7pm in the Scandinavia House in New York. The event will present the US premiere of Marion Stalens's film documentary Silence or Exile; while distinguished writers Anna Funder and Yu Jie will speak related to the evening's theme.
Earlier Articles
- Courage - Conference on Freedom of Expression in Bergen 22 - 23 Oct 2012 - October 2012
- David Grossman and Boualem Sansal Launches Writers appeal for peace - October 2012
- ICORN at the Frankfurt Book Fair 10 -14 October - October 2012
- ICORN at the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg - October 2012
- Artists' mobility and visas: share your story! - October 2012
- Your City - A City of Refuge? - September 2012
- Dubravka Ugresic to hold the 2012 ICORN Lecture at the Kapittel 12 festival - September 2012
- Kofi Annan awards first International Cartoonists Prize to four Iranian artists - June 2012
- ICORN writer at intercultural art seminar at the Karen Blixen Museum - June 2012
- TRIBUNAL 12: The verdict - May 2012
- ICORN encouraged and empowered forward after successful Stockholm assembly - May 2012
- World Premiere of Marion Stalens' 'Silence or Exile' during ICORN Assembly in Stockholm - May 2012
- ICORN Goes to Stockholm - May 2012
- ICORN co-hosts meeting with Nordic ministers of foreign affairs on the Arab Spring - April 2012
- ICORN Upcoming General Assembly to be held in Stockholm, 9-11 May - February 2012
- ICORN and Shahrazad at the Fabula 2012 Festival, Ljubljana - February 2012
- TRIBUNAL 12 presents the jury. - February 2012
- Stavanger Guest Writer to Perform at Opening Night of Nobel Peace Center's 'In Afghanistan' Exhibition - February 2012
- Uppsala announces Spring 2012 Literary Programme - January 2012
- 'Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism': ICORN at the Centre for Humanities, University of Utrecht - January 2012
- Parvin Ardalan features at 'Talk with Iran' in Malmö, 17 December - December 2011
- ICORN Guest Writer Andrei Nekrasov releases major film documentary 'Farewell, Comrades!' - November 2011
- Palma Guest Writer Rhodah Mashavave talks with schoolchildren in Ibiza - November 2011
- 'Imprisoned Words' Panel Discussion at Malmö Museum - November 2011
- Chenjerai Hove launches new book at Miami Book Fair International - October 2011
- Anisur Rahman leading a series of workshops at Uppsala City Library - October 2011
- Future opportunities for persecuted writers - October 2011
- ICORN at the Frankfurt Book Fair 12- 16 October 2011 - October 2011
- Philo Ikonya, Anisur Rahman Featured at the Nordic Black Theatre International Poetry Festival, 27 September 2011 - September 2011
- Defiance! - September 2011
- Creative Writing Workshops with Anisur Rahman - September 2011
- Authors on the run - September 2011
- Parvin Ardalan co-writes new theatre play - August 2011
- Swedish PEN launches new Dissident Blog - July 2011
- Freedom of expression event in Fredriksberg. - June 2011
- Tribunal 12 - June 2011
- Apply now for the Freedom to Create Prize. - June 2011
- Guest Writers at Hay Festival - May 2011
- ICORN Guest Writers at Salon du Livre in Paris - March 2011
- Call for applications: Brown University IWP Fellowship - January 2011
- ICORN Network meeting in Brussels March 2011 - December 2010
- Nelson Mandela Forum 2010 in Florence - December 2010
- ICORN member region Tuscany gathers 8-9000 teens for freedom of expression - December 2010
- Chenjerai Hove at The Global Africa Project (Miami, Florida) tonight - December 2010
- ICORN Guest Writer Asieh Amini takes part in observing the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women - November 2010
- Uppsala Literary Workshops result in Anthology - November 2010
- The Brown International Writers Project is seeking Nominations - November 2010
- 'The International Protection of Refugees' - Introductory course coming up in December - November 2010
- The Marc de Montalembert Foundation Offers a EUR 7000 Grant - November 2010
- ICORN Guest Writer Seedy Bojang Discusses Freedom of Expression in Frederiksberg - November 2010
- Soudabeh Alishahi participates in 'Films from the South' - October 2010
- Guest Writers at the Gothenburg Bookfair - September 2010
- Shahrazad and ICORN goes to Tokyo - September 2010
- Guest Writer Chenjerai Hove kicks off Banned Books Week in Miami - September 2010
- ICORN at Kapittel 10 - September 2010
- ICORN participates in WALTIC - August 2010
- The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition open for submissions - June 2010
- The Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition open for entries - June 2010
- My Dictator and I - June 2010
- IPN announces Ninth Annual Bastiat Prize Competition - June 2010
- Coming up: ICORN General Assembly in Frankfurt - May 2010
- Guest Writer's Creative Writing Workshop in Uppsala results in Literary Festival - May 2010
- The Manchester Poetry Prize opens for submissions - April 2010
- ICORN Guest Writers Celebrate World Poetry Day - March 2010
- International PEN WiPC Caselist July-December 2009 Now Available - March 2010
- Freemuse Celebrates Music Freedom Day 2010 - March 2010
- 'Translated Days' in Oslo 11-13 March - March 2010
- Cartoonists Rights Network International Opens its First Local Chapter - February 2010
- Poetry Reading with Anisur Rahman in Uppsala - February 2010
- ICORN Guest Writer takes part in planning South African Film Days in Lillehammer - February 2010
- Uppsala Guest Writer Hosts Creative Writing/Literary Workshops - January 2010
- ICORN Guest Writer Safaa Alwan Opens 'Basrah - The Way I Saw It' - January 2010
- ICORN Launch in London January 7 - December 2009
- Call for applications and nominations: Guest Writer’s Grant at the Nordic Africa Institute - November 2009
- One World Human Rights International Documentary Film Festival: Call for Proposals - November 2009
- Call for Brown University IWP Applications / Nominations - October 2009
- Call for Nominations for Hellman/Hammett Grants - October 2009
- Call for Nominations for Daniel Pearl Awards - October 2009
- ICORN Director Discusses Exiled Writer Networks at the Frankfurt Book Fair - October 2009
- The University of Manitoba is searching for a Writer- or Storyteller-In-Residence - October 2009
- ICORN Writers at the Gothenburg Book Fair - September 2009
- ICORN Guest Writers perform at Stavanger International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Expression: Kapittel - September 2009
- ICORN guest writers performing at Pittsburgh Jazz & Poetry Concert - September 2009
- 2009 BASTIAT PRIZE COMPETITION - May 2009
- ICORN writers meet Norwegian writers at the House of Literature in Oslo - May 2009
- Norwegian Cities of Refuge participate in Marketplace of Ideas - May 2009
- ICORN at Kosmopolis International Literature Fest in Barcelona - October 2008
- ICORN and Shahrazad at the Frankfurt Book Fair - October 2008
- Nominations Wanted for Hellman/Hammett Grants - October 2008
- ICORN and Shahrazad at Gøteborg Book Fair - September 2008
- ICORN at Stavanger International Festival of Literature Kapittel 08 - September 2008
- Freedom of Speech at Amsterdam World Book Capital - August 2008
- The ArtVenture Freedom to Create Prize - July 2008
- Dangerous Words at Nobel Peace Center, Oslo - April 2008
- Day for Imprisoned Writers - November 2007
- Writing Without Fear: Freedom of Expression - November 2007
- ICORN at the Frankfurt Book Fair - October 2007
- ICORN Guest Writer Hove in Uppsala - December 2006
- ICORN Book Launch: Easterine Kire Iralu - November 2006
- November 15, Day of the Imprisoned Writer - November 2006
- Kapittel 06 - October 2006
- 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair - October 2006
- 2006 Göteborg International Book Fair - October 2006
- 2006 Edinburgh International Book Festival - August 2006