December 2007 –
Greeting Cards for Imprisoned Writers
Every year, International PEN issues a list of writers in prison or their families, with addresses, so that members across the world can share in offering support to those writers and their families who have suffered through imprisonment, persecution or murder .
Adelaide PEN celebrated this at the end of 2007 after our final meeting for the year with a BYO dinner and drinks and collective card writing session . Cards and most postage were donated and we covered nearly everyone on the attached list – some cards were written in French where appropriate, and Vietnamese . If you would like to know more about the writers on the list, you will find details in the November 2007 Greeting cards address list. [PDF, 50K]
December 2007 –
Adelaide PEN in Session
In association with Flinders University International Conference: Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities cipro.
Wet Ink Editor and Adelaide PEN Treasurer Dominique Wilson held an indepth conversation with Juan Garrido-Salgado, a poet and displaced writer from Chile, followed by select readings from the work of other displaced writers and writers in exile by members Heather Taylor-Johnson and Rachel Hennessy tadacip.
And we thank new Adelaide PEN member Gay Lynch of Flinders University for inviting PEN to a session at this international conference.
November 2007 - Denied a Voice
This year, Denied a Voice was dedicated both to Hrant Dink, the Armanian editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Agos - who was assasinated in January 2007, and imprisoned Catholic priest Father Nguyen Van Ly of Vietnam, co-editor of the online magazine Tu do Ngôn luan (Free Speech)]. It was a day of music, poetry, readings and talks. The Master of Ceremonies was the writer and editor Dominique Wilson, with speeches and readings from the author Nicholas Jose, ABC news presenter Dominique Schwartz, lecturer Chika Anyanwu, Nobel Laureate J M Coetzee, Mark Parnell MLC, author Dylan Coleman, writer and poet Jamal Amin and the author Sean Williams. Music was provided by Dave Clarke of the Singing Gallery and Sam Oshodi on drums.
Read Nobel Laureate J M Cotezee's keynote address. [PDF, 30K]
Sean Williams presentation can be read at adnews.livejournal.com
March 2007 – WORD! Adelaide Festival Fringe
The inaugural WORD! event created a literary space in the Fringe Festival which was previously dominated by the performing arts. As part of this exciting innovation, the Adelaide PEN panel organized by Stephanie Hester was first up on each of the three nights of the event in the Fringe Factory Theatre on Mellor Street in Adelaide.
Writer and Managing Editor of Wet Ink, Dominique Wilson chaired the panel with contributors including Poets Yahia a-Samawy, Bel Schenk and Juan Garrido-Salgado and authors Eva Sallis, Nicholas Jose, Fabienne Bayet-Charlton and Peter Goldsworthy as well as Adelaide academic, Chika Anyanwu. Our keynote speaker was author and President of Melbourne PEN, Arnold Zable.
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