Biography Nancy Hanway’s short fiction and creative non-fiction has been published in The Florida Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Willow Review, WomenArts Quarterly, Washington Square Review, and in many other journals in the U.S. and internationally. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a finalist for the McKnight Fellowship in Creative Prose. She has...
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Timo Malmi in Jiwar. Finnish writer.
Timo Malmi (1948) has published poems, prose, novels, scientific articles and non-fiction books. Love, yearning and war are themes that connect Malmi’s multifaceted work. His love poem collection Tuulensuu, minä rakastan sinua, was published in 2014 to honour the women who were killed in 1918 defending their city of Tampere in the Finnish Civil War....
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Che Yeun. Korean writer.
Che Yeun is a fiction writer from Seoul, Korea. “You hate Jun’s car, a cheap Korean imitation of a European masterpiece. But you see the envelope in his front shirt pocket. The same plain white envelope he gives you every time, the one full of green 10,000-won bills folded in half. You politely keep your...
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Writing in Barcelona. Literary talk by Erin Hobey
Writing in Barcelona. Personal look from the US Cafè dAlicia (C/ Entença 176) Tuesday 15th March, 18.30h Erin Hobey, US artist in residence at Jiwar, suggests us to go deep into the literary history of Barcelona and the writers who used it as a scenary for their novels, as well as talking about...
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First collaboration with Catalan PEN. Abazar Hamid, musician & writer (Sudan)
JIWAR WILL EMBRACE IN RESIDENCY THE SUDANESE MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER ABAZAR HAMID IN COLLABORATION WITH PEN CATALÀ. During some days Jiwar will embrace Abazar Hamid in the framework of a first collaboration with PEN Català. That way, PEN wanted to invite to our city a writer at risk already embraced in another european city, make...
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Artist in residence: Erin Hobey (writer, USA)
Erin Hobey (writer, USA) A graduate of Brown University and Dartmouth College, Erin Hobey was a Robert Bosch fellow in eastern Germany and later taught college-level literature and writing in Boston and New York. Erin writes about the global crowdfunding industry for Crowdfund Insider and was named one of “Top 19 Crowdfunding Experts...
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Artist in residence: Kase Johnstun (writer, USA)
Kase Johnstun (writer, USA) Kase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. He is the author of recently released “Beyond the Grip Craniosynostosis” (McFarland & Co), which has been featured in Pennsylvania Parenting Magazine, Portland Family Magazine, The Ogden Standard Examiner, and many other places, as well as having mentions in the Chicago...
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Gürçim Yilmaz, writer in residence
Gürçim Yilmaz, writer (Turkey) Born in Hannover, grew up in Ankara, Gürçim Yılmaz lives and writes in Istanbul. She completed her degree on Communications and her MA on Media & Cultural Studies.She has worked for national newspapers, TV channels, publishing companies as a journalist, communications expert, editor, translator and writer. Her articles and fictional stories...
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Malena Amaranta Negrao, writer
Malena Amaranta Negrao is a Brazilian/American writer from New York City. Her work is in non-fiction, personal essays, journalism, and arts and culture critique. Concentrating on a dual career path, she is also currently completing a master’s degree in Arts and Cultural Management at Pratt Institute. Negrao, who holds an undergraduate degree in film studies,...
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New resident: Becky Blake, writer (Canada)
In addition to writing fiction, Becky Blake has worked as a journalist, an advice columnist, a script consultant and a playwright. Her stories and articles have appeared in publications such as Taddle Creek, Room, Kiss Machine, The Coast, DailyXY, enRoute and NOW Magazine. Becky was the 2012-13 winner of the CBC Short Story Prize. She...
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