Outcomes
The immediate outcomes of this project will be
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a new network of organisations, magazines, publishers engaged in on-going exchange
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a published translations of the work by young authors from the region in regional languages and English
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a final meeting, a series of events in Istanbul in 2010 and the launch of a publication
Wordexpress hopes to give writers the chance to further imaginative horizons, reach new audiences, create new translations and publications, but - more than anything - learn from and about each other.
News
Word Express in Scotland
9th - 15th August
See a new generation of talented poets and translators Raman Mundair,
Ryan van Wynkle, Marko Pogačar,
Found in Translation
"I’ve got this sickly taste in my mouth... "
an extract and video from Sian Melangell Dafydd's
The Third Thing
"Sitting up on the bed, you strain and plunge like a frogman among
wobbegong dorsal fins."
three poems from Radu Vancu