Sunday Submissions: Full Stop Fellows Program
Those interested in applying will need to send a short bio, a non-academic writing sample, and a brief description of their project before May 19, 2019.
Poetry
Friday Finds: Zrika’s ‘Sun Tearing the Page’s Flesh’
The second, “Mice in the Wardrobe of Solitude,” closes with a gorgeous, terrifying image of the world as a refrigerator, which, when opened, gives off nothing: “but the odor / of the white / rotted by the ice.”
3 for ‘Poem in Your Pocket Day’ 2019
Each poem I read
a jewel
looted from the world.
On 209 Submissions for 2019 AlMultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story
According to organizers, 209 eligible collections were submitted to the prize, with the most (80) coming from Egypt.
Protecting Recollections in ‘The Memory Factory’
“Arab and Western readers are different in what they’re cautious about in the book. Arabs have been anxious about how the book talks about the girl’s sexual identity, alongside her social and political identity, while Westerners have been anxious about how war and suffering might affect young readers.”
Sunday Submissions: PEN/Heim Translation Grants
They note that “about 20 percent of the published PEN/Heim Translation Fund projects have won or been shortlisted for major literary awards.”
Amal Al Banna’s ‘The Drowned’
“His stench has reached my palace,” the king said with disgust. “Why have you still not buried him?”
Wajdi al-Ahdal on ‘The First Ever Yemeni Theatre Production in the UK’
“The novel has an open end and complex allusions, which in my opinion gives more freedom to the dramaturge when writing the script.”
Jabbour Douaihy on ‘The King of India’
“The title doesn’t reflect the contents of the novel. I choose a title at random. There is no India in the novel, and no king.”