A List: Global Readings for Poet Ashraf Fayadh, Sentenced to Death in Saudi Arabia

If you have an event to add, please email it in or append below. You can also contact the festival organizers through this website: www.worldwide-reading.com.

Austria

Organiser: Freies Radio Innsbruck

Basque Country

Organiser: Basque PEN
Venue: Euskal Herria, Agoitz Plaza 1, 48015 Bilbo

Bolivia    

Organiser: PEN Bolivia / Biyú Suárez C.
Venue: Santa Cruz

Bosnia Herzegovina

Organiser: PEN Bosnia Herzegovina

Croatia

Organiser: Croatia PEN
Venue: Zagreb

Denmark    

Organiser: Danish PEN / Mille Rode
Venue: Saudi-Arabian Embassy Copenhagen
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm

France    

Organiser: Maison des écrivains et de la littérature
Venue: Paris

Organiser: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Venue: Amicale Rooms of the Agora Building, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm

Germany    

Organiser: Agora – Gesellschaft für Literatur, Kunst und Kultur e.V.
Venue: Bad Oeynhausen

Organiser: Lenaugrundschule in Berlin-Kreuzberg / Katrin Schings
Venue: Bibliothek der Lenau-Grundschule in Kreuzberg
Time: 3 pm
Participants: Katrin Schings, Children 2nd to 4th grade

Organiser: network for international affairs (nefia e.V.)
Venue: Newsroom of ze.tt, Berlin
Website: www.nefia.org

Organiser: Lettrétage
Venue: Mehringdamm 61, 10961 Berlin
Participants: Nihad Sirees, Faten El-Dabbas
Website: www.lettretage.de 

Organiser: Europäisches Gymnasium Bertha von Suttner / Sibylle Seite
Venue: Reginhardstr. 172, 13409 Berlin
Time: 10 am
Participants: Sibylle Seite, Leistungskurs Deutsch 12
Website: www.bertha-von-suttner.de

Organiser: Schliemann-Grammar School Berlin / Christina Gruhle
Venue: Schliemann-Grammar School Berlin
Time: 8 am – 9:30 am

Organiser: Gemeinschaftsschule Campus Efeuweg / Alexandra Gebhardt
Venue: Gemeinschaftsschule Campus Efeuweg, Schulcafeteria, Berlin
Participants: refugees, pupils

Organiser: Indieberlin / Mia Morris

Organiser: internationales literaturfestival berlin
Venue: HAU Hebbel am Ufer 2 Berlin
Time: 7:30 pm
Website: www.hebbel-am-ufer.de

Organiser: Willy Brandt Schule / Marie Pohl
Venue: Willy Brandt Schule, Grüntaler Str. 5, 13357 Berlin
Participants: Marie Pohl, English Course

Organiser: Literaturhaus Villa Augustin
Venue: Literaturhaus Villa Augustin, Antonstr.1, 01097 Dresden
Time: 7 pm
Participants: Uta Hauthal
Additional Information: Followed by a concert of “Verschenkte Lieder” with Uta Hauthal
(Vocals) and Konrad Möhwald (Piano)

Organiser: Rotraut de Neve / YOP year of performance
Venue: Hamburg

Organiser: Writers’ Room Hamburg / Henry Holland
Venue: Writers’ Room Hamburg

Organiser: Marktkirche Hannover / Hanna Kreisel-Liebermann
Venue: Marktkirche Hannover

Organiser: International School Hannover Region / Jake Eagle
Venue: Bruchmeisterallee 6, 30169 Hannover
Participants: Jake Eagle, English Class K12 Students

Organiser: Sandra Burkhardt, Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig
Venue: Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig, Wächterstraße 34
Time: 6 pm

Organiser: Lektorat text-balance / Georg-D. Schaaf
Place: Münster

Organiser: Internationale Armin T. Wegner Gesellschaft e.V. und der Verband Deutscher SchriftstellerInnen, Sektion Bergisches Land / Ulrich Klan
Additional Information: Musical reading

Lebanon

Organiser: Jahida Wehbe

Mauritius

Organiser: Ledikasyon pu Travayer / Alain Ah-Vee
Place: Grand River North West, Port Louis
Time: 6 pm

Mexico    

Organiser: Magali Tercero
Venue: Casa Refugio, Casa Citlaltépetl 25, Col. Condesa, Ciudad de Mexico
Time: 7:30 pm

Netherlands    

Organiser: PEN Centre, James Tennant / Jennifer Clement / PEN Oxfam Novib Awards
Venue: Writers Unlimited festival The Hague
Participants: Jennifer Clement, Jung Chang

New Zealand  

Organiser: Courtney Sina Meredith
Venue: Auckland Central Library 44-46 Lorne St, Auckland
Time: 5:30 pm
Participants: Courtney Sina Meredith, Robert Sullivan

Norway

Organiser: Erling Kittelsen
Place: Oslo
Time: 15. January

Palestine    

Organiser: Qattan Foundation
Place: Ramallah

Portugal        

Organiser: PEN Portugal                 

Sweden

Organiser: Göteborg Literature House
Venue: Heurlins plats 1, Gothenburg
Time: 6 pm
Participants: Meira Ahmemulic, Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Jesper Brygger, Karin Brygger, Stewe Claeson, Åke Edwardson, Helena Eriksson, Linn Hansén, Gunnar D Hansson, Kennet Klemets, Jörgen Lind, Tetz Rooke, Jessica Schiefauer
Website: goteborgslitteraturhus.se/nyheter

Switzerland

Organiser: Literaturhaus Basel
Place: Basel

Organiser: index | Wort und Wirkung
Venue: Elisabethenstr. 14a 8004 Zürich
Time: 8 pm
Participants: u. A. Melanie Katz, Ulrike Ulrich, Annette Lory, Ahmad Alrayan

UK

Organiser: Lancaster Central Library
Place: Market Square, Lancaster, UK
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Participants: Jo Baker, Yvonne Battle-Felton, Carol Birch, Carole Coates, Andy Darby, Carys Davies, Paul Farley, Sarah Hymas, Pauline Keith, Angela Martin and Saleel Nurbhai

Organiser: Wales PEN Cymru
Venue: Welsh Parliament/ Assembly

Ukraine

Organiser: Ukrainian Literary Center
Place: Kiev

USA    

Organiser: Agnes Scott College / Waqas Khwaja
Venue: Agnes Scott College (Decatur, GA 30030) Frannie Auditorium, Campbell Hall
Time: 6 pm
Participants: Franklin Abbot, Funmi Akinfenwa, Calvin Burgamy, Alan Grostephan, Kai Issa, Latianna Nichols, Paige Sullivan, Marcus Taylor, Dan Veach, Ajay Vishwanathan, Waqas Khwaj

Organiser: PEN American Center / Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf
Place: New York

Organiser: Kelly Writers House
Venue: Kelly Writers House (at the University of Pennsylvania) 3805 Locust Walk
Time: 2 pm
Participants: Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, Ariel Resnikoff, among others
Website: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0116.php

Organiser: MFA Program, BSU
Venue: Boise State University, Boise, ID
Time: 2 pm
Participants: Pierre Joris, Martin Coreless-Smith among others