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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Sydney PEN at the Sydney Writers' Festival!

Sydney PEN and its Young Writers Committee will be participating in a number of Sydney Writers' Festival events this year. Please join us for these exciting discussions!

1. Freedom to Write: The PEN Panel

Sunday June 3 2007, 11.30am - 1pm, SDC 4. Panellists include Eliot Weinberger, Bei Ling, Adib Khan, Rawi Hage and Sydney PEN President Angela Bowne SC.

2. Interface, Vibewire's annual magazine anthology, Launch

Thursday May 31, 2007, 7pm - 9pm, Bangarra Mezzanine
Featuring Interface contributors including Sydney PEN Young Writers Committee member, Hugo Bowne-Anderson.

3. Interface: Fresh Voices, New Ideas

Sunday, June 3, 2007, 11.30am - 1pm, SDC 1
Interface contributors discuss their work and the process of developing a piece for publication. Panel includes Sydney PEN Young Writers Committee member, Hugo Bowne-Anderson.

More Information:

1. The Freedom to Write: The PEN Panel
Sunday June 3 2007, 11.30am - 1pm, SDC 4

Eliot Weinberger's essays represent an important dissenting voice of critical insight into American politics. Bei Ling was imprisoned for publishing his journal in China. Adib Khan consistently embraces intellectual freedom without trepidation in his novels, as does Lebanese-Canadian writer and artist Rawi Hage. They discuss freedom of expression with Angela Bowne, President of Sydney PEN. Sydney PEN is a centre of International PEN that campaigns on behalf of writers around the world persecuted for the expression of their thoughts.

2. Interface, Vibewire's annual magazine anthology, Launch
Thursday May 31, 2007, 7pm - 9pm, Bangarra Mezzanine

Interface, Vibewire's annual magazine anthology, is about bringing promising young writers and thinkers together with their more experienced peers to create essays, feature articles and opinion pieces on social, political and cultural issues that provoke, engage and amuse the reader.Hugo appearing and his essay on the art of sedition.

3. Interface: Fresh Voices, New Ideas
Sunday, June 3, 2007, 11.30am - 1pm, SDC 1

Vibewire's Interface is an anthology of the most exciting new work by non-fiction writers aged 30 years and under. Contributors Amy Corderoy, Nicholas Carah, Scott Hickie, Fiona Wright and Hugo Bowne-Anderson talk about their stories and the process of developing a seed idea for publication with Triple J News presenter Meredith Griffiths.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson is a contributor to Vibewire's Interface anthology. He is a writer and mathematician, currently completing a PhD in Pure Mathematics at UNSW; he also teaches there. He has written numerous plays (produced at the Edge and Cellar Theatres), short and not-so-short, essays and short fiction. He is also a member of the Sydney PEN Centre Young Writers' Committee.

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