Dear Colleagues
You might wish to point out details of the creative writing competition to interested students. There is an over 18s category and students of German/ German students are warmly invited to enter pieces of creative writing in either English or German.
The 'Two Chairs Creative Writing Competition' invites creative written responses to the Hafis-Goethe Denkmal in Weimar. The sculpture, depicting two chairs, embodies issues of inter-cultural encounter and communication, both from the point of view of 'cultural specificity' and also by exploring the possibility of non-binary relationships between faiths, communities and cultures in the widest sense. Entrants are invited to respond in personal, creative terms to these ideas (ideally not using theoretical jargon such as mine!). Entries may be prose or in verse, and in English or in German. The monument itself might be a more literal, visual starting point to think about, though pieces can also be drawn from lived experience or be entirely imaginative, also - as long as they reflect and engage with the competition's main themes. Further details are to be found here:
https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/research/german/impact/transnational_islam/twochairsexchange/creative_writing
Our esteemed panel of judges includes poet Ian McMillan, Prof. Karen Leeder (Oxford), and up-and-coming UK poets Hanan Issa and Momtaza Mehri. Winners will receive a £250 cash prize each, and an invitation to performance and writing workshop with McMillan, Issa and Mehri in Oxford, May 2018.
Please feel free to contact me with any queries.
best wishes
James Hodkinson.
Warwick University.
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