Members’ News

 

    • Livia Varju has four poems in the latest issue of Ex Tempore, the UN literary journal.  They are about peace, the environment, prison and freedom, respectively. She also has two poems in the Phoenix New Life Poetry Winter issue published by the Universal Alliance, entitled The One You Love and The Power of Poetry and can send the electronic version to anyone interested.

 

    • Lesley Lawson has been accepted as a member of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists (SWWJ). Her article about her dog, Vinnie, “One shelter dog down on his luck in Cyprus jet-sets off to a forever home in Switzerland” was published in August Dogs Today Magazine.

 

    • Jo Ann Hansen Rasch’s collection of poems, Transition, published by Editions du Madrier, Switzerland, was published in December 2011. For more information, please refer to her website www.joannrasch.com

 

    • Zeki Ergas’ last opinion piece in Global Marshall Plan Initiative’s Newsletter:
      Measuring the Quality of Life. Bhutan’s Global Happiness Index
      can be read in www.globalmarshallplan.org.

 

    • Joy Manné’s poem “Words Have Families Too” was published in The Knowing Field, International Constellations Journal, Issue 18, June 2011, P. 94.

 

    • Mary Scheurer will be published  in the new anthology from ‘Wordaid’ – a British organisation that produces work solely for charity.
      This collection is called ‘Not only the Dark’ and is in aid of Shelterbox, a group that helps the homeless.
      Other contributors include David Harsent, Alice Oswald and Penelope Shuttle.”

 

    • Emily Bilman’s poem “The Stags” was published in the October-November 2011 issue of London Magazine. Another poem, “The Pilgrimage” was published on the Princeton Alumni Weekly website.

 

    • Ellen Massey is happy to announce that an essay, “Inadvertently Green, the Budget Cruising Dividend,” has been published by Ocean Navigator in addition to her essay “Learning the Island Ways” about a visit in Polynesia.  They can be read online at http://www.oceannavigator.com

 

    • Peter St John Dawe has had a poem accepted by Forward Press for publication in an anthology of “School Secrets”. The poem is entitled “Warden’s Window”. A short story of Peter’s, entitled “Everyone has His, or Her, Price”, is shortly to be published by Gingernut Books, in an anthology of New Writers UK, called “Telling Tales”.

 

    • Iqbal Alimohamed has a recent opinion piece published in the Oriental Review.

 

    • Livia Varju has a 60-line poem, Ode to Freedom, in Rubies in the Darkness, July 2011 issue.

 

    • Kristine Greenaway has just been signed as a translator and playwright with CardenWright Literary Agency in London. The Swiss playwright whose work she translates, Emanuelle delle Piane, has also been signed.

 

 

 

 

    • Peter St John Dawe has just published an illustrated edition of his fifth book in the “Gang” series on Amazon Kindle. It is entitled ”Gang Petition”.

 

 

 

    • Susan Tiberghien had a fun op-ed published in the International Herald Tribune, July 8, titled Airport Chatter

 

    • Livia Varju had her translation of a poem written in French by Noumsi Bouopda, Martyred Woman, as well as her own poem, The Pursuit of Happiness, published in the Summer 2011 issue of Phoenix New Age Poetry.  She had a poem in 5th place and another in 6th place in the Rubies in the Darkness Spring Competition.  Well,  that’s not as good as 1st and 2nd place, but … another time!

 

    • Rod Abson I had an article published in the June 2011 issue of the India Today Travel Plus magazine about Trieste on the East coast of Italy. up at Huffington Post’s “My Daily”.

 

    • Sylvia Petter has an essay up at Huffington Post’s “My Daily”.

 

    • Anne Korkeakivi
      My debut novel, AN UNEXPECTED GUEST, will be published by Little, Brown (US) in the spring of 2012, and I have a short story appearing this month in The Brooklyn Review (June 2011).

 

    • D-L Nelson has been offered a contract by her publisher for Murder in Geneva. Her mystery Murder in Argelès is slated for a December release. The cover design has just been completed for MIA. MIG will be her seventh published novel.

 

 

    • Peter St John Dawe’s novel Triple Agent, based on the Gospel According to John, has just been published as a digital book by Amazon Kindle

 

    • Lucy Morgan Edwards has published a book, The Afghan Solution, that investigates the peace plan offered in 2001 by famed 1980s Resistance leader Commander Abdul Haq and the failure of western intelligence agencies to support it. This story is set as a cameo to the authors own experience of the early years of the war.

 

    • Peter St John Dawe has had a poem, entitled “Subliminal Farewell, or The Flight to Thule” published by Forward Poetry, in an anthology called “Speaking of Love”.

 

    • Patti M. Marxsen has just agreed to representation by the Paul Bresnick Literary Agency of New York for her 350-page novel set in twentieth-century Haiti. Cry of the Peacock is “… a rich, deep, beautifully written, comfy-chair of a novel,” said Bresnick.

 

    • Sylvia Petter´s story, “Riding the Killer Fish”, will appear in the forthcoming charity anthology, New Sun Rising – Stories for Japan. There is also an interview with Sylvia about her connection with the Humber School for Writers, Toronto, on Darcie Friesen Hossack´s blog.

 

    • Rod Abson had an article published on a 5-day itinerary in and around Seoul, South Korea in the May 2011 issue of India Today Travel Plus magazine. Rod appreciated the expert local knowledge of his wife, Luna, who is Korean.

 

    • Alan Harmer wrote a Review of a film Unsilenced, published in The Voice. This describes a landmark case in justice against disappearances.

 

    • Sylvia Petter´s submission to the 2nd International Conference on Creativity and Writing, held in Orivesi, Finland, in November 2010 is now in the digital archive at Jyväskylä University, Finland.

 

    • Minju Yen is a member of The Independent Chinese PEN Center (was once in the Writers in Prison Committee) and The Association of Chinese Writers in Europe which is going to celebrate its 20th anniversary in Athens 13. – 15. May 2011 and she will participate. She is also a standing columnist of Witness Monthly in Taipei. Her latest publication was an essay in The Shanghai Review of Books in March 2011.

 

 

 

    • Patti Marxsen‘s essay entitled “Archaeologies” has been published by Ashland Creek Press as a “Kindle Short” available on Amazon and/or directly from the publisher, here. The memoir-travel essay links archeological finds from Gaza observed in the exhibition at Geneva’s Musee d’Art et Histoire and the “shards” of family history lost in the wake of divorce.

 

    • Lesley Lawson’s story about her Cyprus poodle, “A foreign adoption” will be published in the July issue of the UK magazine Dogs Today. .

 

    • Peter St John Dawe has just published his first e-book Gang Petition on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing: It can be obtained here.

 

    • Zeki Ergas has had an essay, Freedom of Expression in an Age of Inequality, published on the Global Marshall Plan website. His essay can be read here.

 

    • Susan Tiberghien‘s essay, Living in Two Languages, appears in the Spring 2011 issue of the Del Sol Review. Click here to read.

       

    • M. Anita Bailey has had several of her poems published on the Speakeasy Website, which is part of the Milton Keynes (UK) community website – MKWeb.

       

    • Peter St John Dawe has been invited to give a demonstration and talk entitled “Binding Your Own Paperback”, on May 11, at the Lincoln Book Festival in the UK.

 

 

    • Mark Gartside‘s first novel, What will Survive, which was encouraged at the 2010 Geneva Writers’ Conference, will now be published by Macmillan in the Spring of 2012.