Contributing Editor Aamer Hussein participated in the Sixth Annual Lahore Literary Festival on 24 February, 2018 at the Alhamra Arts Center.
Communications Manager Alexander Dickow won a PEN/Heim grant for his translation of Sylvie Kandé’s Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos.
Drama Editor Caridad Svich published an article entitled Six Hundred and Ninety-Two Million: On Art, Ethics, and Activism on HowlRound. Her play, An Acorn, recently opened at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island.
Assistant Editor Erik Noonan will present a paper entitled “Human Cosmos” as part of the panel “Cosmopolitanisms From Below: Hybrids, Outsiders, Itinerants and the Dispossessed” at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, University of California, Los Angeles, 29 March – 1 April, 2018.
Blog Editor Sarah Booker has translated a story, “It Could Be Worse” by Colombian writer Margarita García Robayo, for Make Mag.
Editor-at-Large for Singapore Theophilus Kwek reviewed books by Cherian George and Teo You Yenn. He also participated in a panel on artificial intelligence on 23 February, 2018 at Singapore University of Technology & Design.
Editor-at-Large for Australia Tiffany Tsao will be conducting a workshop on the art of revising fiction. She will also be giving a reading at Kinokuniya’s main store in Singapore on Saturday 17 March, 2018 at 4pm.
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