Announcing: Past Exiled Writers-in-Residence Return to Pittsburgh

CITY OF ASYLUM @ ALPHABET CITY PRESENTS EXILED VOICES A Reunion Reading by City of Asylum's Former Exiled Writers-in-Residence  Saturday, October 19 @ 3:00 PM FREE! City of Asylum @ Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue     Celebrate 15 years of sanctuary with a reading from City of Asylum's former Writers-in-Residence! Dear Friend, Our 15th anniversary celebration begins with a special reunion reading by five former City of Asylum Exiled Writers-in-Residence: Huang Xiang (China), Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador), Khet Mar (Burma), Israel Centeno (Venezuela), and Yaghoub Yadali (Iran). When a group of us got together to start City of Asylum, we had no idea that a program providing sanctuary to endangered, exiled writers would resonate so deeply. We discovered that our neighborhood--and now Pittsburgh--would be be transformed. This marks the first time in years that all of our former writers will be together in the same space. What better way to begin our fifteenth year? This reading is a great chance for you to reconnect with the writers and reflect on what we have accomplished together. All are welcome. We hope to see you there. Sincerely, Henry Reese, City of Asylum co-founder   Click Here for Free Tickets!   Huang Xiang is considered the pre-eminent post-cultural revolution poet of China. Xiang was the first writer to be provided sanctuary at City of Asylum (2004-06), during which time he created "House Poem", and published Pittsburgh Dream Nest Jotting, a book of Chinese-language essays on his experiences in Pittsburgh. Khet Mar is a journalist, novelist, a fiction writer and essayist. She is the author of one novel, Wild Snowy Night, as well as several collections of short stories and poems. Currently a broadcast journalist with Radio Free Asia, Mar was an exiled writer-in-residence in City of Asylum from 2009-2012.   Israel Centeno, regarded as one of the most important Venezuelan literary figures of the past fifty years, arrived as a writer-in-residence at City of Asylum in 2011. He is the author of poetry, short stories, ten novels, and has won numerous awards, including the Federico Garcia Lorca Award and the National Council of Culture Award in Venezuela. Horacio Castellanos Moyais the author of ten novels, five short story collections, and a book of essays. From El Salvador, for two decades, he worked as a journalist in Mexico, Guatemala and Venezuela. Currently on the faculty at the University of Iowa, he also taught in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.      Yaghoub Yadali was a City of Asylum Writer-in-residence from 2013-2015. A fiction writer, Yadali is the author of the short story collection, Sketches in the Garden, and the novels Probability of Merriment, Mooning, and Adaab-e Bi-Gharari (The Rituals of Restlessness), which won the 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award. Click Here for Free Tickets!   At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people.  All floors of City of Asylum @ Alphabet City are wheelchair accessible. Thanks to the generous support of RAD, we also have hearing assistive systems available for all programs, by advance request.  If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us.    Click here to contact us about accessibility accommodations   City of Asylum is partnering with The Incline, the essential newsletter for Pittsburghers who want to make the most of their city. Sign up for the daily newsletter here!     Visit AlphabetCity.org for our full line-up of FREE events!      Copyright © 2019 City of Asylum, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you registered to hear more from City of Asylum, either at one of our events or online. Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212