The Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Manuel Gonzales
In this segment of The Writer’s Block Manuel Gonzales talks about genre classification, why he writes better when stressed, and his work with the Austin Bat Cave. On February 12, 2014 Manuel Gonzales...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A With Moniru Ravanipur
In this segment of The Writer’s Block Moniru Ravanipur talks about overcoming the censorship inside of her, being an Iranian Gothic writer, and the difficulties of translation. On March 7, 2014 Moniru...
View ArticleThe Freedom Chat: A Conversation with Naziha Syed Ali
The Freedom Chat is a new video series by Sampsonia Way featuring interviews with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these Q&A’s,...
View ArticleExile Hangout: Cuba
In September 2013 a distinguished panel of Cuban writers including Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo (moderator), Lien Carrazana Lau, Danilo Maldonado Machado “El Sexto”, and Elena Victoria Molina spoke about...
View ArticleA Reading at City of Asylum: Generation Zero
Generation Zero includes 16 short stories, selected and edited by Havana-based writer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo. Featured are works by Abel Fernández-Larrea, Ahmel Echevarría Peré, Carlos Esquivel,...
View ArticleThe Freedom Chat: A Conversation with Linor Goralik
The Freedom Chat is a new video series by Sampsonia Way featuring interviews with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these Q&A’s,...
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Readings at City of Asylum: Q&A with Moniro Ravanipour
Moniro Ravanipour. Internationally-acclaimed writer Moniro Ravanipour read from a work-in-progress at City of Asylum on March 7. Ravanipour has written novels, short stories, works for children,...
View ArticleGabriel García Márquez on Writing “100 Years of Solitude”
Video: Democracy Now! via YouTube. Gabriel García Márquez, widely referred to as one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, passed away in Mexico last Thursday, April 17, at the age of 87. It...
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Observing National Poetry Month (Around the World)
Ali Znaidis (Tunisia) http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Ali-Znaidis-Experimental-Ruminations-231x300.jpg From his poem "O, Wind!": "O, wind! You cannot break me / because I'm...
View ArticleThe Freedom Chat: A Conversation with Andrea Daza Tapia
The Freedom Chat is a new video series by Sampsonia Way featuring interviews with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these Q&A’s,...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A With Akhil Sharma
In this segment of The Writer’s Block Akhil Sharma talks about revision, writing from a child’s point of view, and why it took him twelve years to write Family Life. On April 12, 2014 Akhil Sharma came...
View ArticleExile Hangout: Venezuela
In January 2014, a distinguished panel of Venezuelan writers including Israel Centeno (moderator), Liliana Lara, Juan Carlos Chirinos, and Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez spoke about the challenges facing...
View ArticleCultivating Latino Arts: Video Interview with María López De León
In “Cultivating Latino Arts” Sampsonia Way profiles María López De León, Executive Director of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC), along with some of the San Antonio,...
View ArticleThe Freedom Chat: A Conversation with Marina Nemat
The Freedom Chat is a new video series by Sampsonia Way featuring interviews with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these Q&A’s,...
View ArticleCultivating Latino Arts: A Video Q & A with Harvey Mireles
In “Cultivating Latino Arts” Sampsonia Way profiles María López De León, Executive Director of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC), along with some of the San Antonio,...
View ArticleThe Freedom Chat: A Conversation with Andrey Kurkov
The Freedom Chat is a new video series by Sampsonia Way featuring interviews with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these Q&A’s,...
View ArticleCultivating Latino Arts: Video Q & A with Orlando Graves Bolaños
In “Cultivating Latino Arts” Sampsonia Way profiles María López De León, Executive Director of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC), along with some of the San Antonio,...
View ArticleThe Freedom Chat: A Conversation with Michał Janczuk
The Freedom Chat is a new video series by Sampsonia Way featuring interviews with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these Q&A’s,...
View ArticleThe Freedom Chat: A Video Conversation with Nazeeha Saeed
The Freedom Chat is a new video series by Sampsonia Way featuring interviews with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these Q&A’s,...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A With Mazen Maarouf
Mazen Maarouf is a Palestinian poet and writer who was raised in Lebanon. He currently lives in exile in Iceland and has been lauded as a “rising international literary star,” after the publication of...
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