4 June 2007

In This Issue:

• Versal! Versal! Versal!

• News from the House

• Calls for Writers
• Lit Event Roundup

NEWS

The news—the best of the news—continues to be that Versal Five is in the world, in your hands, in our hands, for sale, on sale, in libraries, in bookstores, on bookshelves. It's here.

Versal Five, like its predecessors, combines innovative design with fantastic writing from up-and-coming as well as established writers and poets.

Take Vesna Biga, a novelist and poet from Zagreb, Croatia. She has half a dozen books to her name, but this is among the first times she’ll be read in English. Or Ana Lafferranderie, born in Uruguay, who coordinates a poetry series in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has a collection forthcoming from an Argentine publisher. Or Dutch poet Tsead Bruinja, whose latest collection Bang voor de Bal (Afraid of the ball) was released this year by Cossee publishers. He is a veritable tour de force in the Dutch and Frisian literary scenes.

Contributors to the new edition also include Americans Jeffery Beam, Siân B. Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Josh Hockensmith, Andrew Michael Roberts, and Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, British writers Helen Burke, Giles Goodland, and Alistair Noon, and Croatian writer Enes Kurtovic.

Order your copy today—or better yet, one of the dead-cheap, deal-happy subscriptions.

News from the House

Drumroll please...the illustrious Robert Glick has been offered a fantastic PhD opportunity in the USA. He'll be heading Stateside in July, and though we hate to see him go, we're so excited to see him fly. Lucky for Versal that he'll stay on as Fiction Editor, which I for one can simply not do without.

Cralan has some new publications out this month: French Pastry has been released by Coracle publishers, the folks who put together his first collection, Lemon Red. A foldout booklet, City Boy, has been released by Longhouse, and Autobahn Children & Another Day Roars Broadside by Blue Press Portfolio.

CALLS FOR WRITERS

In Paris with Kurt Brown — July 1-6, 2007 — The annual Paris Writers' Workshop is proud to present a poetry workshop with Kurt Brown, including 5 daily morning sessions in a small workshop group with Brown, afternoons include individual conferences with Writers in Residence and craft lectures by guest writers on all genres (publishing, fiction, theatre, reading aloud, etc.). Each evening, a reading or social event is scheduled for you to mix with writers in the other workshops or to know your group better. Closing off the week, a final "Literary" Dinner with participants and visiting writers. Cheaper than flying to Aspen or Sarah Lawrence to see Kurt Brown, this is a week to savor! More info and to register: www.wice-paris.org

Bordercrossing Berlin Issue Two Launch — The 2nd issue of Bordercrossing Berlin will be launched on 15th June at 8pm at ACUD Kantine, Veteranenstrasse 21, Berlin-Mitte. With open air readings by authors featured in issue 2, live music, a barbecue and a special set of stand-up comedy from Jacinta Nandi with Candi Girl. More info: www.bordercrossing-berlin.com

LIT EVENT ROUNDUP

The Speakeasy - Utrecht

Thursday 7 June, 8pm

De Broederij, Utrecht

Inspire yourself and others at the new Speakeasy in Utrecht! An informal monthly gathering for writers and friends between the fertile walls of the Broederij, breathing with art, theatre, music and literature. Bring some work to share: your our own poetry or that which has influenced your life. There is of course coffee, tea, wine and paper for spontaneity. This is a space where conversation about literature is made open and easy. Entrance: free. More info...

Miranda July

Thursday 7 June, 8pm

Hotel Arena, Amsterdam

Filmmaker, performing artist and writer Miranda July discusses her work and her new collection of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You. After writing, directing and starring in the feature film Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, she now turns her prodigious talents to fiction. The evening will be moderated by Wilfred Takken, arts editor for NRC Handelsblad. More info: www.john-adams.nl

Podium Plankenkoorts #1

Saturday 16 June, 8:30pm

Houtzaagmolen de Ster, Utrecht

wordsinhere Curator Anna Arov performs at an exciting event organized by poet Casper Fioole: the first Podium Plankenkoorts. With performances from Eric van Loo, Sony Pantschevski, Bart Bleijerveld, Merijn Schipper, Danibal, and Casper Fioole. Entrance: free. More info: www.casperfioole.nl/podiumplankenkoorts

Poetry International Festival

16-22 June

Rotterdam City Theater, Rotterdam

This year’s 38th Poetry International Festival explores the links between poetry, lunacy and melancholy. Events at the seven-day festival include poetry presentations, movies, musical performances, lectures and panel discussions inspired by this theme. This year’s regional focus is on poetry from the Caucasus. The festival starts off with an "Ode to the Word", a grand parade of poets each presenting a poem on the subject of a single word — just a word, a favorite word, or a word lost in time. Poets taking part in the 2007 festival include Yves Bonnefoy (France) Lennart Sjögren (Sweden) and Anneke Brassinga (the Netherlands). More info: www.poetry.nl

The Speakeasy - Amsterdam

Thursday 28 June, 7pm

The English Bookshop, Amsterdam

The Speakeasy is a monthly gathering of the local, international literary community for easy conversation & company in a cozy bookshop in the Jordaan. Have some coffee and a chat, then join everyone for drinks & pool at a nearby bar. Entrance: free. More info...

For the complete listing of events, click here...

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