‘WRITING THE FUTURE’
The First Ever Asia-Pacific Festival of Writing

An internationally-supported event for emerging and established writers, scholars of contemporary literature from Asia and the Pacific, publishers, and all those interested in new writing from the region.

New

中国：异议作家胡石根获释
国际笔会狱中作家委员会欢迎已系狱16年3月的大学讲师、政治活动家、异议作家胡石根于2008年8月26日获释。国际笔会对他仍受限制保持关注，并提醒中国当局须遵守联合国《公民权利与政治权利国际公约》第19条。

CHINA: Dissident writer Hu Shigen released

The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN welcomes the release of
University lecturer, political activist and dissident writer Hu Shigen on 26
of August 2008, after spending sixteen years and three months in prison.

VASU Pacific Women of Power is an initiative that brings together forty-six
female artists in an art extravaganza never seen before in Fiji and
perhaps in the Pacific.

Art forms featured include: painting, writing, film,fashion design, short stories, sculpture, pottery,

AUSTRALIAN POETRY CENTRE and MELBOURNE PEN CENTRE

ANNOUNCE THE

31st FRANCO-ANGLAIS POETRY FESTIVAL

OCTOBER 8th to OCTOBER 12th
Melbourne, Australia

AT GLENFERN, ALLIANCE FRANCAISE, MELBOURNE ATHENAEUM

LIBRARY, JOLIMONTEXPRESSO CAFE, THE ATRIUM,
FEDERATION SQUARE and