Island Voices 3

 

An international
celebration of writing

 

Island Voices brings writers from
Iceland, Ireland, Jamaica and England
to the English East Midlands.


 
Click on the writers' names to read or listen to their work, and to find out more about their very different approaches to writing and performance.

Island Voices Calendar

Island Voices brief history

 

Island Voices is supported by East Midlands Arts and co-ordinated by Tony Graves of Loughborough University.
Island Voices website is designed and built by Bernard Cohen
and hosted by trAce Online Writing Community.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Island Voices -- a brief history

Island Voices 3 is a partnership run by Loughborough and De Montfort Universities to continue and expand on the East Midlands' programme of international writers' exchanges.

Island Voices started as an initiative by an East Midlands Arts Board member, Martin Glynn. There have been two previous programmes involving the East Midlands based on a close partnership with the Institute of Jamaica. The vision has now been expanded to include other island countries, namely Iceland and Ireland.

The pilot project took place over autumn 1993 and spring 1994 with writers Annie Dalton and Wolde Selassie from the East Midlands and Mbala and Stafford Ashani from Jamaica.

Island Voices 2 ran over autumn 1996 and spring 1997. Exchange writers were Russell Watson from Barbados and Melvina Hazard from Trinidad with Chester Morrisson and Richard Pinner from the East Midlands.

The widening of the Island Voices family has been achieved in collaboration with the Association of Icelandic Writers in Reykjavik, Iceland and the Irish Writers' Centre, Dublin, Ireland.

Tony Graves,
Island Voices 3 Co-ordinator

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