July 2010
June 2010
- Committee to Protect Journalists releases Survey on Journalists in Exile
- ICORN Guest Writer Philo Ikonya published in Germany
- ICORN consolidates and looks forward at successful Frankfurt assembly
- The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition open for submissions
- The Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition open for entries
- My Dictator and I
- The European Parliament Debates Report on Human Rights Defenders Today
- Denmark's first ICORN Guest Writer arrives in Århus
- Two new books from ICORN Guest Writer Manal Al-Sheikh
- New Book from former Guest Writer Gilles Dossou-Gouin
- The General Assembly addressed by the Chairwoman of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights
- Easterine Iralu's 'A Terrible Matriarchy' published by Shahrazad in Germany
- IPN announces Ninth Annual Bastiat Prize Competition
May 2010
- Coming up: ICORN General Assembly in Frankfurt
- Guest Writer's Creative Writing Workshop in Uppsala results in Literary Festival
- World Press Freedom Day: Persecuted journalists find safe haven in ICORN cities
April 2010
- The Manchester Poetry Prize opens for submissions
- Kjell Olaf Jensen receives the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav
- Haugesund, Norway joins ICORN
- International PEN celebrates 'Free the Word' in London
March 2010
- Tunisian Writer Sihem Bensedrine is the new ICORN Guest Writer in Barcelona
- Welcome to the ICORN General Assembly in Frankfurt
- ICORN Guest Writers Celebrate World Poetry Day
- Featured Writer: Dejan Anastasijevic
- Malmö joins ICORN as City of Refuge
- International PEN WiPC Caselist July-December 2009 Now Available
- Freemuse Celebrates Music Freedom Day 2010
- Three Danish Cities and one Island of Refuge Ready for ICORN
- 'Translated Days' in Oslo 11-13 March
February 2010
- ICORN meets local representatives to discuss a Region of Refuge in Southern Sweden
- Cartoonists Rights Network International Opens its First Local Chapter
- Free Press and Free Expression Organizations to Iran: Release Jailed Journalists, Writers
- Poetry Reading with Anisur Rahman in Uppsala
- ICORN Guest Writer takes part in planning South African Film Days in Lillehammer
January 2010
- Uppsala Guest Writer Hosts Creative Writing/Literary Workshops
- ICORN at the European Parliament
- ICORN Guest Writer Safaa Alwan Opens 'Basrah - The Way I Saw It'
- Succesful ICORN Launch in Snowy London
- New Book from ICORN Guest Writer Ayaz Khonsyawashan
December 2009
- ICORN Launch in London January 7
- Press freedom prize awarded to Israeli reporter and Chechen magazine Dosh
November 2009
- New Book from ICORN Guest Writer Hamza Zirem
- Irakli Kakabadze among the recipients of the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award
- New Book from ICORN Guest Writer Musa Mutaev
- ICORN congratulates Kjell Olaf Jensen on being awarded Norwegian PEN's first Honorary Prize
- Kenyan writer Philo Ikonya is ICORN guest writer in Oslo, Norway.
- Miami first North American City to join ICORN
- Call for applications and nominations: Guest Writer’s Grant at the Nordic Africa Institute
- One World Human Rights International Documentary Film Festival: Call for Proposals
October 2009
- Conquering the Walls of Silence: New anthology with works by imprisoned and exiled writers launched in Vienna
- Call for Brown University IWP Applications / Nominations
- ICORN Guest Writer Li Jianhong Blocked from Returning Home
- The Danish Government has Decided to Fund Municipalities Wishing to Establish Cities of Refuge
- PEN Urges Swedish Migration Authorities to Grant Guest Writer Anisur Rahman Asylum
- ICWE Member John Ralston Saul Elected as President of International PEN
- Call for Nominations for Hellman/Hammett Grants
- Call for Nominations for Daniel Pearl Awards
- ICORN Director Discusses Exiled Writer Networks at the Frankfurt Book Fair
- The Writers in Prison Committee releases guide to defending writers under attack
- The University of Manitoba is searching for a Writer- or Storyteller-In-Residence
September 2009
- ICORN Writers at the Gothenburg Book Fair
- ICORN Guest Writers perform at Stavanger International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Expression: Kapittel
- IIE Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowship Announcement
- ICORN guest writers performing at Pittsburgh Jazz & Poetry Concert
- Bestselling author Cecilia Samartin visits Shahrazad - stories for life in Stavanger
August 2009
- 644 cases of imprisonment, attack and even killings of writers recorded by International PEN in first half of 2009.
- Knight Fellowship Programme Seeks Applicants
July 2009
- Chenjerai Hove is awarded stipend for new book project
- Er Tai Gao, former writer in residence of City of Asylum Las Vegas, publishes memoir.
- Palma de Mallorca becomes ICORN City of Refuge
- The ICORN Aministration Center have been granted addittional funding
June 2009
- Exiled Iranian Writers’ Appeal to the Writers of the World: Help us stop the suppression of the Iranian people!
- Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) releases special report: Journalists in Exile 2009
- Apply now for the Freedom to Create Prize!
- 2009 Lorenzo Prize for Human Rights and Democracy
- The Frankfurt Book Fair interviews Peter Ripken, Chair of ICORN's Executive Board
- Norwegian Cities of Refuge participated in Marketplace of Ideas
- Former Guest Writer Easterine Kire Iralu now has a website
- Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs highlights support of ICORN as a central part of the Ministry's human rights policy
- ICORN and Danish PEN win the Hal Koch award
May 2009
- 2009 BASTIAT PRIZE COMPETITION
- ICORN at the Global Forum on Freedom of Expression in Oslo
- Former Guest Writer Gilles Dossou-Gouin now has his own website
- ICORN writers meet Norwegian writers at the House of Literature in Oslo
- Norwegian Cities of Refuge participate in Marketplace of Ideas
- The 2009 ICORN Lecture: The Forgotten Fruits of Migration by Ilija Trojanow
- Former Guest Writer Chenjerai Hove co-edits book about writing on conflicts in Africa.
- Easterine Kire Iralu's novel A Terrible Matriarchy published in Norwegian
April 2009
- ICORN established as an international organisation
- ICORN General Assembly to be held in Barcelona on April 21 and 22
- The “Roland Berger Award for Human Dignity” goes to Reporters Without Borders and Shirin Ebadi
October 2008
- ICORN at Kosmopolis International Literature Fest in Barcelona
- ICORN and Shahrazad at the Frankfurt Book Fair
- Nominations Wanted for Hellman/Hammett Grants
September 2008
- ICORN and Shahrazad at Gøteborg Book Fair
- ICORN at Stavanger International Festival of Literature Kapittel 08
August 2008
- Featured writer: Carlos A. Aguilera
- New collection of poetry from Mansur Rajih
- Freedom of Speech at Amsterdam World Book Capital
July 2008
April 2008
December 2007
November 2007
- Day for Imprisoned Writers
- Shahrazad Begins. . .
- Writing Without Fear: Freedom of Expression
- A Beginning for Shahrazad
- EU Contract for Shahrazad Signed
October 2007
September 2007
- AUTUMN 07 Featured Writer: Irakli Kakabadze
- AUTUMN 07: Somalia/Somaliland
- AUTUMN 07: Michelle Tackla
- AUTUMN 07: Martin Willitts Jr
- AUTUMN 07: Roberta Fabiani
- AUTUMN 07: Janet McCann
- AUTUMN 07: Marian Kaplun Shapiro
- AUTUMN 07: Kristen Orser
- AUTUMN 07: Sheema Kalbasi
- AUTUMN 07: Carol Willette Bachofner
- AUTUMN 07: Christopher (Kit) Kelen
- AUTUMN 07 In Dialogue: ICORN and Annie Finch
- AUTUMN 07: Sibila Petlevski
- AUTUMN07: Kim Foote
- An Interview with Irakli Kakabadze
- AUTUMN 07: Kareem Amer
May 2007
April 2007
- SUMMER 07 Empty Chair: Oscar Sánchez Madan
- SUMMER 07: Ethiopia
- SUMMER 07 Featured Writer: Huang Xiang
- Huang Xiang, a brief biography
- SUMMER 07: Josef Lesser
- SUMMER 07: J.D. Smith
- SUMMER 07: Anushka Anastasia Solomon
- SUMMER 07: Larissa Shmailo
- SUMMER 07: Tatjana Lukic
- SUMMER 07: Alan Davis
- SUMMER 07: Shannon Gibney
- SUMMER 07 In Dialogue: Joseph Duemer
- SUMMER 07 In Dialogue: Invitation (Susan Rich)
- New ICORN City in Brussels
February 2007
- SPRING 07 In Dialogue: Asli Erdogan and Cécile Oumhani
- SPRING 07: Challenging Definitions
- SPRING 07: Han Shan
January 2007
- SPRING 07: Marie Étienne
- SPRING 07: Niels Hav
- SPRING 07: Amanda Aizpuriete
- SPRING 07 Empty Chair: Jamshid Karimov
- SPRING 07: A letter from Chenjerai Hove
- SPRING 07 Featured Writer: Chenjerai Hove
- SPRING 07 Featured Region: Turkey
- SPRING 07 In Dialogue: Enke and Kalayeh
- SPRING 07: Jeff Encke
- SPRING 07: Cécile Oumhani
December 2006
November 2006
- ICORN Book Launch: Easterine Kire Iralu
- November 15, Day of the Imprisoned Writer
- WINTER 06: Listen to babel
- WINTER 06 Featured Region: Iraq
- WINTER 06: Moris Farhi O
- WINTER 06 Empty Chair: Yang Maodong
October 2006
- WINTER 06: Catherine Daly
- WINTER 06: Gilles Dossou-Gouin
- WINTER 06: Susan Blanshard
- WINTER 06 In Dialogue: Vianu and Eva Salzman
- WINTER 06: Rita Dahl
- WINTER 06: Konstantin Pavlov
- WINTER 06 In Dialogue: Karen Connelly and Fereshteh Molavi
- WINTER 06: Four Poems by Faraj Bayrakdar
- WINTER 06 Featured Writer: Faraj Bayrakdar
- WINTER 06: Julie R. Enszer
- Kapittel 06
- 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair
- 2006 Göteborg International Book Fair
August 2006
- AUTUMN 06: Welcome to babel
- AUTUMN 06: Kristin Schnider
- AUTUMN 06: Chenjerai Hove in Voices
- 2006 Edinburgh International Book Festival
- AUTUMN 06: Stefan Tobler
- AUTUMN 06 Featured Region: Chechnya
- AUTUMN 06 Empty Chair: Ramin Jahanbegloo
- AUTUMN 06: The Storyteller by Easterine Kire Iralu
- AUTUMN 06 Featured Writer: Easterine Kire Iralu
- AUTUMN 06: Mansur Rajih
- AUTUMN 06: Étienne Balibar