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May
30, 2008 - Cities of Refuge North America expands its network
of refuge cities; initiatives underway in Charleston, Cleveland, Burlington and Houston |
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"Exclusive
Interview with Horacio Castellanos Moya," by Jennifer Dionisio,
Next American City |
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April
10, 2008 - Georgian writer Irakli Kakabadze is selected as
the Fourth Writer-in-Residence at Ithaca City of Asylum.
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February
1, 2008 - Skidmore College enters into a three-year sponsorship
agreement with Cities of Refuge North America.
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January
25, 2008 - Editor-in-Chief of Salmagundi Robert
Boyers accepts appointment to the Advisory Board.
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January
24, 2008 - Internationally renowned writer Elena
Poniatowska accepts appointment to the Advisory Board. |
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January
22, 2008 - CoRNA's Executive Board qualifies three additional
dissident writers in need of refuge for consideration at local
Cities of Refuge: Irakli Kakabadze (Georgia), Pierre Mujomba
(Congo) and Jie Li (China). |
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October
12, 2007 - Acclaimed author Peter
Balakian joins the Advisory Board of Cities of Refuge North
America. |
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September
29, 2007 - Banned
Writers Find Refuge in U.S. Cities, from All Things Considered, National
Public Radio. |
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September
28, 2007 - Two
Stories, by Sarah Mkhonza, Writer-in-Residence at Ithaca
City of Asylum, is a chapbook of short stories, now available
from Vista Periodista. |
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August
23, 2007 - "Writer
departs the War Streets," Pittsburgh Dish
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August
20, 2007 - Cities of Refuge North America
launches new website, calls
for more refuge cities to join the network to aid the world's
persecuted writers |
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June
29, 2007 - Internationally acclaimed Iranian novelist Moniro
Ravanipour is selected as the third writer-in-residence at City
of Asylum Las Vegas. |
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July
15, 2007 - "Foreign
writers find refuge in Pittsburgh," Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review |
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January
29, 2007 - Horacio Moya
is Selected as New Writer-in-Residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh |
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September
20, 2006 - "Fighting
from Afar," Ithaca Times |
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September
12, 2006 - "Dissident
and Novelist from African Autocracy Finds Sanctuary at Cornell,"
Chronicle Online |
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September
1, 2006 - "Cities
of Asylum Prepares another Home for Exiled Writer," Post-Gazette |
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April
6, 2006 - Ithaca City of Asylum
Board selects Sarah Mkhonza of Swaziland for next residency |
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April
3, 2006 - "UNLV
institute to welcome Toni Morrison as speaker," Las
Vegas Review Journal |
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March
16, 2006 - "Dealing
with the world's woes UNLV think tank is taking shape," Las
Vegas SUN |
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February/March
2006 - FREEDOM
OF EXPRESSION: CITIES OF ASYLUM PROVIDE REFUGE FOR PERSECUTED
ARTISTS, Paste Magazine, pp. 50 - 51 |
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November
16, 2004 - "The
right to write: City gives safe harbor to exiled Chinese poet
and his work," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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September
25, 2004 - "Ithaca
project sponsors Iranian writer," Post-Standard,
Syracuse, NY |
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August
9, 2004 - "U.S.
Cities Support Writers in Exile," Publishers Weekly |
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January
10, 2004 - "International
group plans writers’ haven in Las Vegas," Associated
Press |
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January
6, 2004 - "Las
Vegas to become city of asylum for dissident writers," Las
Vegas Review-Journal |
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