Nada Faris is a Kuwaiti writer and performance poet known as “Kuwait’s Finest.” She is an Honorary Fellow in Writing at Iowa University’s International Writing Program (IWP), USA. She gave two TEDx talks in 2017: “Perception is only an ink stain away,” which she presented at Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center for TEDxAl-Shuwaikh (above), and “The Beauty of Friendship” which she presented at The Canadian University of Dubai for TEDxCanadianUniversityDubai. She also wrote and performed “>me (greater than me)” for TEDxAl-Shuwaikh in March 2016, which took place at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). In 2015, she became a member of the board of trustees for Kuwait’s Cultural Circle Prize for the Arabic Short Story (Almultaqa), the Arab world’s first international award for short story collections in Arabic. And in 2016, she received a MENA Salam fellowship from World Peace Initiative Foundation’s Peace Revolution to meditate with Buddhist monks in Turkey in 2016.
Her article “Every Child Deserves a Home: Zeina Al-Sultan Unveils the Truths Behind Adoption in Kuwait” won en.v’s Voice of Success program in 2012.
Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry have been published in The Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction, Economic and Political Weekly, Fanack Chronicle of the Middle East & North Africa, The Operating System, Sukoon, The Indianola Review, and more. She has performed at Busboys and Poets, Washington DC, USA, The Feminist Union, Iowa, USA, The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK, and all over Kuwait.
Her book Fountain of Youth is the 2016 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award Semi-Finalist and is available from Vine Leaves Press, Melbourn, Australia. Mischief Diary, a collection of humorous young adult short stories, is available from Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press, Doha, Qatar.
Bowled over by their talent yet? Inspired? Need to have a go yourself?
Why not try a workshop and see how ready you are?
Date(s) - 23/12/2017
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Workshops are hour-long meets in which a leader guides the group in breaking open the walls the brain tends to force itself into, in order to encourage creativity outside of the box.
Workshops can include writing exercises, prompts, reading other poetry and prose, and watching or listening to media. They are designed to get you inspired to write – either to kick you out of writer’s block, to look at something in a different way, or to help you explore yourself and your experiences so that you’re able to write about them.
They are great for all: those who write daily, who have been writing for years and are stuck, or those who have just picked up the pen.
Workshops are 1 KD for non-KPS members, to be paid in cash at entrance to the workshop.
If you are not a KPS member and would like to attend, please enter your information below under BOOKINGS and wait for an approval email.
If you have any questions, please contact us here.
Note: 20 guest spaces are available for this workshop.
LWDLIK - I read a few nasty things in the news lately that had me re-assessing my love and patience for Kuwait, and then this morning almost as if to pull me back to its bosom I stumble upon these incredibly talented people who express their beautiful stories so passionately that tears slowly fall from my chin on to my keyboard.
Arabic poets and writers who express themselves in English have a huge untapped audience. Your articulate, eloquent, depth, insightful, fresh use of the English language is beyond exquisite. Coffee and inspiration is a great start to the day. Thank you.
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