On 1 April 2017, UK-based writers, poets, novelists, playwrights and artists joined English PEN and the Enemies Project for the second English PEN Modern Literature Festival. Each of the writers performed new works created in solidarity with some of the individuals we support throughout the year through our Writers at Risk Programme. We are hugely grateful to all the writers who took part and especially to the festival’s curator and mastermind SJ Fowler for an extraordinary and inspiring day.

Luke Kennard  for Raif Badawi
Nisha Ramayya  for Aseem Trivedi
Susie Campbell  for Tsering Woeser
Lavinia Singer  for Zhu Yufu
SJ Fowler  for Waleed Abu Al Khair
Mischa Foster Poole  for Alaa Abd El Fattah
Chloe Spicer  for Dina Meza
Kate Wakeling  for Nurmuhemmet Yasin
Hannah Silva  for Narges Mohammadi
Zoë Skoulding  for Sanjuana Martinez Montemayor
matt martin  for Amanuel Asrat
John Hall  for Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace
Rebecca Tamas  for Ashraf Fayadh
Carol Watts  for Aslı Erdoğan
Tom Jenks  for Nabeel Rajab
Peter Philpott  for Dawit Isaak
Rod Mengham  for Mahvash Sabet
Camilla Nelson  for Dareen Tatour
Sasha Dugdale  for Ahmet and Mehmet Altan
Simon Pomery  for Nguyen Van Dai
Sandeep Parmar  for Lydia Cacho
Jeremy Noel-Tod  for Nelson Aguilera
Chrissy Williams  for The Al-Khawaja family
Tony White  for Ahmed Naji
Matthew Welton  for Tutul
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett  for Liu Xia
Vahni Capildeo  for The Douma 4