Marjory McGinn talks to Neos Kosmos about living in a remote hillside village in the southern Peloponnese for 3 years during the crisis, and writing a book about it

Lorne’s resident fisherman-poet, Christos Raskatos, scrawls haiku and Greek verse on the chalkboard outside his shop, next to where he hangs the day’s catch

Dean Kalimniou’s poetry collection Kelyfospastis along with two others, Anisixasmos and Plektani will be launched on 8 September

The Thirteenth Goddess and The Stolen Marbles of Acropolis, published in Greek and English, hopes to raise awareness of the Elgin Marbles

Plektani shows through symbols and images a world stretched to the limits of endurance.

Author Jennifer Barclay has written about her experiences of love and life on a Greek island

In his poems Kalimniou re-appropriates and redirects the function and significance to self-knowledge of such an awareness of the light and energy – Dean Kalimniou’s ‘Aνησυχασμός

The eleven day festival includes a children’s program, writing masterclasses and walking tours

Eyvah Dafaranos, Dr Nikos Papastergiadis and Helen Nickas will join Justice Kyrou in an event focussing on migration and assimilation

Author Christos Tsiolkas became the subject of a book this time, with John Vasilakakos taking on the task of writing his first biography