Welcome to the Shahrazad website, a free space in Europe for writers from all over the world to tell their stories and to be heard. The Shahrazad project is an offshoot of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN), an association of cities and regions worldwide committed to free speech. Six ICORN cities are taking part in the Shahrazad project: Barcelona, Brussels, Frankfurt, Norwich, Stockholm and Stavanger. But writers from every corner of the world are invited to contribute words. Shahrazad is new and the website unformed. It will take time to find our way and collect your stories, but slowly and surely, the narrative impulse in all human beings will emerge and accumulate until we have created at least one thousand and one versions of human experience and some new, tough, insights and narratives for Europe itself.
