WPM Asia
Continental Coordinators:
Ali Al Ameri (Jordan-Palestine)
Jidi Majia (China)
Keshab Sigdel (Nepal)
Rati Saxena (India)
Vadim Terekhin (Russia)
Hanan Awwad (Palestine)
National Coordinators
Jidi Majia (China)
Adel Khosam (United Arab Emirates)
Kamran Mir Hazar (Hazaristan)
Nahid Kabiri (Iran)
Abdul Hadi Sadoun (Iraq)
Rina Kikuchi (Japan)
Ali Al Ameri (Jordan)
Ulugbek Esdauketov (Kazakhstan)
Duaij Al-Mousa (Kuwait)
Altynai Temirova (Kyrgyzstan)
Shivani Sivagurunathan (Malaysia)
Imdad Aakash (Pakistan)
Marra Lanot (Philippines)
Soad Al Kuwari (Qatar)
Saleh Zamanan (Saudi Arabia)
Shirani Rajapaksa (Sri Lanka)
Monzer Masri (Syria)
Abdukakhor Kosim (Tajikistan)
Khosyat Rustam (Uzbekistan)
Mohammed Al-Lawzi (Yemen)
Huu Viet (Vietnam)
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AFGHANISTAN-HAZARISTAN:
Poetry Projects:
Kabul Press. Kamran Mir Hazar
Poets:
Kamran Mir Hazar
Basir Ahang (Italia/ Hazaristan)
ARMENIA:
Poetry Projects:
Armenian Poetry Project (Armenia-United States)
Armenia’s Writer’s Union, Levon Ananyan, poet and president
Poets:
Hovhannes Grigoryan
Hakob Movses
Henrik Edoyan
Arevshat Avagyan
Avag Epremyan
Hrachya Beyleryan
Vahe Arsen
Hermine Navasardyan
BAHRAIN:
Poets:
Fawzia Alsindi
Qassim Haddad
BANGLADESH:
Poetic Projects:
National Press Club Poetry Council, Ershad Mazumder, poet and president
Poets:
Ershad Mazumder
Quamruzzaman Swapan
CHINA:
Jidi Majia (China) National Coordinator
Festivals:
International Poetry Festival in Chengdu
Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival. Jidi Majia, director
Poetic Projects:
Chinese Poetry Society and ZhongKun Poetry Development Fund, Luo Ying, poet and director
Poets:
Jami Proctor-Xu
Junfei Hu, Director of VOX Scotland
INDIA:
Rati Saxena, poet and director of Krytia International Poetry Festival. National Coordinator.
Festivals:
Delhi International Literary Festival and Aark Arts, Sudeep Sen, poet and director
Krytia International Poetry Festival, Rati Saxena, poet and director (Member of Coordinating Committee)
Poetic Projects:
Splendors of Dawn Poetry Foundation, M.C. Mafando, manager
Thanal Online, C. P. Aboobacker, poet and director poetry magazine
Poets:
Aditya Shukla
Agni Shekhar
Ajaya Pradhan
Aju Mukhopadhyay
Alpesh Yashu
Amar Baniya Lohoro
Anant
Anju Makhija
Anuvab Tulsi
Anwar Suhail
Amit Kalla Rajsthan
Anup T
Apanpa Marandi
Aparna Mohanti
Archana Shenoy
Ashutosh Parida
Babitha Marina Justin
Babu Louis
Basanti Majhi
Basant Tripathi
Bikash Rai Debberma
Bineesh
Bipul Regon
Bhaskar Roy Barman
Brajesh Singh
Dafairoon
Dileep Jhaveri
Dr Ganesh Mohite
Govind Mathur
Govind Prasan Upadhyay
Hemant Divate
Hemdhar Sharma
Henkar Rokom Bado
Himanshu Vyas
Imtiaz Dharker
Jayram Khedekar
Jaysree Nair
Jayachandran R
Dr Jija Shinde, Kamayani Bisht
Jamuna Bini- Coordinator north Indian languages –
K. Satchidanandan
Kamal Vora, Kaling Borang
Kedar Mishra
Khaleel Ur Rahman
Kirpal Singh
Kumar Ambuj
Lakshmi Sharma
Liladhar Mandloi
Loknath Yashwant
Madn Saini-Rajsthani
Mahesh
Mamang Dai
Mandakini Pachauri
Manua Das
Meenakshi, Metin Chengez
Minimon Laloo
Mita Das- Madhya
Monaliza Jena
Dr Nanasaheb Pawar
Nand Kishor Bharadwaj
Nafees Alam
Neha Bhandarkar
Naran Gojia
Neela Padmanabhan
Neetta Porwal
Nikhilesh Mishra
Naleen Kumar
Nafees Alam
Dr Needhi Patvardhan
Neha Bhandarkar
Neeraj Daiya
Om Prakash Nagar
On Teron
Paa Sathiya Mohan
PN Gopikrishnan
Pooja Priyamvada
Prabha Ganorkar
Pradeep Kumar Panda
Prakash Dulewale
Prasenjit Gaikwad
Pritidhara Samal
Prithviraj Taur-Marathi
Pushpendra Falgun
Rabindra K Swain
Rajendra Patil
Rashina Rasheed
Rashmi Chaudury
Rashmi Bhardwaj
Ratnakar Bhelkar
Ria Boro
Rizio Yohanan
Robin S. Ngangom
Rizio Yohanan
Robin S. NgangomPooja Rakesh Srivastava
Dr Ramesh Mane
Ranjit Sharma
Sainny Ashesh
Sandeep Tiwari
Sanjeev Buxy
Santhan Haridasan
Satchid Anandan
Satyanarayan
Sarita Sail
Sebonti Ghosh
Dr Shaikh Iqbal Minne
Shail Raghuvanshi
Shakti Mohanti
Shambhu Badal
Shankar Singh Rajpurohit
Shayak Alok
Shripad Bhalchandra Joshi
Sikhamani
Simantini
Smitha Sehgal
Soniya Bahukhandi
Prof Streamlet Dkhar
Sujatha Mathai
Sukrita Paul Kumar
Sumesh
Suneel Soni
Sunita Jhade
Sunieta Zhade
Dr Swati Damodare
Udai Narayan Singh
Tasnim Khan
Tukaram Dhande
Dr Tushar Chandvadkar
Uma
Umesh Yadav
Vandana Tete
Veer Saxena
Vikram Purohit
Vishvnath Prasad Tiwari
INDONESIA:
Poet:
Dorothea Rosa Herliany
IRAN:
Nahid Kabiri (National Coordinator)
Poetry Festivals:
International Festival of Peace Poetry, Rira Abbasi, poet and director
Poets:
Mahnaz Badihian
Ali Abdollahi
Mahnaz Badihian
Sahar Ajdamsani
Zibahoo Karbassi
IRAQ:
Abdul Hadi Sadoun (National Coordinator)
Poets:
Adnan Al-Sayegh
Dunya Mikhail
Jan Dost (Kurdistan/ Iraq)
Bassem Al Meraiby
Khazal Almajidi
JAPAN:
Rina Kikuchi (National Coordinator)
Poet:
Keijirō Suga
Ban’ya Natsuishi
JORDAN:
Ali Al Ameri (National Coordinator)
Poets:
Fathie Saudi
Hussein Jelaad
KAZAKHSTAN:
Ulugbek Esdauletov: (National Coordinator )
KOREA SOUTH:
Poet:
Kim Eung-gyo
Sungrye Han
KUWAIT:
Duaij Al-Mousa, National Coordinator
Poetic Projects:
Cultural Foundation Jozoor / Masaa Publishing. Mohammed Al Nabhan: poet and editor
Poets:
Mohammed Al Nabhan
Nashmi Muhanna
KYRGYZSTAN:
Altynai Temirova (National Coordinator)
Poet:
Akbar Ryskulov
LEBANON:
Poets:
Hanane Aad
Joumana Hadad
MALAYSIA
Shivani Sivagurunathan (National Coordinator)
MONGOLIA:
Poets:
Baatarkhuu Tumendembere (Musician)
Galsansukh Baatar
Hadaa Sendoo
MYANMAR:
Poetry Festival:
Myanmar Poetry Festival. Myint Aung, poet and director
NEPAL:
Keshab Sigdel (National Coordinator)
Poetic Project:
Society of Nepali Writers
Poets:
Avaya Shrestha
Janak Sapkota
Keshab Sigdel, poet and member of Society of Nepali Writers in English (Member of WPM Coordinating Committee) Bhuwan Thapaliya
Sarita Tiwari
PAKISTAN:
Imdad Aakash (National Coordinator)
Poets:
Aarif Saib
Aftab Iqbal Sahmim
Haris Khaleeq
Kishwar Naheed
Manzar Naqvi
Muhammad Shanazar
Nadia Umber Lodhi
Raza Rumi
Qaiser Ali Khan
PALESTINE:
Hannan Awwad, poet and president of Pen Club. (National Coordinator).
Poetic Projects:
Pen Club, Hannan Awwad, poet and president
Poets:
Ghassan Zaqtan
Widad Amra
PHILIPPINES:
Marra Lanot (National Coordinator)
Poetic Project:
Santermo Writers’ Circle. Elsie Coscolluela, poet and coordinator
Poets:
Alice Sun-Cua
Anthony Tan
Danilo M. Reyes
Jade Snow Dionzon
Jean Lee Patindol
Jonathan Davila
Marjorie Evasco
Merlie M. Alunan
Rayboy Pandan
Rafael Alonso
Tanya Lopez
Abdon Balde Jr.
Alfred ‘Krip’ Yuson
Allan Popa
Carla Pacis
Danilo Francisco Reyes
Gemino Abad
Genaro Gojo Cruz
Genevieve Asenjo
Grace Monte de Ramos
Ida del Mundo
Jaime Oscar Salazar
Johann Espiritu
John Iremil Teodoro
Jose Ma. Fons
Joseph De Luna Saguid
Joseph Velasco
Marne Kilates
Michael Coroza
Mookie Katigbak
Noelle Leslie dela Cruz
Nonon Carandang – song -doublé quartet-
Ronald Baytan
Peter Pichler
Ronald Recto
Santiago Villafania
QATAR:
Soad Al Kuwari (National Coordinator)
RUSSIA:
Vadim Terekhin, co-president of Writers’ Union of Russia. National Coordinator.
Regional Coordinators:
Central Federal District: Belgorod region, Bryansk region, Vladimir region, Voronezh region, Ivanovo region, Kaluga region, Kostroma region, Kursk region, Lipetsk region, Moscow region, Orel region, Ryazan region, Smolensk region, Tambov region, Tver region, Tula region, Yaroslavl region, Moscow.
The center of the Federal District is the city of Moscow.
AFC COORDINATOR: Mashukova Elena, Frolov Andrey.
Northwestern Federal District:
Republic of Karelia, Republic of Komi, Arkhangelsk region, Vologda region, Kaliningrad region, Leningrad region, Murmansk region, Novgorod region, Pskov region, St. Petersburg, Autonomous district of Nenets.
The center of the Federal District is Saint Petersburg.
NWFD COORDINATOR: Dmitry Mizgulin. Igor Smolkin, Elena Pietiläinen.
Southern Federal District: Republic of Adygeya (Adygeya), Republic of Kalmykia, Republic of Crimea, Krasnodar region, Astrakhan region, Volgograd region, Rostov region, city of Sevastopol.
The center of the Federal District is the city of Rostov-on-Don.
SFD COORDINATOR: Svetlana Makarova, Leonid Sever.
North Caucasus Federal District:
Republic of Dagestan, Republic of Ingushetia, Republic of Kabardino-Balkar, Republic of Karachay-Cherkess, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Republic of Chechnya, Stavropol Territory.
The center of the Federal District is the city of Pyatigorsk.
SKFO COORDINATOR: Magomed Akhmedov, Murat Akhmedov.
Volga Federal District: Republic of Bashkortostan, Republic of Mari El, Republic of Mordovia, Republic of Tatarstan (Tatarstan), Republic of Udmurtia, Chuvash Republic – Chuvashia, Perm Territory, Kirov Region, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Region of Orenburg, Penza region, Samara region, Saratov region, Ulyanovsk region.
The center of the Federal District is Nizhny Novgorod.
COORDINATOR of the Volga Federal District: Zaki Alibayev, Olga Daranova.
District fédéral de l’Oural: région de Kourgan, région de Sverdlovsk, région de Tioumen, région de Tcheliabinsk, district autonome de Khanty-Mansi-Yugra, district autonome de Yamalo-Nenets.
Le centre du district fédéral est Ekaterinbourg.
COORDINATEUR de l’UFD; Kordan Alexander.
District fédéral de Sibérie: République d’Altaï, République de Tyva, République de Khakassia, Territoire d’Altaï, Territoire de Krasnoïarsk, Région d’Irkoutsk, Région de Kemerovo, Région de Novosibirsk, Région d’Omsk, Région de Tomsk.
Le centre du district fédéral est la ville de Novossibirsk.
COORDINATEUR DU DOSSIER : Tverskaya Valentina.
District fédéral d’Extrême-Orient:
République de Bouriatie, République de Sakha (Yakoutie), Kraï de Zabaykalsky, Kraï de Kamchatka, Kraï de Primorsky, Kraï de Khabarovsk, Région d’Amour, Région de Magadan, Région de Sakhaline, Région autonome juive, District autonome de Chukotka.
Le centre du district fédéral est la ville de Vladivostok.
COORDINATEUR DU BDP : Natalia Kharlampieva, Gavriil Androsov.
Poetry Festivals:
All-Russian festival of historical poetry Slovenskoe pole, Andrey Beniaminov, director
Days of Pushkin poetry and Russian culture, in Pushkinogorye, Igor Smolkin, chairman
International Festival of Poetry and Poetic Translations Banks of Friendship, Rostov region, Leonid Sever, director
International Slavic Forum Golden knight, Alexander Orlov, director
International Poetry Festival White cranes, Magomed Akhmetov, director
Literary translation contest Friendship of literature-friendship of peoples, Yuri Shcherbakov, chairman
Poetry Festival in the Palace named after Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev, Vladimir Sorochkin, chairman
Russian literary contest Festival The Crystal Spring, Andrey Frolov, director
Poetic Projects:
Astrakhan regional branch of the Union of Writers of Russia, Yuri Shcherbakov, chairman
Bryansk regional branch of the Union of Writers of Russia, Vladimir Sorochkin, chairman
Orlovsky house of writers, Andrey Frolov, director
Pskov regional organization of the Union of Writers of Russia, Igor Smolkin, chairman
Poets:
Alexander Dashko, poet, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, member of the Council of young writers at the Union of Writers of Russia (Ulyanovsk region)
Alexander Kerdan, poet, novelist, journalist, candidate of philosophy, doctor of Culturology, member of the Board of the Russian writers Union, coordinator of the Ural writers’ Association
Alexander Orlov
Andrey Beniaminov, poet, member of the Union of writers of Russia
Andrey Frolov
Dmitry Mizgulin
Elena Ilina
Evgueni Chigrin
Igor Smolkin
Leonid Sever
Magomed Akhmetov, poet, Chairman of the Union of writers of Dagestan, people’s poet of Dagestan
Svetlana Gritsenko, poet, Chairman of the Krasnodar regional branch of the Union of Writers of Russia
Vladimir Sorochkin
Yuri Shcherbakov
SAUDI ARABIA:
Saleh Zamanan (National Coordinator)
Poets:
Ali AlHazmi
Ahmed Al Mulla
SINGAPORE:
Poet:
Rafaat Haji Hamzah
SRI LANKA:
Shirani Rajapakse (National Coordinator)
Poets writing in Sinhala:
Horagala Vimalathissa Thero
Vipuli Niroshini Hettiarachchi
Poets writing in English:
Grace Wickremasinghe
Phusathi Liyanaarachchi
Jayani C. Senanayake
SYRIA:
Monzer Masri (National Coordinator)
Poet:
Hussein Habash (Kurdistan /Syria)
Maram Al Massri
Nezir Palo (Kurdistan /Syria)
TAJIKISTAN:
Abdukakhor Kosim (Tajikistan)
THAILAND:
Poet:
Chiranan Pitpreecha
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
Adel Khozam (National Coordinator)
Poetic Project:
Network Arabia Publishing, Faraj Al Akklouk, editor-in-chief
Poets:
Faraj Al Akklouk
Khalid Albudoor
Nujoom Alghanem
UZBEKISTAN:
Khosyat Rustam (National Coordinator)
VIETNAM:
Huu Viet (National Coordinator)
Poet:
Nguyen Quang Thieu, chairman of Writers Association of Vietnam
Nguyen Bao Chan
Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Mai Van Phan
YEMEN
Mohammed Al-Lawzi (National Coordinator)