Middle Ground is a yearly series that invites literature festivals from around the world to HKW to explore literary and oraliture practices and networks. The project takes its name from Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe’s contemplation of the ‘middle ground’ as a position that is ‘aware of a future to head into and a past to fall back on; it is the home of doubt and indecision, of suspension of disbelief, of make-believe, of playfulness, of the unpredictable, of irony.’ The 2023 guest festival for Middle Ground: Interactions, Transactions, Reciprocities was PREE: Caribbean Writing, a literary festival and online platform based in Jamaica.