http://www.wasafiri.org/ Wasafiri en-uk Copyright 2012 Wasafiri Mon, 6 Feb 2012 04:22:37 GMT Throughout 2012, writers from around the world will take up residence in A Room for London on the bank of the River Thames and take part in a series of monthly writings and recordings inspired by the space and the city below http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=188 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT The collection In Search of Peace is a culmination of years of work, showing Nepalese people in their everyday search for peace. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=192 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Launched in 2010, the annual two-day Karachi Literature Festival is open to all and free. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=191 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT An international showcase of the best in writing and literature development in the UK Norwich, 9-13 March, 2012 http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=190 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT South Asian Fiction: Contemporary Transformations seminar at the University of London Union with Florian Stadtler on 25 January at 5.30pm http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=185 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=187 Mon, 9 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT The Summer School on Black Europe, an intensive two week course offered in Amsterdam, is accepting applications for its 5th annual course http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=186 Mon, 9 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT The Man Asian Literary Prize will be holding the shortlist announcement for the 2011 Prize at a special event at Asia House, London, on 10 January 2012. Chair Judge Razia Iqbal will announce the shortlist at 10am in London (6pm Hong Kong) which will be broadcast live online at www.manasianliteraryprize.org http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=184 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Join the Poetry Library to discuss the books shortlisted for the 2011 TS Eliot Prize, described as 'the world's top poetry award'. Admission is free but booking is necessary. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=181 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Join Susheila Nasta for a talk on Mulk Raj Anand and Asian Bloomsbury in New Delhi on Wednesday 14 December http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=182 Fri, 9 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=183 Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Mimi Khalvati launches her latest book of poetry, New and Selected Poems at Poetry East in London on 10 December http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=172 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT 5x15 curate an evening in celebration of Amnesty's Write for Rights Letter-writing campaign. 5 speakers come together and are given 15 minutes each to tell true stories of passion, obsession and adventure recounted live with just two rules: no scripts and only fifteen minutes each. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=175 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Beyond the Frame is touring an expanded twelve panel facsimile exhibition to seven cities in India in 2011 - 2012 http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=174 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=173 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=179 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Autograph ABP presents the third in a series of symposia associated with the establishment of Autograph's Archive for Culturally Diverse Photography. FREE but must be booked. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=169 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT The seminar series, which will run from November 2011 to April 2012, will enable critics of South Asian literature to locate and reflect on new concerns and developments in the field, and their implications for postcolonial reading practices. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=171 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT The Conference will explore new approaches and methods to conceptualising and politicising citizenship through discussing struggles, contestations and challenges to citizenship around the world. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=178 Wed, 2 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Do writers have a responsibility, particularly in these troubled times, to reflect and comment on the society in which they live? Is this notion of responsibility a valid concept or an imposition: meaningless and at odds with the integrity of the writer and their work? Is it perverse to view 'the writer' as some kind of shaman with unique insight and responsibility? Why does contemporary British fiction seems so little engaged with contemporary British political life? http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=177 Wed, 2 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Peepal Tree Press is organsing a two-day conference, Narrating the Caribbean Nation: A Celebration of Literature and Orature, which will be held on 14-15th April 2012 at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. The conference will celebrate the Silver Anniversary of Peepal Tree Press and highlight the contribution of its own authors and other Caribbean and Black British writers to contemporary world literature. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=180 Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Join Spread the Word and special guest, comedian Lucy Porter, at a networking event for writers. Bring along a joke to read out - the best (and worst) will receive a hilarious prize. Mix and mingle with fellow writers over a glass of wine and chortle off the winter blues. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=176 Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Join playwright and screenwriter Ade Solanke on her well regarded practical one day workshop exploring how first and second generation diaspora writers can draw on both their lived experience of Britain and their cultural memory of elsewhere in creating unique stories. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=166 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT Agent Seminar & One to One with Isobel Dixon Date: 26/11/2011 Times: 10am-12pm: seminar, with afternoon 20 min one to o Prices: £50 / £40 conc Location: Writers' Centre Norwich Book your place on this popular literature development workshop and explore the ins and outs of the literary agent's world with Blake Friedmann's Isobel Dixon. Book online now Description Have you approached agents but had no success? Would you like to improve your chances? Book your place on this popular literature development workshop and explore the ins and outs of the literary agent's world with Blake Friedmann's Isobel Dixon. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=165 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT Significant Voices: The artist Yinka Shonibare MBE talks about his work and the cultural legacy of postcolonial Britain to Ekow Eshun, writer and cultural commentator at Iniva on 19 October http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=148 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT This London-based forum will discuss dialogue between civilisations through poetry and the impact of Arabic and world poetry on human communication through the ages. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=160 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=158 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=156 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=155 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=154 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=153 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT The day will consider the historical pattern of treatment by the police towards Black Britons, the racialised nature of the movement of demonstrations from Brixton to Toxteth in 1981 and the interpretations in the media. Panel members from a wide professional and social background will discuss the catalyst of the wave across North African and the UK. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=151 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=150 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT The George Padmore Institute in association with the Black Cultural Archives, wil be screening Mangrove Nine, directed by Fanco Rosso and produced with John La Rose. The screening presents the original full version of the documentary and will be introduce by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Paul Reid. This will be followed by a discussion led by Ian Macdonald QC. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=149 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT You enter the crowd at St Pancras and hear voices around you. Do you want to know more? Do you wish you hadn't heard that? Listening on personal headsets, Audio Obscura immerses its audience in the stories and secrets of a busy station concourse. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=136 Fri, 5 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=145 Mon, 1 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=143 Mon, 1 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT Call for papers http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=128 Mon, 1 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT This tour launches Jean Binta Breeze's new Book-DVD Third World Girl along with poems, tunes and lyrics responding to a theme of revolution from some of the finest spoken word performers. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=116 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT Join Ananda Devi, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Tabish Khair at the Festival of Asian Literature, Asia House, 25 May 2011 for 'Making Waves - Connections Across the Indian Ocean', and to launch the Indian Oceans issue of Wasafiri http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=96 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=105 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT Join Wasafiri's Deputy Editor, Sharmilla Beezmohun, at the London Book Fair to discuss the future of diversity in publishing http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=95 Thu, 7 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT Call For Entries for AFROEUROPE@NS III: CULTURES AND IDENTITIES. CÁDIZ, 28-30 SEPTEMBER 2011 http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=89 Tue, 8 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT Stuck for ideas this Christmas? Twelve writers and journalists offer their recommendations for the festive season. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=81 Wed, 8 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT Kwame Kwei-Armah hosts an evening of spoken word, film, discussion and Lover's Rock music to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the New Cross Fire. With contributions from El Crisis, Zena Edwards, Professor Gus John, Janet Kay, Courttia Newland, Alex Pascall OBE, Menelik Shabazz and Carroll Thompson http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=83 Tue, 7 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT Enjoy one of four creative writing workshops hosted by Open University Creative Writing tutors, exploring themes from the exhibition 'Journey through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead'. Saturday 4 December 2010 and Saturday 29 January 2011. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=80 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Eight Poets will take part in a multilingual and mulitmedia performance at the Amethyst, Chennai, 15 December. The workshop will be held at the inauguation of 'Poetry with Prakriti', a two-week long poetry festival organised annually in Chennai by the Prakriti Foundation. The group of poets will showcase the same performance in Pune as part of the Open Space at Kala Chhaya on 18 December 2010. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=79 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Live Poetry by internationally renowned art critic, reviewer, poet, fiction writer, harmonica player and practicing artist Richard Dyer. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=78 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Europe House, the London Office of the European Parliament and the European Commission, is now open, offering a wonderful new free space for events. Throwing open its doors to London, the UK and the whole continent, Europe House would like to invite you to two free inaugural literary events to see and celebrate this most international of spaces. Come and enjoy a polyphonic experience of poetry and Pinter in translation at this most elegant of house-warming parties - for, in the words of George Szirtes's poem to commemorate the opening of Europe House, 'Open the door. This house is yours. Rejoice.' http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=77 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Richmond Upon Thames Literature Festival. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=75 Fri, 5 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Sign up to a creative writing workshop with Wasafiri at the British Museum. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=68 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Poetry Reading at The Travel Bookshop on Saturday 25th September http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=69 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival is on from Wednesday 15th September to Sunday 19th September. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=67 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT A major international conference 'Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950', including Shyama Perera, Meera Syal, Elleke Boehmer and Susheila Nasta among others. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=58 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT A new festival of the spoken word opens on Friday 22 - Sunday 24 October 2010, Southbank Centre, London http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=70 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Book readings, book signings, 'meet-the-author' opportunities, as well as talks and discussions between South African & Indian writers will bring together two diverse cultures. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=66 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Tilt promises to bring you spoken word at the tipping point. Join them for a trio of spoken word events at the Kings Place Festival on 9 September. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=62 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=71 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Trestle Theatre in collaboration with Blindeye will tour Burn My Heart from September to November. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=64 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Jane Elizabeth Martin and Maggie Norton will be reading their poetry for the Lumen Poetry Series on Tuesday 9 November in Tavistock Place, London. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=73 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Richard Dyer will be reading his poetry, with Pascale Petit, Maj Abrahamsson and Lee Rouke at The Betsey Trotwood on Tuesday evening, 9 November 2010. The event is free and all are welcome. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=72 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Running across three weeks, the 15 unique events commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea will each draw upon the rich artistic, filmic and musical heritage of West London and will celebrate the cultural diversity within the borough. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=63 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Organised by the curators of the renowned African Writers' Evening, AFRICAN BOOK MARKET is a ground-breaking FREE event at the Poetry Cafe, London http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=61 Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT Join the nominees of the 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing in a series of talks and events across London from 2nd - 7th July. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=57 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT A festival of African literature, music, film and more, taking place in Cajarac, France, towards the end of July. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=59 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT Proposals are invited on papers for The South Asian Short Story, a forthcoming conference at the University of Kent, Canterbury, 10 September 2010 http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=60 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT The London Review Bookshop will hold its second World Literature Weekend in venues across central London from 18 - 20 June. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=56 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT This event at Kings Place on Monday 7 June explores the nature of oral epic poetry from Homer to the martial epics of the Zulus. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=55 Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Asia House Festival of Asian Literature is on from the 5-27th May 2010. See writers such as Kamila Shamsie, Hirsh Sawhney and Moniza Alvi. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=53 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT Bernardine Evaristo will be launching a new version of her prose-novel-in-verse, Lara, at the Brixton Library on Wednesday 5 May at 7pm. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=54 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT The International PEN festival, FREE THE WORD, opens on 14 April with James Kelman, Pauline Melville, Nawal El Saadawi, Derek Walcott and many more ... http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=52 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Jewish Book Week begins on 27 February with an eclectic programme and special offers for Wasafiri readers http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=49 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Leading female authors Diana Evans and Bernardine Evaristo will be discussing their work with Daneet Steffens, Editor of Myslexia on 8 March at Rich Mix in London. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=50 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Acclaimed Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o will be in conversation about his new book Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir. Wasafiri has two free tickets to give away. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=51 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Lit Sutra, the British Council's programme of literary activities in India, continues into 2010 with Ian Rankin, Michael Frayn, Claire Tomalin, Geoff Dyer and Shrabani Basu http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=43 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT Exiled Writers Ink presents poets Alev Adil, Fatima Hagi, Ziba Karbassi and Shereen Pandit for an evening of poetry at the Idea Store, Whitechapel at 6.30pm http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=48 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT A free exhibition of paintings by Aubrey Williams at the Museum of Liverpool runs from 15 January until 11 April 2010. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=47 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT The summer programme of poetry courses, workshops, groups and talks in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Exeter, Bath, Bristol, Dorchester, Newcastle, Durham, Grasmere, Cambridge, Norwich and online will begin soon. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=46 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT A poetry show touring throughout England until April features Colette Bryce, Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott. Colette Bryce is featured in the upcoming Wasafiri issue Ireland: Texts and Contexts whilst Daljit Nagra's poetry featured in issue 35, Spring 2002 of Wasafiri. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=45 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT A major survey of the artist Chris Ofili's career from the mid 1990s to today. Read a review of his 1998 touring exhibition in issue 29 of Wasafiri - the year he won the Turner Prize. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=44 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT Jackie Kay will be joined by a host of acclaimed poets to celebrate the work of Adrian Mitchell at the South Bank, 9 December. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=42 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT For the finale of Wasafiri's 25th birthday celebrations, come and join us at a spectacular day of events with some very special guests from around the world. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=32 Mon, 3 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT Kiran Desai will be talking to John Mullan on Tuesday 3 November at The Guardian Review Book Club following her appearance at Wasafiri's 25th anniversary celebrations on Saturday. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=41 Sat, 1 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT This year the Caine Prize for African Writing celebrates 10 years of the prestigious short story prize with a seven date, UK-wide tour. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=39 Sat, 1 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT The 14th Tale is a free flowing mellifluous narrative that tells the hilarious exploits of a natural born mischeif growing from the clay streets of Nigeria to roof tops in Dublin, and finally to London. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=40 Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT Guest editors of Wasafiri, Suman Gupta, Bryan Cheyette and Bernardine Evaristo discussed the raison d'être behind creating a special issue of the magazine and reflected on how to forge new connections in Chinese, Jewish/Postcolonial, African-European and Black British writing. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=37 Thu, 21 May 2009 19:00:00 GMT Why do some books impact so forcefully on our reading and writing lives? In what ways do they return to us? http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=36 Mon, 18 May 2009 18:30:00 GMT To support the Oxford University symposium celebrating the life and work of major African writer, Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987), Wasafiri hosted a round table discussion entitled 'Beyond the House of Hunger: Literature and Transgression, 1984-2009'. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=35 Sun, 17 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT Wasafiri and the British Council, the UK's international organisation for cultural relations, in association with the Nehru Centre, were delighted to host an evening of Indian poetry. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=34 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:30:00 GMT Wasafiri Editor Professor Susheila Nasta chaired a discussion at the London Book Fair, as part of the British Council's festival of Indian literature supporting India as Market Focus country at the London Book Fair. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=33 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT The 20th anniversary in 2004 saw the publication of a special birthday issue along with a range of commemorative events. http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=38 Thu, 1 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT