‘First drafts are a pie where all the components have been cooked most of the way through, but you’ve gotta put it in the oven for it to become worthy of your guests.’ Wasafiri Wonders with KUCHENGA.

‘When I am writing I need to feel removed from my body and myself and what I think it knows. I want to enter what I call “the poetic mind”. When I am in that space, time moves differently.’  Wasafiri Wonders with Nick Makoha.

‘Ezili’s Mirrors is a song written in a time signature I am not used to, nor do I find it easy to follow. This time signature requires Tinsley’s reader-listeners to be at home in, and to be willingly led, by a temporal discordance that is black, queer and decolonial.’ Reviewed by Imani Robinson

Join Wasafiri at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road for an evening of poetry readings and discussion to celebrate the launch of its 98th issue 'Queer Worlds/Global Queer' and 35 years of publishing.

The prize was launched ten years ago to support new writers, with no limits on age, gender, nationality or background. In this birthday year we are excited to announce that we are increasing each prize sum from £300 to £1,000.

Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing is to release the first issue of its 35th year as a Kindle edition as well as print. Wasafiri General Issue 97, which features interviews with JJ Bola, Salima Hashmi, Ania Loomba and Suvir Kaul, as well as academic articles on the writings…