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Unfamiliar Creatures by Avni Doshi
Published as part of the Queen Mary Wasafiri Global Dispatches series, the 2020 Booker-Prize-shortlisted writer of Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi, reflects on Childcare and Covid-19.
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Unfamiliar Creatures by Avni Doshi
Published as part of the Queen Mary Wasafiri Global Dispatches series, the 2020 Booker-Prize-shortlisted writer of Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi, reflects on Childcare and Covid-19.
Jennifer Wong Appointed as Wasafiri’s Writer-in-Residence
The Hong Kong-born, Oxford-based poet, writer, and translator – most recently of the collection, 回家 Letters Home – joins Wasafiri.
Within and After: Announcing the QM Wasafiri Global Dispatches Series
Sending dispatches from around the world – writing from Tasmania and South Africa, the UAE and Argentina, England and Canada – six writers reflect on themes of Climate, Justice, Childcare, Racism, Future, and Isolation—all in the context of Covid-19.
LATEST ISSUE
Issue 104: Human Rights Cultures
Guest Edited by Billy Kahora and Zoe Norridge
Editorial What Is Seen and What Is Said
Interviews Claver Irakoze and Ludmila da Silva Catela, Historias Desobedientes, Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Articles Nunca Invisibles: Insurgent Memory and Self-representation by Female Ex-combatants in Colombia; Photographing Loss: Drawing on Argentine Photography in Rwanda
Art Scale and Silence: Visual Arts and Symbolic Repair in Colombia and Kenya; The Sigh of Sorrow and the Force of Art: On the Work of Erika Diettes
Fiction Daniel Ferreira, Inés Garland, Alain-Jules Hirwa
Poetry María Teresa Andruetto, Mary Grueso Romero, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, Yolande Mukagasana, Phyllis Muthoni, Natacha Muziramakenga
Life Writing Juliane Okot Bitek: Reconnecting through Poetry after War
Review Essay Narrativising and Archiving Protest in Kenya
Reviews Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron; Olivier Dabène, Street Art and Democracy in Latin America; Linda Melvern, Intent to Deceive: Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi; Peter Kimani, ed., Nairobi Noir
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LATEST NEWS
We’re Hiring …
We’re looking for experienced professionals with legal, marketing, fundraising and institutional adminstration expertise to join our board of trustees. Closing date: Monday 19 October 2020
Welcoming Vicky Unwin as the new Chair to Wasafiri’s Board of Trustees
A key member of the original organisation that lead to the magazine’s founding in 1984, Unwin returns to Wasafiri 35 years later.
Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize partners with The Good Literary Agency
We’re delighted to announce an additional prize that will be awarded to this year’s shortlist.