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Review: How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
Leah Cowan reviews How to Love a Jamaican, the short story collection by Alexia Arthurs which explores the inner lives of Jamaicans and the diaspora in the US.
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Where the Weight Catches by Claire Lynn
Where the Weight Catches by Claire Lynn was shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017
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Belly Dancer Meets Hilāl as Horseman by Rushda Rafeek
Belly Dancer Meets Hilāl as Horseman by Rushda Rafeek was shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017
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Q&A with 2018 Caine Prize winner and Wasafiri author Makena Onjerika
Wasafiri interviews Makena Onjerika, winner of The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018. Her winning story ‘Fanta Blackcurrant’ was first published in Issue 89 of Wasafiri.
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LATEST ISSUE
Issue 95
Editorial Rukhsana Yasmin
Interviews with Jennifer Makumbi, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Nuar Alsadir
Articles Making Readers: BookTrust’s Multicultural Programming in the Creative-Economy Context by John Coleman, Rewriting Eve: Spoken Word Poetry as Feminist Narrative by Julie Xuan
Art Sonia Khurana - The Contemporary Art of Relationality
Fiction by Deepa Annapara, Rupam Baoni, Lauren Kosa, Revathi Krishnaswamy
Poetry by Michelle Bonczek, Olly Mort, Cato Pedder, Sasenarine Persaud
Reviews: Eva Rask Knudsen & Ulla Rahbek In Search of the Afropolitan; Francis Combes, ed Poets and the Algerian War; Gloria Ifill Echoes of the Past; Christina Sharpe In the Wake: On Blackness and Being; Ann-Margaret Lim Kingston Buttercup; Hilal Chouman Limbo Beirut: Emerging Voices from the Middle East; and more...
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NEWS & EVENTS
Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2018 shortlist announced
The Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2018 shortlisted is announced. This year the judges were Malika Booker, Elleke Boehmer and Kerry Young.
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Wasafiri at Ilkley Literature Festival 2018
Find out which events Wasafiri will be present at during the Ilkley Literature Festival 2018
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Wasafiri appoints inaugural Writer in Residence Bidisha
The inaugural salon promises to be a space for cultural exchange, critical responses to literature and an open, shared place, either online or live, for debate and lively discussion.
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