International Contemporary Writing
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Forna draws out the nuances of animal interactions whilst Okojie explores curious characters struggling to orient themselves in the universe in Matthew Lecznar’s double review.
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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 was shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017
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Belly Dancer Meets Hilāl as Horseman by Rushda Rafeek was shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017
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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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The winners of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2018 are Len Lukowski, Deirdre Shanahan and Daniella Shokoohi.
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Get tickets to see Bidisha in conversation with Nikesh Shukla
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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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