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On ‘Crying Clowns’ and ‘Scandalous Deviants’: An Interview with Sang Young Park and Anton Hur
Read this interview with Sang Young Park and Anton Hur, writer and translator of Love in the Big City.
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On ‘Crying Clowns’ and ‘Scandalous Deviants’: An Interview with Sang Young Park and Anton Hur
Read this interview with Sang Young Park and Anton Hur, writer and translator of Love in the Big City.
Hazel and Fiver by Shamini Sriskandarajah
Read Shamini Sriskandarajah’s tender life writing piece ‘Hazel and Fiver’, shortlisted for the 2021 Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Craft Episode 5 Transcript: Rob Nixon
Welcome to Craft. Each month, we bring you one international writer talking about one of their works for about thirty minutes. This month, Rob Nixon details the personal, political, and ecological crises that inspired his book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Rob is the Currie C a…
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Guest edited by Andil Gosine and Nalini Mohabir, Wasafiri 110: Afterlives of Indenture explores the legacy of indentured workers across the Indo-Caribbean, and the diasporic experience. With fiction from Ingrid Persuad and Stephen Narain, a conversation between Richard Fung and Ramabai Espinet, life writing from Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, and more, Wasafiri 110 is testament to the legacy that indentureship leaves, and the ways in which affected communities process and reclaim their histories.
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Editorial Afterlives of Indenture
Interviews Richard Fung and Ramabai Espinet, Basdeo Panday
Articles Afterlives of Chinese Indenture and Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda; Im/possibly Black: The Coolie Poetics of Bazodee
Art Kelly Sinnapah Mary’s Quarantine
Fiction Stephen Narain, Ingrid Persaud
Poetry Linzey Corridon, Faizal Deen, Kaie Kellough, Ann-Margaret Lim, Shani Mootoo, Shivanee Ramlochan
Life Writing Maria del Pilar Kaladeen: Conversing with Gina Miller; Kevin Jared Hosein: The Ghosts of Brechin Castle
Review Essay Memory, Inheritance: Three Recent Works on the Afterlives of Indenture
Reviews Rajiv Mohabir, Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir; Andre Bagoo, The Undiscovered Country; Grace Aneiza Ali, Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora; Celeste-Marie Bernier et. al., Inside the Invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom in the Life and Works of Lubaina Himid
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From ‘Prayer & Breath’: A Short Film
Watch a short film interpretation of Nadine Aisha Jassat’s poem ‘Prayer & Breath’, first published in Issue 108: House Wisdom, filmed and edited by Jinling Wu.
Beyond Protest: Writing for Action
Wasafiri is excited to announce ‘Beyond Protest: Writing for Action’, an online writing workshop tutored by our Writer-in-Residence Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, taking place on 26 January, from 7-9pm, on Zoom.
Poetics of Home: A Chinese Diaspora Poetry Festival
Announcing Poetics of Home, an online festival celebrating Chinese diaspora poets taking place 22 September – 6 October 2021.