International Contemporary Writing
FEATURED ARTICLE
Two boys get suspended from school. It’s at that moment their troubles really begin… A short story by Rafael Gamero who is an Assistant Professor of English at Shaw University. His fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Caribbean Writer, Drunk Monkeys, Litro Magazine, and others.
READ MOREFEATURES
The Journey by Qaisra Shahraz New Delhi and Kot Badal Khan, India; Lahore, Pakistan, August 1967 Poor Raju was having the same dream again. In it, he was once more the boy he had been, aged seven years old. “Water, water!” he demanded in his child’s piping voice, tugging at the man’s arm. A hand cla…
READ MORE
Letter to Uncle Sam by Saadat Hasan Manto Saadat Hasan Manto was an Indo-Pakistani writer, playwright and author considered among the greatest writers of short stories in South Asian history. Here we reproduce one of his letters to Uncle Sam i.e. the USA by kind permission of the Universal Poetries…
READ MORE
Neel Mukherjee in conversation with Anjali Joseph about his latest novel A State of Freedom By Anjali Joseph I’ve known Neel Mukherjee for about eight years. A mutual friend introduced us in Bombay a couple of years after his first novel, Past Continuous, was published in India and had gone on to wi…
READ MORE
LATEST ISSUE
Fiction by Kimberly Blaeser and Eric Gansworth
Poems by Heid E Erdrich, Joan Kane, Craig Santos Perez, James Thomas Stevens
Interviews with James Mackay and Jeremy Carnes
Articles on Anishinaabeskinuk: Writing Over Skins, ‘We aren’t like dogs:’ Battling Blood Quantum, and Literary Activism and Violence against Native North American Women
Art Essay on Places to Stand: Art after the American Indian Movement
Reviews of Louise Erdrich's LaRose, Orlando White's LETTERRS, Joy Harjo's Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, Deborah L Madsen's, ed The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature, Billy J Stratton's, ed Stories of Native Presence and Survivance in Commemoration of the 151st Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre
Wasafiri encourages readers and writers to travel the world via the word. For over three decades, we have created a dynamic platform for mapping new landscapes in contemporary international writing featuring a diverse range of voices from across the UK and beyond.
The Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017 is now closed for entries. Sign up to our newsletter for updates on the shortlist and award ceremony.
NEWS & EVENTS
Wasafiri is hiring a new Administration and Programmes manager to work part-time.
READ MORE
Exiled Writers Ink welcomes you to an evening of Poetry and Prose with: Miriam Frank, Dumi Senda, Shirin Razavian and Mahmood Jamal on Monday 7th August at 7.30pm.
READ MORE
Ingrid Persaud from Trinidad and Tobago has won this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Sweet Sop’. The story was chosen from the five regional winning stories in this year’s Prize which received a record 6,000 entries.
READ MOREGALLERY
FUNDED BY
