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Shash Trevett, winner of a Northern Writer’s Award for Poetry and author of From a Borrowed Land, sits down to talk with the five nominees for the Felix Dennis Prize for First Collection: Caleb Femi, Cynthia Miller, Ralf Webb, Alice Hiller, and Holly Pester.
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Shash Trevett, winner of a Northern Writer’s Award for Poetry and author of From a Borrowed Land, sits down to talk with the five nominees for the Felix Dennis Prize for First Collection: Caleb Femi, Cynthia Miller, Ralf Webb, Alice Hiller, and Holly Pester.
Meet this year’s winners – Kate Carne (Fiction), Anne O’Brien (Life Writing), and Dipanjali Roy (Poetry) – who will receive £1,000, publication in Wasafiri 109, and mentoring from Nikesh Shukla of The Good Literary Agency.
Louise Kennedy speaks to Wasafiri, ahead of her event at the Cheltenham Festival, about her debut collection The End of the World is a Cul de Sac, her writing process, what she’s been reading, and what comes next.
LATEST ISSUE
Wasafiri Issue 107
Editorial In the Wake of the Wake of the Wake
Interviews Paul Mendez, Niven Govinden, Ivan Vladislavić, Arundhati Roy
Articles J M Coetzee and African Studies; Yvonne Vera and the Craft of Writing; Of Women's Bonds: Female Friendships and Feminist Ethics of Care in Tabish Khair's Just Another Jihadi Jane
Art Painting the Sea and Sky; Pandemic Vicissitudes and Contemporary Art in Singapore
Fiction Michelle Hamadache, Karina Lickorish Quinn
Poetry Hala Alyan, Cecilia Knapp, Shakespeare Okuni, Celia A Sorhaindo
Life Writing Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, S J Kim
Review Essay Writing Watersheds: Climate, Prejudice, and Paranoia
Reviews Women Dreaming, Salma; The Orchid Folios, Mok Zining; Igifu, Scholastique Mukasonga; Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow, Saeed Yousef; Postcolonial Disaster, Pallavi Rastogi; Travelling while Black, Nanjala Nyabola; Antiemetic for Homesickness, Romalyn Ante
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LATEST NEWS
Announcing Poetics of Home, an online festival celebrating Chinese diaspora poets taking place 22 September – 6 October 2021.
Our new Writer-in-Residence for 2021-22 is Jessica Johannesson, a writer and climate activist whose debut novel How We Are Translated was published in February 2021.
Announcing a new series of free online events, Transformative Testimonies: Writing and Human Rights, taking place 17 – 23 May, 2021.
