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Vecchia Bambina by Jailan Zayan
Read Jailan Zayan’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Life Writing category.
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FEATURED
Read Jailan Zayan’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Life Writing category.
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Read Jailan Zayan’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Life Writing category.
Read Jessie Berry-Porter’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Life Writing category.
In the newest instalment of Wasafiri Wonders, we speak with the winner of the 2022 Wasafiri Essay Prize, Rachel Bolle-Debessay, about her favourite recent releases, writing habits, and upcoming work.
LATEST ISSUE
Wasafiri 113 remembers author and professor Sara Suleri with touching tributes from Kamila Shamsie, Amina Yaqin, and others. Also featured in the issue are the winners of the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and the 2022 Essay Prize, interviews with Lorna Goodison, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Sarah Booker, plus our usual range of fiction, life writing, poetry, and reviews.
Editorial The Sense of an Ending
Interviews Lorna Goodison; Cristin Rivera Garza and Sarah Booker
Articles Dub Poetry and Theatre in Conversation: The Development of a Performance-Driven Aesthetic; Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future?
Art The Remains of the Day: Re-tracing Archival Art Through Dayanita Singh and Ali Kazim
Fiction Sylee Gore
Poetry Hasti; Shereen Akhtar; Hannah Roche; Shahilla Shariff
Life Writing Rebecca Tamás; Nadine Monem; Claudia Trifia
Review Essay: 'An Act of Politicised Attention': War and the Writer-Witness
Reviews Preti Taneja, Aftermath; Qudsia Akhtar, Khamoshi; Paul Madden, Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry
and more...
Editorial
The Sense of an Ending
Sana Goyal
Feature
Remembering Sara Suleri
Kamila Shamsie; Amina Yaqin; Moni Mohsin; Ankhi Mukherjee; and Sarvat Hasin
Articles
Dub Poetry and Theatre in Conversation: The Development of a Performance-Driven Aesthetic
Rachel Bolle-Debessay
Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future?
Stevie Marsden
Life Writing
Season
Rebecca Tamás
Salt Prints
Nadine Monem
Uncommon Usage
Claudia Trifia
Interviews
Radical Gratitude in Poetry: An Interview with Lorna Goodison
Essah Cozett Diaz
Writing with Others: In Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza and Sarah Booker
Sohini Basak
Art
The Remains of the Day: Re-tracing Archival Art Through Dayanita Singh and Ali Kazim
Sharanya
Fiction
Cloud Archive
Sylee Gore
Poetry
I Have Fallen From My Dream of Progress
Hasti
American Creature
Shereen Akhtar
The Seals at Morte Point
Hannah Roche
Permanence; Buried Cry
Shahilla Shariff
Review Essay
'An Act of Politicised Attention': War and the Writer-Witness
What Have You Left Behind? - Bushra al-Maqtari, trans. by Sawad Hussain
Lucky Breaks - Yevgenia Belorusets, trans. by Eugene Ostashevsky
Five Days Untold - Badr Ahmad, trans. by Christiaan James
Theodora Danek
Reviews
The Earthspinner – Anuradha Roy
Anahit Behrooz
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories – Jamil Jan Kochai
Shamima Noor
Out of the Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race – Esi Edugyan
Translating Myself and Others – Jhumpa Lahiri
Franklin Nelson
Aftermath – Preti Taneja
Haider Shahbaz
Exhumation: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra – Leena Dhingra
Devindra Kohli
Khamoshi – Qudsia Akhtar
Hiding to Nothing – Anita Pati
Suna Afshan
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women – Wayétu Moore
How Beautiful We Were – Imbolo Mbue
Shayera Dark
Our Wives Under the Sea – Julia Armfield
there are more things – Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Riddhi Dastidar
The Kids – Hannah Lowe
Padmaja Battani
Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry – Paul Maddern, ed
Queer Life, Queer Love – Matt Bates, Golnoosh Nour, Sarah Beal, and Kate Beal, eds
Liz Breslin
LATEST NEWS
Wasafiri is excited to announce that Writer-in-Residence Durre Shahwar’s final workshop, Autofiction: Bearing Witness, will take place live in Cardiff, Wales on 15 April 2023. Book your ticket now.
An opportunity is available for a PhD student based at a CHASE-affiliated institution to join Wasafiri on an editorial placement. Application deadline: Midnight, 19 March 2023.
Wasafiri is excited to announce that the 2022 Wasafiri Essay Prize has been awarded to Rachel Bolle-Debessay for her essay, ‘Dub Poetry and Theatre in Conversation: The Development of a Performance-Driven Aesthetic’. The 2023 Essay Prize is open until 31 May 2023.