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Where the Weight Catches by Claire Lynn
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
Belly Dancer Meets Hilāl as Horseman by Rushda Rafeek was shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017
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Q&A with 2018 Caine Prize winner and Wasafiri author Makena Onjerika
Wasafiri interviews Makena Onjerika, winner of The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018. Her winning story ‘Fanta Blackcurrant’ was first published in Issue 89 of Wasafiri.
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Review: At The End of the Century by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Lucy Popescu reviews Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s posthumous selection of seventeen of her stories written between 1963 and 2013, ‘At The End Of The Century’.
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LATEST ISSUE
Issue 94: Summer 2018
Editorial Susheila Nasta
Windrush Women special section including Beryl Gilroy, Grace Nichols, Janice Shinebourne, Malika Booker, Hannah Lowe, Jay Bernard, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Grace Aneiza Ali, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Gemma Weekes
Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017 winners Julie Abrams-Humphires, Ndinda Kioko, Mehran Waheed
Interview Brian Chikwava with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Articles Francesca Mussi
Art Jorge Orteiza, Eduardo Chillida
Life Writing by Adnan Sarwar, Julie Abrams-Humphries
Fiction by Ndinda Kioko, Sujit Saraf, Monique McIntosh, Niala Maharaj
Poetry by Hannah Lowe, Mehran Waheed
Reviews: Shiva Rahbaran Iranian Cinema Uncensored; Bruce King From New National to World Literature; Zilka Joseph Sharp Blue Search of Flame; César Vallejo Scales; Bashir Abu-Manneh The Palestinian Novel; Shara McCallum Madwoman; and more...
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NEWS & EVENTS
Wasafiri appoints inaugural Writer in Residence Bidisha
The inaugural salon promises to be a space for cultural exchange, critical responses to literature and an open, shared place, either online or live, for debate and lively discussion.
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Part-time editorial and administrative placement opportunity for CHASE student
Wasafiri is currently offering a part-time editorial and administrative placement opportunity to a CHASE student
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Wasafiri launches its special issue ‘Refuge’ at Tate Exchange
To celebrate the launch of our special issue ‘Refuge’, Wasafiri will be hosting an evening long event at the Tate Modern. In a time of inflammatory headlines and damaging political rhetoric, this issue, guest edited by Bidisha, brings together a powerful roster of writers and artists to counter the populist narrative.
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