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In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 114: Windrush: Writing the Scandal, Gary Younge traces initial reporting of the Windrush scandal and its evolving media coverage, taking a critical look at how and why such journalism “enter[s] the media bloodstream and from there flow[s] into the body politic”.
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In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 114: Windrush: Writing the Scandal, Gary Younge traces initial reporting of the Windrush scandal and its evolving media coverage, taking a critical look at how and why such journalism “enter[s] the media bloodstream and from there flow[s] into the body politic”.
Wasafiri works with Editors at Large across South East Asia and Aotearoa New Zealand, and the Middle East. Each Editor at Large during their tenure writes a piece reflecting on an aspect of their literary locality. Here, Anna Knox brings us with her on a trail run round Waimapihi Reserve, on a journey through (re)naming, and histories of place and publishing, in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read Susie Thornberry’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.
LATEST ISSUE
Wasafiri 114, guest edited by Henghameh Saroukhani and John McLeod, considers Windrush: Writing the Scandal. The lead feature comes from Gary Younge, while our interviews for this issue are with Caryl Phillips and Hazel V Carby. You can also expect our usual range of fiction, art, life writing, poetry, and reviews.
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Editorial A Loss of Innocence
Lead Feature Gary Younge
Articles Claiming Space in a Hostile Environment: Journeys of Migration; Topographies of Exclusion: Refugees, Windrush, and the Politics of Space
Interviews Hazel Carby; Caryl Phillips
Art The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers
Fiction Ira Mathur
Poetry James Goodwin; Hannah Lowe; Momtaza Mehri; Roger Robinson
Life Writing Zita Holbourne
Review Essay: 'Penguinising' Black Britain
Reviews Natasha Brown, Assembly; Tony Fairweather, Twenty-Eight Pounds and Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story; Zaffar Kunial, England's Green
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LATEST NEWS
Wasafiri is excited to announce an afternoon of readings and conversation, Windrush: Writing the Scandal, which will take place live in partnership with Black Cultural Archives at their space on Windrush Square, London on 24 June 2023.
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.
