
The Claws Come First by Mónica Ibarra Parle
Read Mónica Ibarra Parle’s short story ‘The Claws Come First’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Read Mónica Ibarra Parle’s short story ‘The Claws Come First’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Read Riddhi Dastidar’s short story ‘Fuck Marry Kill’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Read this excerpt from Monica Ali’s Love Marriage, first published in Wasafiri Issue 109, and available to read online for the month of March.
Read an exclusive extract of Bina Shah’s short story ‘The Book Smuggler’, first published in Issue 108: House of Wisdom, and available for free until the end of January.
Read an exclusive extract from Scholastique Mukasonga’s new novel – translated by Melanie Mauthner and published by Daunt Books – to mark our special issue on Human Rights Cultures.
Shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.
An exclusive excerpt from Ivan Vladislavić’s new novel, The Distance, narrated jointly by two brothers, Joe and Branko, as they unearth memories of their childhood in Apartheid South Africa, in 1970s suburban Pretoria, published as part of our online coverage on Writing Whiteness.
‘Listen, habibi, when NASA gives you that application form, lead with this. ‘Dear NASA,’ said Basil, now putting on a voice with a higher pitch than his own, ‘the moon reminds me a bit of Dubai.’ From Naji Bakhti’s first book about a young boy coming of age in post-civil-war Beirut.
Read an exclusive extract from Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, contributor to Wasafiri 102, Japan: Literatures of Remembering.