Archive: life writing

Read Shamini Sriskandarajah’s tender life writing piece ‘Hazel and Fiver’, shortlisted for the 2021 Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

Read Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, Wasafiri‘s Writer-in-Residence, on the books that made and unmade her, and why reading alone can’t save the world.

Read an exclusive extract from Kayo Chingonyi’s introduction to More Fiya, an anthology of Black British poetry.  

Irenosen Okojie on the innovation of African artists and entrepreneurs working for a better future, in the latest of Wasafiri‘s Global Dispatches.

Read Usha Rungoo’s essay ‘The Song of Life’, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 109, Nat Raha, Sabah Choudrey, C N Lester, and Roz Kaveney discuss how in the face of racial capitalism, literature and community can act as a lifeline of connection and creative expression for trans and non binary people.

Writer Divya Ghelani reflects on the meaning she gained from starting a book club devoted to BIPOC authors, accompanied by beautiful illustrations from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.

For the latest instalment of the Global Dispatches series, author Katherine Agyemaa Agard writes on loneliness, touch, and isolation, examining the ways in which communication and intimacy has shifted under the ongoing pandemic.

Elizabeth Chakrabarty on trauma, recovery and whiteness in academia, and how writing a novel created space for recovery in the wake of a racist hate crime.