International Contemporary Writing
Read Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa’s moving and joyous account of teaching writing through dance and movement in Barbados, and her nuanced articulations of culture and identity, plus an exclusive poem.
Read an excerpt from an interview between Will Harris and Jennifer Wong, first published in Wasafiri 111: Translating Lives.
In the latest of Wasafiri‘s Global Dispatches series, Dr Swati Arora reflects on CA Davids’ essay, answering with a piece that examines India’s growing Hindu supremacy, the communal language of protest, and how the state’s rhetoric around the Covid-19 pandemic can shore up systems of oppression.
Gloria Wekker, author of White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race, talks with Elif Lootens and Sigrid Corry about decolonisation and racism in the Netherlands.
Wasafiri is excited to announce that the inaugural Wasafiri Essay Prize for Early Career Researchers has been awarded to Antony Huen for his astute, important, and creatively engaged article, titled ‘The “old Hong Kong” and “a Gold-sifting Bird”: Hong Kong and Chinese Ekphrasis in Contemporary British Poetry’.
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.
Meet this year’s winners – Kate Carne (Fiction), Anne O’Brien (Life Writing), and Dipanjali Roy (Poetry) – who will receive £1,000, publication in Wasafiri 109, and mentoring from Nikesh Shukla of The Good Literary Agency.
Wasafiri and Founder Susheila Nasta congratulate the magazine’s longtime friend, contributor, and Advisory Board member.
‘Abdulrazak’s support for Wasafiri as a little magazine has been steadfast. His work continues to chime closely with Wasafiri’s original mission…’
Fifteen writers across three genres have been shortlisted for the prestigious and uniquely international Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, this year judged by Hirsh Sawhney (Fiction), Christie Watson (Life Writing), and Tishani Doshi (Poetry), and chaired by Andrew Cowan. Shortlistees for the…
