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The author of The Adventures of China Iron reflects on climate change, how nature has no borders, and the fight for our collective futures in an essay celebrating our special issue on Human Rights Cultures.

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.

Thomas Glave, author and Professor of Creative Writing, on writing through lockdown, and his new workshop series…

Shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.

The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – judged by Andrew Cowan, Tishani Doshi, Hirsh Sawhney, and Christie Watson – is opening its doors for 2021. 

Shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Life Writing category.

Rishi Dastidar – poet, and chair of Spread The Word  – speaks to four past and present Young People’s Laureates – Caleb Femi, Cecilia Knapp, Theresa Lola, and Momtaza Mehri – about their role and representing London.

Shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.

Announcing a series of online writing workshops, tutored by our Writer-in-Residence Jennifer Wong, and our Associate Editor Thomas Glave.