2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize Opens for Submissions
We are pleased to be opening the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for submissions until 30 June 2023.
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We’re Hiring: Digital Co-Ordinator
Wasafiri is hiring a dynamic new Digital Co-Ordinator to join our team.
A ‘Balanced’ History of Empire: Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireland and Other Colonial Anti-Colonial Histories
In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education, Kavita Bhanot writes about Sathnam Sanghera’s much-lauded book, Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain, and questions what kind of ‘decolonising’ work the book is really doing by offering what she terms as a ‘balanced’ history of of the violence and exploitation of empire.
On Not Getting a Caird Research Fellowship… by Naomi Foyle
Read Naomi Foyle’s inventive, affective poem, which utilises the act of cataloguing to challenge the legacy of violence and colonialism in the history of Britain.
Trouble by Jade E Bradford
Read this exclusive extract from Jade E Bradford’s short story, ‘Trouble’, first published in Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education.
Autofiction Online Writing Workshops — Durre Shahwar
Wasafiri is excited to announce an autofiction workshop series, which comprises two online writing workshops tutored by our 2022/2023 Writer-in-Residence Durre Shahwar.
They Wanted To Write So I Told Them To Dance by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
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.
Pedagogies of Defiance by Sita Balani
In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education, Sita Balani considers the paradoxes inherent in the university’s role and function, and draws upon the past to construct a radical pedagogy of defiance.
Announcing Durre Shahwar as Wasafiri’s new Writer-in-Residence
Wasafiri is delighted to announce our 2022/2023 Writer-in-Residence, author and academic Durre Shahwar.