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For Global Dispatches, author and academic Barbara Taylor responds to Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s ‘strangers, dreaming’, interweaving history and experience to interrogate solitude and Covid-19.

Over the last year, Wasafiri’s Publishing Director, Malachi McIntosh (with support by members of the Wasafiri team) has been hard at work designing and recording Craft – a literary podcast featuring a range of international writers, including Daniel Mella, Chen Chen, Bernardine Evaristo, and Raymond…

Welcome to Craft. Each month we bring you one international writer talking about one of their works for about thirty minutes. This month, Nina Mingya Powles talks about her food diary and travel memoir, Tiny Moons. Nina is a poet, writer, and maker from New Zealand currently based in London.   So th…

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.

Wasafiri talks about craft and writing with two of the 2021 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowships, and Wasafiri contributors and friends, Dzifa Benson and Romalyn Ante. 

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.

Wasafiri‘s Publishing Director, Malachi McIntosh, discusses the nuances and motivation behind Wasafiri‘s upcoming podcast Craft, ahead of the release of the first episode on 3 November.

Following Caleb Femi’s win at the 2021 Forward Prizes for Poetry, Wasafiri is pleased to share his evocative poem ‘Fisher of Men’, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

Shash Trevett, winner of a Northern Writer’s Award for Poetry and author of From a Borrowed Land, sits down to talk with the five nominees for the Felix Dennis Prize for First Collection: Caleb Femi, alice hiller, Holly Pester, Ralf Webb, and Cynthia Miller.