
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.
We are pleased to be opening the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for submissions until 30 June 2023.
Wasafiri is hiring a dynamic new Digital Co-Ordinator to join our team.
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.
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.
Read this exclusive extract from Jade E Bradford’s short story, ‘Trouble’, first published in Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education.
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.
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.
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.
Wasafiri is delighted to announce our 2022/2023 Writer-in-Residence, author and academic Durre Shahwar.