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Wasafiri is excited to announce ‘Beyond Protest: Writing for Action’, an online writing workshop tutored by our Writer-in-Residence Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, taking place on 26 January, from 7-9pm, on Zoom.

Announcing Poetics of Home, an online festival celebrating Chinese diaspora poets taking place 22 September – 6 October 2021.

Announcing a new series of free online events, Transformative Testimonies: Writing and Human Rights, taking place 17 – 23 May, 2021.

Wasafiri is excited to announce that we have expanded our global team of editors by recruiting five Editors at Large based in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Aotearoa New Zealand. The Editors will help Wasafiri to discover, promote and support new writing within their local regions, rejuvenate ou…

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

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

An extract from an essay originally published in the catalogue for Scenes from the South (Makhanda: Amazwi South African Museum of Literature, 2020), an international travelling exhibition to mark J.M. Coetzee’s 80^th birthday.

The winners of our 2019 prize, which is in its tenth year, were announced at the British Library on 9 November.

After more than a year of plotting, planning, arranging and organising, our 35^th anniversary event, An Island Full of Voices: Writing Britain Now has almost arrived…