Archive: Prizes

Are you an early career researcher specialising in contemporary literature? Enter the 2022 Wasafiri Essay Prize now, for the chance to win £250, publication, mentoring, and more.

Meet this year’s winners – Kate Carne (Fiction), Anne O’Brien (Life Writing), and Dipanjali Roy (Poetry) – who will receive £1,000, publication in Wasafiri 109, and mentoring from Nikesh Shukla of The Good Literary Agency. 

Wasafiri and Founder Susheila Nasta congratulate the magazine’s longtime friend, contributor, and Advisory Board member.

‘Abdulrazak’s support for Wasafiri as a little magazine has been steadfast. His work continues to chime closely with Wasafiri’s original mission…’

Fifteen writers across three genres have been shortlisted for the prestigious and uniquely international Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, this year judged by Hirsh Sawhney (Fiction), Christie Watson (Life Writing), and Tishani Doshi (Poetry), and chaired by Andrew Cowan.   Shortlistees for the…

Meet this year’s winners – Sharma Taylor (Fiction), Sharanya Deepak (Life Writing), and Yasmine Seale (Poetry) – who will receive £1,000, publication in Wasafiri 105, and mentoring from Nikesh Shukla of The Good Literary Agency. 

The winner of the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award on writing love and violence, the ordinary and the overlooked, and the novel as ‘a chance to exhale’.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Life Writing category.