Archive: Life Writing

Irenosen Okojie on the innovation of African artists and entrepreneurs working for a better future, in the latest of Wasafiri‘s Global Dispatches.

Read Usha Rungoo’s complex, searching essay ‘The Song of Life’, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 109, Nat Raha, Sabah Choudrey, C N Lester, and Roz Kaveney discuss how in the face of racial capitalism, literature and community can act as a lifeline of connection and creative expression for trans and non binary people.

In this interview, Sabba Khan talks about her graphic memoir ‘The Roles We Play’, alongside questions of identity, culture, family and belonging.

Welcome to Craft. Each month we bring you one international writer, talking about one of their works, for about thirty minutes. This month, Uruguayan novelist Daniel Mella talks about his novel El Hermano Mayor. Winner of the Bartolomé Hidalgo Award, and translated as Older Brother by Megan McDowell…

Writer Divya Ghelani reflects on the meaning she gained from starting a book club devoted to BIPOC authors, accompanied by beautiful illustrations from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.

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.

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.

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.