Archive: Writer in Residence

Wasafiri is excited to announce that Writer-in-Residence Durre Shahwar’s final workshop, Autofiction: Bearing Witness, will take place live in Cardiff, Wales on 15 April 2023. Book your ticket now.

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.

Wasafiri is delighted to announce our 2022/2023 Writer-in-Residence, author and academic Durre Shahwar.

Read Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, Wasafiri‘s Writer-in-Residence, on the books that made and unmade her, and why reading alone can’t save the world.

In this conversation between Wasafiri Writer-in-Residence Jessica Gaitán Johannesson and novelist Daisy Hildyard, both writers reflect on the way that the climate emergency has affected and shaped their work, considering the complexities and connections of capitalism, craft, and individual responsibilities.

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.

An extract from a personal essay by Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, Wasafiri‘s new Writer-in-Residence for 2021-22, on environmental collapse, guilt, shame, and the body.

Our new Writer-in-Residence for 2021-22 is Jessica Johannesson, a writer and climate activist whose debut novel How We Are Translated was published in February 2021.

‘I believe that everyone has a story inside them.’ Writer and poet Jennifer Wong reflects on her writing residency with Wasafiri and asks: what does it mean to re-write the canon?