Two Poems by Reem Abbas
Read two lyrical, bilingual poems from Reem Abbas that interrogate silence and sound; family and home.
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Craft Episode 8: Meena Kandasamy
Read the transcript for Episode 8 of Craft, Wasafiri‘s podcast, featuring Meena Kandasamy.
An Extract from Hostile Environment by Chinmay Sharma
Read an extract of Chinmay Sharma’s short story ‘Hostile Environment’, first published in Wasafiri 111: Translating Lives.
Syncretic Spaces: On Wendy Nanan by Olga U Herrera
Accompanied by exclusive photos, Olga U Herrera provides a retrospective on the work and life of Wendy Nanan, a seminal figure in contemporary Caribbean art.
An Extract from Made in Mauritius by Amal Sewtohul
Read this sweeping, evocative extract from Made in Mauritius by Amal Sewhotel, translated from French by Nadiyah Abdullatif.
A World Within Walls by Sophie Jai
Considering indentureship, family, and industry expectations, author Sophie Jai writes movingly on her experience of publishing her debut novel, Wild Fires.
Inheritance by Dur e Aziz Amna
Read Dur e Aziz Amna’s ‘Inheritance’, a moving and complex examination of literary belonging and unbelonging.
An Excerpt of ‘The Burke Street Chronicles’ by Ingrid Persaud
Read an exclusive extract from Ingrid Persaud’s ‘The Burke Street Chronicles’, first published in Wasafiri 110.
A Reading of ‘Canefield’ by Shivanee Ramlochan
Watch the Trinidadian poet and essayist read her haunting poem ‘Canefield’, first published in Wasafiri 110: Afterlives of Indenture.