
2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize Opens for Submissions
We are pleased to be opening the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for submissions until 30 June 2023.
We are pleased to be opening the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for submissions until 30 June 2023.
Read this sweeping, evocative extract from Made in Mauritius by Amal Sewhotel, translated from French by Nadiyah Abdullatif.
Read an exclusive extract from Ingrid Persaud’s ‘The Burke Street Chronicles’, first published in Wasafiri 110.
Read an extract from Sharma Taylor’s debut novel, What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You, along with an exclusive commentary on the histories of indentured workers in Jamaica, and the important legacies that they left.
Read Bhavika Govil’s evocative ‘Eggs keep falling from the fourth floor’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Read ‘Tessellation’ by Anam Raheem, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Read Mónica Ibarra Parle’s short story ‘The Claws Come First’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Read Riddhi Dastidar’s short story ‘Fuck Marry Kill’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Read this excerpt from Monica Ali’s Love Marriage, first published in Wasafiri Issue 109, and available to read online for the month of March.