
Eggs keep falling from the fourth floor by Bhavika Govil
Read Bhavika Govil’s evocative ‘Eggs keep falling from the fourth floor’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Read Bhavika Govil’s evocative ‘Eggs keep falling from the fourth floor’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Read Shereen Leanne’s expansive, vivid poem ‘almost-shahrazad’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
An interview with 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize judges Mary Jean Chan and Preti Taneja.
Read ‘The Prediction’ by Dal Kular, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Read a Q&A with Marina Salandy-Brown, leading light of Caribbean literature, and Chair for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
In this poem, shortlisted for the 2021 Wasafiri Queen Mary New Writing Prize, Dorsía Smith Silva delivers a chilling elegy to childhood and to the missing Black girls who never found.
Read Shamini Sriskandarajah’s tender life writing piece ‘Hazel and Fiver’, shortlisted for the 2021 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 more about the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, and learn what the judges are looking for in the entries.