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.
Archive: Poetry
On Not Getting a Caird Research Fellowship… by Naomi Foyle
Read Naomi Foyle’s inventive, affective poem, which utilises the act of cataloguing to challenge the legacy of violence and colonialism in the history of Britain.
My mother tells her sister you have your husband and I have my flowers by Vasiliki Albedo
Read this striking poem by Vasiliki Albedo, after one of van Gogh’s seminal artworks.
Two Poems by Reem Abbas
Read two lyrical, bilingual poems from Reem Abbas that interrogate silence and sound; family and home.
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.
Meditations: Fahad Al-Amoudi on Anthony Joseph’s ‘Sonnets for Albert’
In this instalment of Wasafiri‘s creative-critical series ‘Meditations’, Fahad Al-Amoudi examines the role of memory and the father in Anthony Joseph’s Sonnets for Albert.
almost-shahrazad by Shereen Leanne
Read Shereen Leanne’s expansive, vivid poem ‘almost-shahrazad’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Ghost Talker Poem by Dorsía Smith Silva
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.
If you read this backwards blood becomes wine by Jordan Hamel
Read Jordan Hamel’s poem ‘If you read this backwards blood becomes wine’, shortlisted for the 2021 New Writing Prize.