
almost-shahrazad by Shereen Leanne
Read Shereen Leanne’s expansive, vivid poem ‘almost-shahrazad’, 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.
Read ‘Tessellation’ by Anam Raheem, 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.
Read a Q&A with Marina Salandy-Brown, leading light of Caribbean literature, and Chair for the 2022 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 Usha Rungoo’s complex, searching essay ‘The Song of Life’, shortlisted for the 2022 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 more about the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, and learn what the judges are looking for in the entries.
Renowned prize judges Simon Prosser (Fiction), Aida Edemariam (Life Writing), Raymond Antrobus (Poetry), and Kadija Sesay (Chair), announce this year’s fifteen-strong shortlist.