Shash Trevett, winner of a Northern Writer’s Award for Poetry and author of From a Borrowed Land, sits down to talk with the five nominees for the Felix Dennis Prize for First Collection: Caleb Femi, Cynthia Miller, Ralf Webb, Alice Hiller, and Holly Pester.

Meet this year’s winners – Kate Carne (Fiction), Anne O’Brien (Life Writing), and Dipanjali Roy (Poetry) – who will receive £1,000, publication in Wasafiri 109, and mentoring from Nikesh Shukla of The Good Literary Agency. 

Louise Kennedy speaks to Wasafiri, ahead of her event at the Cheltenham Festival, about her debut collection The End of the World is a Cul de Sac, her writing process, what she’s been reading, and what comes next.

Wasafiri and Founder Susheila Nasta congratulate the magazine’s longtime friend, contributor, and Advisory Board member.

‘Abdulrazak’s support for Wasafiri as a little magazine has been steadfast. His work continues to chime closely with Wasafiri’s original mission…’

S J Kim was born in Korea and raised in the American South. In this poetic extract from Wasafiri 107, Kim writes powerfully and candidly about the reality of work and survival in academia.

‘I’m still working hard to find a language for my grief.‘ To celebrate Wasafiri 107, we spoke with poet Cecilia Knapp, the Young People’s Laureate for London, about first drafts, playlists, and themes she gravitates towards in her writing – plus, listen to her read her poem ‘My Brother Quit Drinking Maybe Five Times.’