The State of the Industry

Get our latest issue, Wasafiri 117: The State of the Industry, together with Wasafiri 109, which has a lead feature on Trans Literary Activism, Wasafiri 107: Crisis/Recovery, and Wasafiri 80: Beautiful Resistance: A Special Issue on Palestine.

Together, these issues consider the aspirations and limits of literary activism from a range of perspectives, complementing the future focus of our spring 2024 issue, Wasafiri 117: The State of the Industry.

Our spring issue, the first in our 40th anniversary year, reflects on the contemporary international literary industry through a variety of perspectives – from publishing to academia – via the work of writing, translating, editing, publishing, and teaching.

Featuring an exceptional line-up of interviews, with Alexander Chee and Isabel Waidner, Margo Jefferson, and Elaine Castillo; a lead feature from Jen Calleja and an art piece from Annie Paul; plus new poetry from Meena Kandasamy, Andrés N Ordorica, and Yilin Wang, Wasafiri 117 is essential reading for anyone existing within today’s literary spheres. In this issue, you’ll also get a chance to meet the eagerly awaited winners of our 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and Essay Prize.