Interviews

Ever wondered what your favourite writer’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you. Describe your first drafts in one sentence.

Florian Stadtler speaks to Sri Lankan British novelist Romesh Gunesekera. Here, Gunesekera further expands on themes and concerns his work engages, first brought up in his interview with Wasafiri founder Susheila Nasta for 'An Island is a World': One to One with Romesh Gunesekera, published in our 35th anniversary issue – Wasafiri 100.

Ever wondered what your favourite writer’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you.  … Describe your first drafts in one sentence. The same unreadable scribbles, but with one overarching rule:

Ever wondered what your favourite writer’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri  Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you. Describe your first drafts in one sentence.

Ever wondered what your favourite writer’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you.  … Describe your first drafts in one sentence.

Ever wondered what your favourite writer’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you. Diana Evans is the author of Ordinary People, The Wonder, and 26a.

Ever wondered what your favourite writer’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you. Describe your first drafts in one sentence.

Ever wondered what your favourite writer’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you.  … Describe your first drafts in one sentence.

Ever wondered what your favourite writer’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you.  … Describe your first drafts in one sentence.   … A start. Tell us about your writing rituals.

Ever wondered what your favourite writer’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you.  … Describe your first drafts in one sentence.

Ever wondered what your favourite author’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you.  … Describe your first drafts in one sentence. Electric. Tell us about your writing rituals.

Ever wondered what your favourite author's first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody's heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you? Describe your first drafts in one sentence. Messy, curious, intuitive, and filled with footnotes.

Ever wondered what your favourite writer’s first drafts look like? Or which book your favourite translator would secretly love to translate? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you. Describe your first drafts in one sentence. Curious.

Ever wondered what your favourite writer’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you.

Ever wondered what your favourite author’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you. Describe your first drafts in one sentence.

Ever wondered what your favourite author's first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody's heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you. Describe your first drafts in one sentence. Sparse with a sprinkle of amnesia.   … Tell us about your writing rituals.

Ever wondered what your favourite author’s first drafts look like? Or which book they love that nobody’s heard of? Wasafiri Wonders is a series that asks these questions for you.  … Describe your first drafts in one sentence.

Mexico City based British poet and editor, Jack Little, interviews Rocío Cerón, one of the major Mexican poets of her generation. They discuss Rocío's recent work, as well as the influence that place – particularly Mexico City – has on her writing. 

Jay Bernard came to comics via poetry; their first pamphlet, Your Sign is Cuckoo, Girl (2007), was followed by a graphic poem in City State (2009). In the interim, they produced graphic reviews for culturewars.org.uk and penned a strip entitled Budo.