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Issue 109, Spring 2022

Wasafiri 109

Issue 109 introduces new fiction and an interview from Monica Ali, the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize winners, and a lead feature on Trans Literary Activism written collaboratively across generations. An incendiary article on postcolonial prize cultures, an interview with Sara Ahmed on Complaint!, and the winning entry from the 2021 Wasafiri Essay Prize on the politics of Hong Kong poetry continue the issue’s theme of literary activism across genres, institutions, and continents.


Contents

Editorial

A Fold in Time
Emily Mercer

Feature

'Discontent, Spraypaint, and Desire': On Trans Literary Activism
Nat Raha, Sabah Choudrey, CN Lester & Roz Kaveney

Articles

The ‘Old Hong Kong’ and ‘A Gold-Sifting Bird’: Hong Kong and Chinese Ekphrasis in Contemporary British Poetry 
Antony Huen

Digitally Mapping Caribbean London: Urban Strolls in the 1950s BBC Radio Archive 
Alex Fabrizio

Who Wins? The Politics of Prize Culture in Canada’s CODE Burt Awards 
Dessa Bayrock and Sarah Brouillette

Life Writing

The Solid Facts of a Life 
Portia Roelofs

Swallow 
Anne O'Brien

Interviews

‘We Are Louder When We Are Heard Together’: Sara Ahmed on Complaint!
Adrija Dey

From Brick Lane to Love Marriage: An Interview with Monica Ali 
C S Bhagya

‘A Crucial Unlearning’: Saikat Majumdar in Conversation 
Sohinee Roy

Art

The Act Of Return: Stacey Tyrell’s Chattel Photographs 
Kate Keohane

Fiction

Harriet’s Party: An Excerpt from Love Marriage
Monica Ali

First To Go 
Kate Carne

Poetry

Gulf of Paria 
Fawzia Muradali Kane

Three Women in a Single Room House 
K Srilata

सफ़रनामा/Safarnama 
Dipanjali Roy

Ghazal: Birthworts 
Rupinder Kaur

Reviews

Review Essay: We Are. We Are Here. New Perspectives on Writing from the Margins 
Not Quite Right for Us: Forty Writers Speak Volumes–Sharmilla Beezmohun, ed. 
Portrait of Colossus–Samatar Elmi
His Father’s Disease–Aruni Kashyap
Samanta Bellotta

Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery – Auritro Majumder
Manav Ratti

The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction – Maesy Ang and Teddy W Kusuma, eds., trans.by Mikael Johani et al
Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City – Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden, eds.
Elleke Boehmer

Glocal Narratives of Resilience – Ana María Fraile-Marcos, ed.
Janet M Wilson

Repentance – Eloísa Díaz
Patricia Duffaud

Fortune – Amanda Smyth
Franklin Nelson

Out of Darkness, Shining Light – Petina Gappah
The First Woman – Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Chris Dunton

A Lonely Man – Chris Power
W B Gooderham

Three Rooms – Jo Hamya
Vamika Sinha

Little Gods – Meng Jin
J A Mensah

Among the Contributors

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