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
