News & Events

Wasafiri is pleased to announce a collaboration with JAAG for the 2024 edition of the festival, which will include a Wasafiri chaired and curated panel on poetry and translation. 

Wasafiri is delighted to present this celebration of Wasafiri 116 Shorelines: South East Asia and the Littoral taking place on March 16 2024, at mam's books in Seattle, USA.

Wasafiri is pleased to announce two online poetry workshops tutored by our 2023/24 Writer-in-Residence, Reece Williams, taking place this spring.

Featuring three contributors from Wasafiri magazine’s ‘The State of the Industry’ spring 2024 issue, the first issue in its 40th anniversary year, and chaired by Wasafiri Editor and Publishing Director Sana Goyal…

For 15 years, the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize has awarded some of the most exciting new voices in life writing, poetry, and fiction from around the world.

We are delighted to reveal our latest Writer-in-Residence, the talented poet and writer Reece Williams.

Wasafiri is pleased to announce that Sana Goyal, who has been with the magazine since 2019, has been appointed Editor and Publishing Director.

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in Poetry, Fiction, and Life Writing.

We are pleased to announce the shortlists for the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged by Leila Aboulela (Fiction), Aanchal Malhotra (Life Writing), and Caleb Femi (Poetry), and chaired by Diana Evans . Celebrating new writers…

Wasafiri is excited to announce an afternoon of readings and conversation, Windrush: Writing the Scandal , which will take place live in partnership with Black Cultural Archives at their space on Windrush Square, London on 24 June 2023. Windrush:

Wasafiri is excited to announce that Writer-in-Residence Durre Shahwar's final workshop, Autofiction: Bearing Witness, will take place live in partnership with Dyddiau Du, Cardiff, Wales on 15 April 2023. Autofiction: Bearing Witness … Writing has often been a means of bearing witness.

Wasafiri is excited to announce an autofiction workshop series, which comprises two online writing workshops tutored by our 2022/2023 Writer-in-Residence Durre Shahwar , taking place on 24 January 2023 and 21 February 2023, from 7-9pm GMT, on Zoom.

We're delighted to announce the appointment of our new Writer-in-Residence, writer and academic  Durre Shahwar .

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in Fiction, Life Writing, and Poetry.

Wasafiri is excited to announce that we have expanded our global team of editors by recruiting five new Editors at Large based across the Middle East.

We are pleased to announce the shortlists for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged by Preti Taneja (Fiction), Francesca Wade (Life Writing), and Mary Jean Chan (Poetry), and chaired by Marina Salandy-Brown. Celebrating new writers, the international Prize has no limits on age…

Are you an early career researcher specialising in contemporary literature? Good news — just over two months remain to enter the 2022 Wasafiri Essay Prize!

Wasafiri is delighted to present this celebration of  Wasafiri 110: Afterlives of Indenture, taking place on July 5, at AGO Jackman Hall in Toronto.

Journalist, critic, and founder of the Bocas Lit Fest, Marina Salandy-Brown has contributed immensely to Caribbean literature and culture, as well as playing a key role in introducing and promoting that literary culture across the world.

Wasafiri is excited to announce that the inaugural Wasafiri Essay Prize for Early Career Researchers has been awarded to Antony Huen for his astute, important, and creatively engaged article ‘The “old Hong Kong” and “a Gold-sifting Bird”:

Watch Jinling Wu's evocative short film interpretation of an excerpt of Nadine Aisha Jassat's poem 'Prayer & Breath', first published in Issue 108: House of Wisdom. My first words were a prayer: Lips pressed against the wooden shelf... The full poem is available to read in Issue 108:

Wasafiri is excited to announce ‘Beyond Protest: Writing for Action’, an online writing workshop tutored by our Writer-in-Residence Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, taking place on 22 February, from 7-9pm, on Zoom.

In collaboration with the Institute of English Studies and Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, we are excited to announce a new online festival, Poetics of Home: A Chinese Diaspora Poetry Festival, taking place from 22 September - 6 October 2021. Click here to view the full programme of events.

We're delighted to announce the appointment of our new Writer-in-Residence, the writer and climate justice activist Jessica Gaitán Johannesson.