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We’re delighted to announce an additional prize that will be awarded to this year’s Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize shortlist.

You may have seen it lurking at the edges of articles, hashtagged at the end of tweets or cited in wider references to Wasafiri. It’s been stated, but adjacent, the guiding principle of all our activities over the past several months, but, perhaps, sometimes, a little bit quiet:

Photograph by Adrian Pope … On Monday 24 June, at an evening event at the Royal Society, Wasafiri’s founder and Editor-in-Chief, Susheila Nasta, joined E. M. Forster, Rebecca West, Wole Soyinka, Anita Desai, Nadine Gordimer, Diana Athill and Liz Calder among others…

The magazine of international contemporary writing, Wasafiri, is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Writer-in-Residence, the poet and playwright Nick Makoha.

In association with the Korean Cultural Centre and the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, the launch of Wasafiri Special Issue 96 is to take place at the Korean Cultural Centre on 21st February 2019. The issue is on the theme 'Korea:

The 2018 Wasafiri New Writing Prize winners are announced with winners in the following categories: Fiction: ‘Plunder’ by Deirdre Shanahan; Poetry: ‘In the Garden Where the Gorgons Live’ by Daniella Shokoohi; Life Writing:

Wasafiri is collaborating with Queen Mary to bring together some of the most ground-breaking authors of the moment for discussion in front of an audience.

Wasafiri is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2018. This year the prize received over 800 entries from sixty different countries.

Susheila Nasta will be participating in two events and announcing the SI Leeds prizewinners at Ilkley Festival … Ilkley Literature Festival 2018, now in its 45th year, will take place over 17 days from Friday 28 September – Sunday 14 October.

The magazine of international contemporary writing, Wasafiri, is delighted to announce the appointment of our first Writer in Residence, the renowned writer, broadcaster and film-maker Bidisha.

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Wasafiri has published the winners of this year's Writeabridge poetry competition.

This year, Wasafiri Editor-in-Chief Susheila Nasta will be one of the judges of the SI Leeds Literary Prize.

We are now open for submissions of articles, essays and interviews. Please read the full details below before submitting. Wasafiri is the leading UK-based magazine in the field of International Contemporary Writing.

The Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2018 is now open for submissions. The closing date is 5pm GMT on 13 July 2018. Enter here: https://www.wasafiri.org/enter-the-wasafiri-new-writing-prize/ … The prize was launched to support new writers, with no limits on age, gender, nationality or background.

Alfred Fagon Award Winners Announced … The annual Awards took place at The Dorfman, National Theatre on Friday 8 December.

Win 4 Issues of Wasafiri Magazine – Simply suggest a book to add to the English Literature Curriculum … You may have seen the recent debates about diversifying the English Literature Curriculum at both G.C.S.E. and A-Level. Which one book would you add to the curriculum?

The winners of the 2018 Eccles British Library Writer’s Award are the novelist and short story writer Stuart Evers, and the author, librettist and screenwriter Tessa McWatt, who is also a Trustee at Wasafiri.

The​ ​Story​ ​of​ ​a​ ​Brief​ ​Marriage​​ ​by​ ​Anuk​ ​Arudpragasam​ ​emerges​ ​as​ ​the​ ​winner​ ​from​ ​a​ ​shortlist​ ​of​ ​five to​ ​take​ ​the​ ​coveted​ ​US​ ​$25,000​ ​DSC​ ​Prize … 18t​h November 2017; Dhaka, Bangladesh :

DAVID T.K. WONG FELLOWSHIP … The David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East to spend a year in the UK, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.

Book Prize shines light on Highland literature … New UK book prize will recognise and reward great literature from the Highlands. A new book prize, established this year, will celebrate the finest work that recognises the rich culture, heritage and landscape of the Highlands.

Wasafiri has been successful in renewing its National Portfolio Status with Arts Council England, with funding confirmed for 2018-22. Wasafiri Founding Editor Susheila Nasta said…

Susheila Nasta and the Wasafiri team are delighted to welcome Rukhsana Yasmin, an outstanding publishing professional who has recently joined us as Deputy Editor.

Ingrid Persaud from Trinidad and Tobago has won this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Sweet Sop’. The story was chosen from the five regional winning stories in this year’s Prize which received a record 6,000 entries. ‘The Sweet Sop’ is Persaud’s first short story.