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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.

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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