Durre Shahwar
Durre Shahwar is a writer and Deputy Editor of Wasafiri. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Cardiff University on autofiction and marginalised identities. She is the co-editor of Gathering, an essay anthology of nature writing by women of colour (2024, 404 Ink).
Durre Shahwar is a writer and Deputy Editor of Wasafiri. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Cardiff University on autofiction and marginalised identities. She is the co-editor of Gathering, an essay anthology of nature writing by women of colour (2024, 404 Ink). Her work has appeared in Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class (2017, Dead Ink Books), We Shall Fight Until We Win (2018, 404 Ink), Welsh (Plural) (2021, Repeater Books) and others. Durre is working on her first book of narrative non-fiction, a sample of which was shortlisted and highly commended for the Morley Lit Prize. Durre was formerly a Writer-in-Residence at Wasafiri. Read her story, ‘The Golden Books’, first published in Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education, which is available to purchase in the Wasafiri shop.
