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The magazine of international literature since 1984, we’re celebrating our 40th anniversary in 2024 | Order Wasafiri 117: The State of the Industry now

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🚨 ORDERS OPEN 🚨 Wasafiri 117: The State of the Industry is now available to order! Get your copy of the first issue to be released in our 40th anniversary year: Plus, in this issue meet the winners of our 2023 New Writing Prize and Essay Prize...
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In case you missed it, our New Writing Prize is now open for submissions until 5pm BST, 30 June! 🚨 Fiction, poetry, life writing. We can't wait to read your entries!
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🏆 We are overjoyed to learn that our longtime friend, contributor, and advisory board member Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Our proudest and warmest congratulations.
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BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
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It's time! The winner of @PrizeRofc , dedicated to celebrating works by UK/Irish small presses, has been announced. Congratulations to Norman Erikson Pasaribu, whose Happy Stories, Mostly ( @TiltedAxisPress ) trans. Tiffany Tsao has been chosen from a rich, competitive shortlist
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In light of the removal of Adania Shibli from the Frankfurt Book Fair, we are making free to read & download her short story, ‘Fadwa Touqan Will Do the Tango No More’, trans. by Suneela Mubayi, published in Wasafiri 80: Beautiful Resistance: A Special Issue on Palestine 🧵
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We are pleased to announce that the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is officially open! ✨ The 2023 prize is judged by Leila Aboulela (Fiction), @CalebFemi_ (Poetry) and @AanchalMalhotra (Life Writing) and chaired by @DianaEvansOP 🌟
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Wasafiri stands in solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 ✊ We’re sharing and amplifying the writing of Palestinian authors we have had the privilege to work and be in community with over the years, including for Wasafiri 80: 'Beautiful Resistance: A Special Issue on Palestine' (2014) -
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✨CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS✨ We'll be opening our creative submissions window next month from 1-15 November. Dust off your notebooks and docs to prepare to send us your best writing!
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✨CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS✨ Don't forget we're still on the lookout for submissions until the 31st of October! Send your poetry, life writing and fiction through our submissions window. More info on our website: We look forward to reading your work!
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This week, we're excited to welcome our new Digital Editor, Nina Mingya Powles ( @ninamingya ). Nina is a poet, writer and zinemaker from Aotearoa New Zealand, and is the founder of the small press @bittermelonpoem . Welcome to the Wasafiri team, Nina! 🎉
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⏰ We're now open to submissions of poetry, life writing & fiction until 31 October. We can't wait to read your work!
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We are very excited to announce that the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2018 is now open for submissions! Support for new writers, with no limits on age, gender, nationality or background. To find out more about the prize and how to enter click here:
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Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize - Wasafiri Magazine

The 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the fifteenth edition of the prestigious prize, is open from 1 February to 1 July 2024.

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The 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing prize is now officially open! Enter until 30 June, 2022, 5pm BST. Three winners, in Life Writing, Poetry, and Fiction will win £1000 pounds and publication in Wasafiri! More infor here:
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🚨Polish up those drafts: our submissions window for poetry, fiction & life writing opens on September 1st 🖌️! We can't wait to read your work!
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Early career researchers, including PhD students, from around the world are invited to submit unpublished works for the 2023 Wasafiri Essay Prize. You have until 31 May 2023 to submit. Read the full Terms & Conditions at the link in our bio.
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Enter the 2020 @QMUL Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Fiction, Life Writing, and Poetry – judged by @HamishH1931 , Ada Edemariam, @RaymondAntrobus , and chaired by @kadijattug – and win £1,000 in each category.
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What would a diverse English literature reading list look like? Here are some suggestions by eminent BAME writers, which includes 3 Wasafiri editorial board members. What titles would you add to the list?
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'I never lose sight of who I am or where I'm from...I have that sense of place, and so I'm free to travel.' We are deeply saddened to hear that Jean "Binta" Breeze has passed away - a wonderful poet at the heart of British Caribbean literature, who inspired so many.
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Wasafiri is excited to announce the appointment of new (and returning) team members. Please join us in our welcomes and congratulations!
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✨CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS✨ NOW OPEN UNTIL 15 NOVEMBER 🧵
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We are hugely proud of our Editor-in-Chief @susheila_nasta for being awarded the @RSLiterature Benson Medal. Her incredible work, including starting Wasafiri from her kitchen table 35 years ago, has profoundly altered the literary landscape. Brava, Susheila!
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Representing more of the globe than any other prize of its kind, the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is opening its doors for 2021, welcoming work in fiction, poetry, & life writing from unpublished writers around the world. Meet our judges & submit:
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Representing more of the globe than any other prize of its kind, the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is opening its doors for 2021 and welcoming work in fiction, poetry, and life writing from...

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The winners of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017: Ndinda Kioko (Fiction) Mehran Waheed (Poetry) Julie Abrams-Humphries (Life Writing)
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ICYMI: Wasafiri is now open for creative submissions until 14 December! ✨ We're looking for your best fiction, poetry, life writing, and work in hybrid genres. Read more about guidelines and fees, and submit here:
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📢Announcing the judging panel for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 🏆! We're SO excited to welcome multi-award-winning writers and tastemakers Mary Jean Chan, Marina Salandy-Brown, Preti Taneja, and Francesca Wade. The prize opens *tomorrow*! #WasafiriPrize
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📢 New scholarship opportunity for BAME writers! The UEA Crowdfunded Writers' Scholarship is for BAME authors to write and study on the MA Creative Writing at @uealdc for 1 year, worth £15,000. Find out how to apply here:
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Wasafiri is so pleased to remain an #ACEsupported #NPO for 2023-26, thanks to @ace_national @DCMS @TNLUK . We’re grateful and heartened to have our work recognised nationally in this way, and to have the support of the Arts Council to continue doing what we do best. #LetsCreate ...
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Are you ready to meet the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize shortlisted writers? We’re so excited! Thanks to everyone who entered; we received 1600+ entries from 64 countries – 1/3rd of the countries in the world! – in this record-smashing year...
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#BookerPrize winner @BernardineEvari on the new generation of black British writers: 'These are unprecedented times for black female writers' Read the full essay in our birthday anthology, BRAVE NEW WORDS – ed. @susheila_nasta , pub. @MyriadEditions .
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Bernardine Evaristo: 'These are unprecedented times for black female writers'

The first black woman to win the Booker prize argues that a revolution is sweeping through British publishing. But can it lead to lasting change?

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We are delighted to announce the cover of our next issue, Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education, by @_RehanaZaman ✨Guest edited by Darren Chetty ( @rapclassroom ), Angelique Golding ( @WasafiriPhD ) & @NicolaRollock , this issue features @Durre_Shahwar , @InuaEllams , @garyyounge & more.
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We are delighted to announce the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize shortlist! With entries from over 55 countries, chair Marina Salandy-Brown & judges @PretiTaneja , @Francescawade & @maryjean_chan have selected 15 excellent pieces for the shortlist.
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One of the many impacts of COVID-19 has been on writers’ schedules and headspace. If you want to enter the prize, we want you to be able to. The new closing date of the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is 15 June.
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'It was in the first few years of living in England, when I was about twenty-one or so, that I began to write....' Abdulrazak Gurnah's essay ✏️'Writing and Place' 🗺️ is available to read for free, in celebration of his Nobel win
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Now up, an interview with Idza Luhumyo, winner of the 2022 AKO @CainePrize . 'When you’re writing short fiction, you can ask more of the reader. You’re creating an outline of sorts and there are times when you can trust the reader to do the colouring in... '
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We’re hiring! Wasafiri is looking for our new Publishing Director — a dynamic and experienced candidate to lead our team, with a passion for diversity and inclusion in literature. Apply by Jan 10 2022. More information on our website:
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We’re absolutely delighted to announce the appointment of our new Writer-in-Residence, the poet, writer and translator – most recently of 回家 Letters Home ( @NineArchesPress ) – @jennywcreative :
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We’re delighted to announce the appointment of our new Writer-in-Residence, the poet, writer, and translator Jennifer Wong. For over three decades, we have created a dynamic platform for mapping new...

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📢Announcing the 2021 Wasafiri Essay Prize! A new prize for innovative critical essays in the field of international contemporary literature. £250 cash prize - early career researchers are invited to submit to the prize by 31 August 2021 How to submit:
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The Wasafiri team are truly saddened to hear of Benjamin Zephaniah's passing. A beloved poet, writer, musician and activist – his loss will be felt by many. Here in conversation with our former Editor and Publishing Director @malachimcintosh
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Art & Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in Conversation

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Our wonderful Digital Editor Nina is moving on to focus on her writing, and we're looking for someone to fill her very big shoes! Full details here: £26,000 pro rata (0.5 part-time contract), closes 27 August 2021 #BookJobTransparency
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Join us for a weekend celebrating 35 years and 100 issues of Wasafiri! #Wasafiri35 Book 'Reimagining Britain' NOV 8 @QMULsed here: And 'An Island Full of Voices', a day-long literature festival, on NOV 9 @britishlibrary here:
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Wasafiri Issue 94 is out now with a special section on Windrush Women. Here is an online exclusive poem by Gemma Weekes, whose short story 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Corpse' is published in the issue.
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Poetry: I began to drown. by Gemma Weekes - Wasafiri Magazine

Gemma Weekes is the critically acclaimed author of Love Me (Chatto & Windus). Her short story 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Corpse' appears in Wasafiri Issue 94.

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As our new publishing year begins, we're thankful for those who have made it possible for us to continue our work in supporting marginalised voices:
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In this exclusive Wasafiri 114 extract, @garyyounge traces the evolving media coverage of the #Windrush scandal, taking a critical look at how & why such journalism “enter[s] the media bloodstream and from there flow[s] into the body politic”.  Read here:
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In remembrance of Benjamin Zephaniah, we offer this excerpt from ‘When We Were Young’ from Wasafiri 60: New Generations. Read his memories of ‘entering stories’ alongside 13 other children’s writers via your Wasafiri digital or institutional subscription:
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'It’s not just that other worlds are possible. Other worlds exist. They’re being suffocated, throttled. Novels can show you those other worlds.' Arundhati Roy, interviewed by Pavan Kumar Malreddy in our new issue. Read an extract online now:
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On the first day of #WITMonth , Wasafiri is delighted to announce the cover of our upcoming issue, Wasafiri 111: Translating Lives. Edited by @fararefin , Wasafiri 111 considers translation as a practice & as a metaphor for all creative writing, & is packed with brilliant work:
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We are delighted to hear that Margaret Busby – former Chair of Wasafiri and esteemed Advisory Board Member – will be chairing the #2020BookerPrize panel.
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We are pleased to announce the #2020BookerPrize judges are Margaret Busby (chair), @LeeChildReacher , @LemnSissay , @SameerRahim and @EmilyRCWilson . Read more: #FinestFiction #Judges
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ICYMI: The 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is now open for submissions! Send us your best fiction, life writing, and poetry... we can’t wait to read your words 📝
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A wee reminder that we're currently OPEN for submissions until the end of October! Head to for more details 💫
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Wasafiri New Writing Prize Winner @ndinda_ paid the @Wasafiri1 office a visit this morning. We'll be posting a couple of videos including a reading from her short story, 'Some Freedom Dreams'.
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The winner of the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in Fiction: Sharma Taylor (Barbados) ‘How You Make Jamaican Coconut Oil’ 🥳 Judged by @HamishH1931
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Win £1,000 for your Fiction, Poetry or Life Writing by entering the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. Open to entrants from across the world.
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✨Cover Reveal ✨ Wasafiri 104: Human Rights Cultures This special issue makes space for South-South connections and conversations, focusing on four post-conflict countries – Rwanda, Kenya, Colombia, Argentina – bringing together literatures that follow in the wake of war.
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Our new Assistant Editor starts today! Please welcome @veedzo , an editor, writer and contributor to 'The Good Immigrant', who will be manning the Wasafiri socials from now on.
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🇯🇵COVER REVEAL 🇯🇵 Our 2020 summer special, Japan: Literatures of Remembering—featuring an interview with Mieko Kawakami, articles and an art piece on Manga as memory, new poetry and fiction in translation, and reviews of contemporary Japanese writing and more—is almost here.
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We are delighted to reveal the cover of our spring issue, Wasafiri 113, featuring the winners of the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and the 2022 Essay Prize, a Lead Feature on ‘Remembering Sara Suleri’, and much more. Cover ‘Untitled (Ruins I)’ by: @a_alikazim .
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Pre-order our next special issue, 'Japan: Literatures of Remembering'—featuring an interview with Mieko Kawakami, articles and an art piece on Manga as memory, new poetry and fiction in translation, reviews of contemporary Japanese writing and more.
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Wasafiri Issue 102 - Wasafiri Magazine

Issue 102, Summer 2020 Special Issue: Japan: Literatures of Remembering Editorial The Making and Re-making of Memory Interview Mieko Kawakami Articles Hayao Miyazaki’s European Animation; Poems of...

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ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS of the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize! Chaired by Diana Evans ( @DianaEvansOP ) 🎉 🧵 👇
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🌟 Issue 108 available for pre-order now 🌟 House of Wisdom: Libraries and Literatures of Islam collects new writing on libraries and Islamic literary culture. Featuring work from @BinaShah @HamjaAhsan Zaffar Kunial, @nadineaishaj and more. Pre-order here:
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A reminder that we are still looking for applications for our new Publishing Director! Deadline is 10 January — visit our website for more details!
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In celebration of #Wasafiri35 , we’re opening up our archive, and offering one-week-only free access to author interviews from our back issues—one for each of our 35 years. First up, from our very first issue in 1984, a discussion with Lauretta Ngcobo:
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Do books alter lives?

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Our winter special issue, Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education—guest edited by Darren Chetty ( @rapclassroom ), Angelique Golding ( @WasafiriPhD ) & @NicolaRollock and featuring @Durre_Shahwar , @InuaEllams , & @garyyounge , amongst others—is open for orders:
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Calling writers of fiction, life writing and poetry — the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is open for submissions until June 15. Read more about eligibility and enter here:
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We’re open for creative submissions until December 14. Polish up your best fiction, poetry, life writing, and work in hybrid genres and submit it to Wasafiri today!
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'He has made us conscious of a continuing and pressing need to shift angles of vision, opening up the vistas of contemporary fiction.' Read Wasafiri and @susheila_nasta 's congratulations to @GurnahAuthor on his Nobel Prize win
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, longtime Wasafiri friend, contributor, and advisory board member, wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

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New year, new look. Cover proofs for our forthcoming spring issue – Wasafiri 101 – are in. Notice anything different in our design?
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Over the past two weeks we’ve been inspired by the protests against anti-black racism and police brutality in the United States. (Thread)
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🖤✨COVER REVEAL✨🖤 Wasafiri 105 – our spring 2021 issue – features a lead essay on artistic response to the Grenfell tragedy and content on ‘Collaboration across Borders’, Mohsin Hamid and our 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize winners, and more!
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The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2019 is now open for submissions! Deadline 28 June, prize £1,000 each for poetry, fiction, and life writing. This year’s outstanding judging line up: @DoughtyLouise @warsan_shire @nikeshshukla #QMWasafiriPrize19
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Read Some Freedom Dreams, @ndinda_ 's winning entry to the Wasafiri New Writing Prize: #WasafiriNWP
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Ndinda Kioko is the winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017, fiction category.

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We are looking for submissions for our next general issue. Share and click below to find out more.
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Wasafiri is now open for submissions of articles, essays and interviews. Please read the full details below before submitting. 

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Join us at The British Library for ‘Windrush Women: Past and Present’, including a screening of an exclusive 1986 interview between Susheila Nasta and Beryl Gilroy
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🎉We're hiring! We're seeking a dynamic, creative new Digital Editor to help us support, discover and promote THE BEST writers from across the 🌍. Application deadline 14 Jan 2021.
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Happy Monday! It's our 35th anniversary year and we're feeling generous with our archives. If you love what we do, help us spread the word about Wasafiri – and reach 5K followers – and we may have a very special prize for one (or five) of you. #Wasafiri35 🎉
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Welcome to the world, Wasafiri 100! Pre-order via our shop:
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🎆Hot off the presses!🎆 With massive thanks to guest editors @RehanaSara and @AtiaNadia and all our contributors. Grab your copy here:
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The judges for this year's Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize are Louise Doughty (Fiction) Nikesh Shukla (Life Writing) and Warsan Shire (Poetry). Winners will receive £1,000 and have their work published in print and online. More details here:
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Could you be our next Writer-in-Residence? For the first time, we're launching an open call for applications from UK-based writers: deadline 31 July 📣! Previous writers-in-residence include @jennywcreative , @NickMakoha & @Bidisha_online Find out more:
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🌊WASAFIRI 116: SHORELINES: SOUTH EAST ASIA AND THE LITTORAL🌊 We're thrilled to present our new winter special issue, guest edited by Nazry Bahrawi, @joleow and Y-Dang Troeung, now open for preorders! 🧵
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Kenyan author Makena Onjerika to give Caine Prize winnings to street children
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Kenyan author Makena Onjerika to give Caine Prize winnings to street children

Makena Onjerika's tale of a girl living on the streets scoops the prestigious £10,000 Caine Prize.

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Welcome to our 5 new members of our board, who have just been appointed trustees: @BetaRish @mcintosh_kim @YBattleFelton , Kavita Bhanot & Carol Sidney!
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1/5 🥁 We're delighted to announce the shortlist of our 2021 Queen Mary @QMUL_HSS Wasafiri New Writing Prize! The winners will be revealed on Oct 14. We received so many wonderful entries from across the globe -- our shortlist spans four continents
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi will be launching her short story collection MANCHESTER HAPPENED at @AfricaWritesUK this Saturday. Ahead of the festival, read her short story 'She is Our Stupid' from the collection on Wasafiri
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's short story 'She is Our Stupid' published in Manchester Happened (2019).

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Our heartfelt congrats to Wasafiri contributor @keithjlondon on being selected, and featured, on this list of 10 top British LGBTQI writers. You can read Keith's work in our 'Queer Worlds/Global Queer' issue. Out now!
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Have you applied for our Editor at Large positions yet? We’re seeking well-connected individuals in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, & New Zealand to help us support, discover and promote writers from across the 🌏 Deadline 11 February
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Our submissions window for fiction and poetry closes at the end of January. Get your stories and poems in before then, tell your writer-friends. We want to read your words...
Submissions - Wasafiri Magazine of International Contemporary Literature

Wasafiri welcomes original, quality contributions from poets, fiction writers, academics and critics from all cultural backgrounds.

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Wasafiri is seeking an Editor and Publishing Director. Deadline for applications is 17th February 2019
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📢Once more – loudly, and for those at the back📢 Come and celebrate 35 years and 100 issues of contemporary international writing – 'An Island Full of Voices: Writing Britain Now' – at the British Library on November 9. #Wasafiri35 🎉 Tickets:
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Inside Wasafiri 103: A special section on ‘Writing Whiteness’—including interviews with @cathyparkhong + @brixtonbard and articles from @moniqueroffey + @KayoChingonyi —and our 2019 @QMUL Wasafiri New Writing Prize winners @AliciaMietus , @DesireeSeebaran , @RubyJonesWrites .
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Last but not the least: The shortlist for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in Poetry, judged by @RaymondAntrobus : @grammourpuss , Rupam Baoni, Joshua Idehen, Emily Pritchard, @yasmineseale . Congratulations! 🥳
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'I'm not a historian, so I don't deal with trying to piece together things as they were. I'm really listening to the present, listening to echoes of the big bang, so to speak, ripples that are still perceptible.' Jay Bernard, Issue 94 #fromthearchive
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To celebrate Abdulrazak Gurnah's Nobel Prize win, we are delighted to publish the transcript of his interview with @raziaiqbal , in conjunction with @UniKent , 'Belonging, Colonialism and Arrival' first published in Issue 100. Read it for free here:
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Field-leading academic writing doesn't have to be inaccessible. Send us your rigorous but readable articles on international contemporary literature for peer-reviewed publication. #callforpapers #submissions #AcWri
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It's British East & Southeast Asian Heritage Month, and we are so excited about POETICS OF HOME: a new online festival celebrating Chinese diaspora poets around the world, 22 Sept-6 Oct, curated by our brilliant former Writer-in-Residence @jennywcreative 🌸
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Announcing Poetics of Home, an online festival celebrating Chinese diaspora poets, taking place 22 September - 6 October 2021.

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NEW in Meditations: Shalvi Jaxay Shah ( @shallwe_write ) responds to 'Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation', edited by Dr Kavita Bhanot & @JeremyTiang & published by @TiltedAxisPress 🌸 ‘Gratitude,’ says Shah, ‘is not enough.’  Read it here:
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'If you ask me about water, this is the water I think about. The glow of myriad colours on the lake at night.' 'Houhai', a new poem by @jennywcreative , our Writer-in-Residence – on water, memory, history. 🌊
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First up: The shortlist for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in Fiction, judged by @HamishH1931 : Veronique Bequin, @lolaolufemi_ , Aparna Surendra, Sharma Taylor, @AdamZmith . Congratulations! 🥳
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We are delighted to announce that playwright and poet @NickMakoha has been appointed as Wasafiri's new Writer-in-Residence
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Nick will be running this year’s Wasafiri Salon as well as participating in various live engagements – including events and Twitter takeovers.

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Just a few days left to apply to be our next Writer-in-Residence! We want to hear about your work 💫!
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Up now! A discussion between @alice_hiller , @CalebFemi_ , @cynthiawmiller , Ralf Webb ( @loco_mote ) and Holly Pester ( @hollypesty ) as interviewed by award-winning poet Shash Trevett ( @ShashTrevett ) ahead of the @ForwardPrizes ceremony this Sunday!
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We're thrilled to announce that @JessJohannesson is our new Writer-in-Residence for 2021-22!💫 Jess is a Swedish/Colombian writer & climate justice activist based in Edinburgh. Keep an eye out for updates on Jess's upcoming events and workshops!
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