LATEST ISSUE

We start our 40th anniversary year with Wasafiri 117, which has a special focus on ‘The State of the Industry’. Our spring 2024 issue reflects on the contemporary international literary industry through a variety of perspectives, from publishing to academia, via the work of writing, translating, editing, publishing, and teaching.

Featuring an exceptional line-up of interviews, with Alexander Chee and Isabel Waidner, Margo Jefferson, and Elaine Castillo; as well as a lead feature from Jen Calleja and an art piece from Annie Paul; plus new poetry from Meena Kandasamy, Andrés N Ordorica, and Yilin Wang, this issue is essential reading for anyone existing within today’s literary spheres. In this issue, you’ll also get a chance to meet the eagerly awaited winners of our 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and Essay Prize 

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Editorial The Sound of Freedom

Lead Feature Custard Pies

Articles Uprooted in the 'Postcolonial' Moment: Attia Hosain's No New Lands, No New Seas; Spectral Trans Figures: The Ambiguous and Atemporal Hijra Body in Narcopolis; Writing In/Against the Academy: Contemporary Biomythographies by Women of Colour

Interviews Alexander Chee and Isabel Waidner; Franklin Nelson; Katie Goh

Art Letter from Kingston

Fiction Sharika Nair; Caitlin Stobie

Poetry Amara Amaryah; Meena Kandasamy; Andrés N Ordorica; Swati Rana; Yilin Wang

Life Writing Vedita Cowaloosur, SJ Kim

Review Essay On The Luxury of Writing with Honesty

Reviews Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala & English Poetry from Sri Lanka & Its Diasporas – Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, and Shash Trevett, eds; River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation – Nuzhat Abbas, ed; Disorientation – Elaine Hsieh Chou; Kibogo – Scholastique Mukasonga trans by Mark Polizzotti; White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture – Alexandra Dane; Mister N – Najwa Barakat. Translated by Luke Leafgren

...and much more.

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