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An exclusive extract from Saraid de Silva’s debut novel, Amma, exploring family trauma, post-colonial displacement, and queerness and forthcoming from Weatherglass Books.
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An exclusive extract from Saraid de Silva’s debut novel, Amma, exploring family trauma, post-colonial displacement, and queerness and forthcoming from Weatherglass Books.
Read this web-exclusive companion piece to Jen Calleja’s satirical and razor-sharp lead feature, ‘Custard Pies’, published in our latest spring issue, Wasafiri 117: The State of the Industry.
Read Shere Ross’ work, shortlisted for the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.
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.
Editorial
The Sound of Freedom
Sana Goyal
Lead Feature
Custard Pies
Jen Calleja
Articles
Uprooted in the 'Postcolonial' Moment: Attia Hosain's No New Lands, No New Seas
Mobeen Hussain
Spectral Trans Figures: The Ambiguous and Atemporal Hijra Body in Narcopolis
Karthik Shankar
Writing In/Against the Academy: Contemporary Biomythographies by Women of Colour
Georgia Lin
Life Writing
Absent Presence
Nasia Sarwar-Skuse
Dambore Dambore: Bidding Goodbye to Mauritian Bhojpuri
Vedita Cowaloosur
Life in the UK
S J Kim
Interviews
Creativity and Capitalism: Alexander Chee and Isabel Waidner in Conversation
Alexander Chee and Isabel Waidner
The Critic at Work and Play: In Conversation with Margo Jefferson
Franklin Nelson
High Stakes: Elaine Castillo on Being Better Readers
Katie Goh
Art
Letter from Kingston
Annie Paul
Fiction
That Which We Call a Rose
Sharika Nair
Sis
Caitlin Stobie
Poetry
Vows; Salt
Amara Amaryah
Diversity-Inclusion-Equity
Meena Kandasamy
Memory Map
Andrés N Ordorica
Mother, Earth — A Colloquy
Swati Rana
A Glossary for Moving Overseas
Yilin Wang
Review Essay
On The Luxury of Writing with Honesty
A Horse at Night: On Writing – Amina Cain
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art – Lauren Elkin
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma – Claire Dederer
Zeba Talkhani
Reviews
Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala & English Poetry from Sri Lanka & Its Diasporas – Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, and Shash Trevett, eds
Adrija Ghosh
River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation – Nuzhat Abbas, ed
Letters to a Writer of Color – Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro, eds
Chandrica Barua
Disorientation – Elaine Hsieh Chou
The Unfortunates – J K Chukwu
Vika Mujumdar
Kibogo – Scholastique Mukasonga trans by Mark Polizzotti
No Edges – Multiple authors and translators
Mayada Ibrahim
White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture – Alexandra Dane
Reading Bestsellers: Recommendation Culture and the Multimodal Reader – Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo
Torsa Ghosal
Mister N – Najwa Barakat trans. by Luke Leafgren
Traces of Enayat – Iman Mersal. Translated by Robin Moger
Lara El Mekaui
The Centre – Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Meet Us by the Roaring Sea – Akil Kumarasamy
Dur e Aziz Amna
LATEST NEWS
Wasafiri is delighted to present this celebration of Wasafiri 116 Shorelines: Southeast Asia and the Littoral, taking place on March 16 2024 at mam’s books in Seattle, USA.
Wasafiri is pleased to announce two online poetry workshops – ‘Exploring the Notion of Home through Poetry’ and ‘Finding Form’ – tutored by our 2023/24 Writer-in-Residence, Reece Williams, taking place on Zoom this spring.
Featuring three contributors from our latest issue, Wasafiri 117: The State of the Industry, and chaired by Wasafiri Editor and Publishing Director Sana Goyal, this panel – at London Book Fair 2024 and in partnership with English PEN – brings together writers and translators to discuss writing and labour, and to debunk myths.