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If you're an early-career researcher (incl. PhD students) in contemporary literature, submit your unpublished work to the 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize by 30 June for a chance to win publication, cash, academic mentoring, and a Wasafiri subscription. buff.ly/eBXbXTz

Join Wasafiri for BLACK FUGITIVITIES, a 2-part community event series 🪐 Part one is IMAGINE OTHERWISE: Black Fugitivities, a roundtable discussion at The Common Press Bookshop with Rivers Solomon, Vanessa Kisuule, sarah lasoye, & Irenosen Okojie. GET TICKETS: buff.ly/s2uqJfJ

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be in conversation with Banu Mushtaq, winner of the 2025 International The Booker Prizes for HEART LAMP (And Other Stories), on 16 June Waterstones Islington Get your ticket here: waterstones.com/events/heart-l…

Sri Lankan novelist Romesh Gunesekera is Chair of the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize! A seasoned literary judge, he looks forward to discovering what contemporary global writers are thinking through today. Listen here: buff.ly/LlNfzlG

South African poet Sihle Ntuli reads 'Ars Poetica as Bildungsroman' and 'Scapegoat, published in Wasafiri 121. These poems outline relationships to poetry, community, and ritual. buff.ly/LXWfGxe Order Wasafiri 121 now on our website.

We’re thrilled to share the 4th episode of sub(VERSE)ive, our exclusive interview series with contemporary poets. Our latest guest is Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌳🦜🌳🐆, discussing her ninth collection BEAST (Bloodaxe Books). Watch now, including a reading from Pascale, here: buff.ly/5WF1XQ7

Looking forward to the poetry from Theophilus Kwek and Suji Kwock Kim and discussing with them on the nature of diaspora and dislocation on 12 June, hosted by Wasafiri ! Don’t forget to register (it’s free) wasafiri.org/news-and-event…

You don't have long left to enter the Wasafiri New Writing Prize. A springboard potentially for your writing career> past winners include Akwaeke Emezi, Caleb Femi, and Louise Kennedy. Full entry deets &c here: wasafiri.org/writing-prizes…

Introducing our summer special issue – Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue – available to preorder now! Guest co-edited by Laure Assaf and Deepak Unnikrishnan, this issue explores the United Arab Emirates’ literary and creative scene. Preorder now: buff.ly/M3FwvZj

Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue. Guest co-edited by Laure Assaf and Deepak Unnikrishnan. Available to preorder now: wasafiri.org/issues/wasafir…

We are deeply saddened to hear of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s passing. 🕊️ Pictured here at the launch of Wasafiri in 1984.

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. A leading light of African and world literature, he was a distinguished Kenyan writer, scholar, and playwright, who served on Wasafiri's Advisory Board for several years. Please join us in remembrance 🕊️

In this candid essay drawing on her own experiences, our outgoing Translator-in-Residence @SawadHussain discusses the particularities of translating between Arabic and English, plus the larger inequities between language pairs in the translation industry. buff.ly/CcvRVRC

Join us for part two of our BLACK FUGITIVITIES community event series – Writing through Fugitivity – an online writing workshop with @LolaOlufemi_ When: Thursday, 10 July, 7-9pm Where: Online, via Zoom buff.ly/6Gw8Win

Just ONE MONTH LEFT to enter the 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize! Open to early-career researchers (+ PhD students) in the field of international contemporary literature (literature published since 1965 from anywhere in the world). ⏰ Deadline: 30 June 2025 buff.ly/oAGs0E3

Join writers & activists for an evening of food & conversation on ‘Tamil food’ — a global food culture shaped by histories of trade, labour, colonial & postcolonial movements When: 10 June 2025, 6 pm Where: Walworth Town Hall, 155 Walworth Rd, London Free, no need to register