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. Â
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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;Â 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.
EditorialÂ
The Sound of Freedom
Sana Goyal
Lead Feature
Custard Pies
Jen Calleja
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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
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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
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ArtÂ
Letter from Kingston
Annie Paul
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Fiction
That Which We Call a Rose
Sharika Nair
Sis
Caitlin Stobie
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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 EssayÂ
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