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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Check out these workshops with ALTA mentor Deepa Bhasti at Wasafiri! 👇

Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 14d

We're delighted to announce four curated online writing workshops tutored by our inaugural International Translator in Residence, the International Booker Prize winning writer-translator, Deepa Bhasthi.

The first pair of workshops will be held in autumn 2025.

Registration: buff.ly/Gguo10u

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 10h

Our latest issue's Reviews section includes Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS; 2025 International Booker Prize winner HEART LAMP; Sulaiman Addonia's THE SEERS; Pankaj Mishra's THE WORLD AFTER GAZA; and more.

Read them all in Wasafiri 123: buff.ly/koGOx7a

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 1d

To complement the special section on Tibet in our latest issue, Wasafiri 123, we've made Rupam Baoni's short story 'Sky-burial' from Wasafiri 95 – on an exiled woman in Tibet – free to access and download all October.

Read here: buff.ly/yqtr7KN

Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 5d

'To speak with Christina Sharpe is to converse with a constellation' - Guy Gunaratne

In this extract from Wasafiri 123, Christina Sharpe speaks to @guygunaratne.bsky.social about the origins behind her most recent work — ORDINARY NOTES.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 6d

🚨Internship Alert!

An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement, providing invaluable experience within an academic and literary journal.

DEADLINE: Midnight, Sunday, 2 November 2025

Internship Opportunity: CHASE Editorial Placement at Wasafiri

An opportunity is available for a CHASE-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 7d

We've curated a selection of relevant reading materials for Black History Month. These issues focus on how we aesthetically and politically reckon with the Windrush scandal, as well as exploring The Caribbean Artists Movement and the Black British canon.

Windrush

In honour of Windrush Day, we are offering our 2023 summer special issue, Wasafiri 114:

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 7d

Come join us at our many October events!

From a conversation on belonging to writing when the world is ill, from a translators' pitching workshop to a public lecture on literary prizes, we have a lot happening this month!

All ticket links available in our bio.

See you there!

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Reyzl Grace | Завета Грейс @reyzlgrace.bsky.social · 8d

This is a beautiful reflection piece on language and heritage.

Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Feb 13

This new meditation piece by Anahit Ghazaryan, trans. by Ani Jilavyan asks: 'Why learn Armenian'? And what does language mean for a people?

Read now: www.wasafiri.org/content/medi...

Meditations: Some Kind of Satellite by Anahit Ghazaryan

In this Meditations piece, Anahit Ghazaryan contemplates what motivates people to learn Armenian — and how language itself is lost, reshaped, hidden…

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 8d

This International Translation Day, we're thrilled to announce two events with Anton Hur in London!

Anton will deliver a workshop and lecture on translation, Korean literature, literary prize culture, and more.

Click here for full details and registration: buff.ly/uQNOJRb

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 9d

We are thrilled to share the shortlists for the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged by Anton Hur (Fiction), @noreenmasud.bsky.social (Life Writing), and Yasmine Seale (Poetry), and chaired by Romesh Gunesekera.

Discover the shortlists in the full announcement here: buff.ly/KoSXsrb

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 12d

Read an extract from 'Why Does the Cat?', a short story from Bora Chung's latest collection, THE MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE (Dialogue Books), translated by @antonhur.com. In this terrifying – and sometimes wry – story, a man finds himself haunted by the ghost of his murder victim.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 13d

This year's Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize ceremony will be preceded by a roundtable on 'Translating Colour' with three prominent translators: Anita Baron-Williams, @sawadhussain.bsky.social, and Rahul Soni.

Please join us for what promises to be an illuminating evening:

The 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize Ceremony

Wasafiri will be returning to the Southbank Centre to celebrate our 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize prizewinners in fiction, life writing, and poetry…

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 14d

We're delighted to announce four curated online writing workshops tutored by our inaugural International Translator in Residence, the International Booker Prize winning writer-translator, Deepa Bhasthi.

The first pair of workshops will be held in autumn 2025.

Registration: buff.ly/Gguo10u

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 16d

Read an exclusive extract from Ning Ken's forthcoming novel, TIBETAN SKY, translated by Thomas Moran —a philosophical work of fiction about a disillusioned academic and the complex history of Tibet.

TIBETAN SKY is out with @sinoistbooks.bsky.social on 26 September.

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Exclusive Extract: Tibetan Sky by Ning Ken, trans. by Thomas Moran

Read an extract from Ning Ken's forthcoming novel Tibetan Sky – translated by Thomas Moran…

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 17d

Wasafiri, Centre for Contemporary Writing (Queen Mary University of London), and @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social present an afternoon of poetry with Sophie Chauhan, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, and lisa minerva luxx.

When: Sat, 27 September, 3.30-5.30pm
Where: Whitechapel Gallery, London

Toxic Love & Borders - Whitechapel Gallery

Centre for Contemporary Writing (Queen Mary University of London), Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Wasafiri magazine present an afternoon of poetry with Sophie Chauhan, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, and lisa…

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 19d

We're on Bookshop.org!

Every time you buy a book through our @bookshop.org page, a small percentage comes to us, helping to support the continued running of Wasafiri. Happy shopping!

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 21d

Wasafiri and Tagore's Salon are delighted to be co-hosting an event with writers Dur e Aziz Amna and @farah-ali.bsky.social, titled Writing Through Pain: On Labour and Literature.

When: Wed, 15 October, 7pm
Where: @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social, London
Tickets: £6

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 22d

It's here.

BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25

"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi

Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

Cover of Bad Language by So Mayer: hand-drawn illustration of an illuminated capital B, which is a grey dragon wrapped around a blue tree. The dragon has a red eye and smoke rising from its nostrils. The author's name and book title are written in a simple, non-joined-up cursive, as if on a chalkboard.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 23d

We are thrilled to showcase a special focus on Tibet in our latest issue, Wasafiri 123.

Many Tibets are displayed here. Old and new, sacred and secular, real and imagined, lost and found.' - Editorial by @sanagoyal.bsky.social

Wasafiri 123 is available to order now: buff.ly/89LLR9Q

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Reflections from the Margins: A Conversation with Tibetan Writers in Exile – Thinley Chodon, Tenzin Dickie, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, & Tsering Yangzom Lama

Tenzing Rigdol’s Biography of a Thought: A Mandala in the Heart of the MET by Sarah Magnatta

Poetry by Chime Lama

Life Writing by Tsering Woeser, translated by Dechen Pemba

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 25d

'Pain is the currency of this city.'

Artist, writer, and photographer Augustine Paredes reads from his poem 'The Love Motel', published in Wasafiri 122.

'The Love Motel' by Augustine Paredes

‘Pain is the currency of this city.’ Artist, writer, and photographer Augustine Paredes reads from his poem, ‘The Love Motel’, published in Wasafiri 122.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 26d

The Editorial of our latest issue, Wasafiri 123 - titled 'Red Matter, White Page' and written by our Editor, @sanagoyal.bsky.social – approaches blood as a thematic throughline, flowing through and between the varied writing and art in this issue.

Read in full now:

Red Matter, White Page

Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2025)

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 27d

We're delighted to be partnering with Birmingham Literature Festival for an event with writers Dalia Al-Dujaili and SJ Kim on the subject of belonging to a land and to a nation.

When: Saturday, 11 October, 5-6pm
Where: Birmingham Rep: The Door
Tickets: £8/£6.40 (concessions)

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 28d

📣 Orders are now open for our latest issue, Wasafiri 123!

Find interviews with Andre Bagoo, Cato Pedder, and Christina Sharpe, three translated Tamil poets, a poem by Devika Rege, and more fiction, reviews, articles, and poems.

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Wasafiri 123

Inside Wasafiri 123, you'll find interviews with Andre Bagoo and Christina Sharpe, a lead feature poem by Devika Rege, our 2024 Essay Prize winning articles…

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Read an exclusive extract from Sara Ahmed's forthcoming book, NO IS NOT A LONELY UTTERANCE: THE ART AND ACTIVISM OF COMPLAINING — on the various ways we can engage in complaint, refusal, and resistance with our dignity, including whistle-blowing, song, language, protest, and more.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Sep 7

Wasafiri is a magazine that thrives and survives from the support of our community.

Deputy Chair of Trustees, @flostadt.bsky.social, speaks about Wasafiri as an extraordinary forum for writing and ideas from across the globe.

Please consider subscribing to support our work: buff.ly/fKcSUXL

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