We're excited to announce the official launch party for our winter issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia, guest co-edited by Karina Lickorish Quinn and Leo Boix. When: Thursday, 5 February, 7-9.30pm Where: Reference Point, London Tickets: £12. Subsidised tickets available.

🌿 Happening next week! Join our Writer in Residence, Cara Thompson, for the first online workshop from her Slow Poetry: Writing through Hibernation series on 13 Jan. This workshop will encourage releasing productivity-driven output and embracing creative rest-olutions instead. 🎟️: buff.ly/fkAb31s

This sounds like a great event from @exiledwritersink.bsky.social! Taking place next Wednesday, 14 January, with our winter special issue editor – Karina Lickorish Quinn – and other Wasafiri friends. Do go along if you can.

Read an exclusive extract from acclaimed Mexican writer Jeannette L. Clariond's forthcoming collection, EVEN TIME BLEEDS (@princetonupress.bsky.social). These two poems are written in both Spanish and English, translated by Pulitzer Prize winner, Forrest Gander. buff.ly/NZLSiIx

📣 Orders are open for our latest issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia — British Latinx Writing & Art! Guest co-edited by Leo Boix and Karina Lickorish Quinn, this issue critically explores the vibrancy and creativity of the British Latin American and Latinx communities.

Wasafiri is seeking new trustees to expand our board, including experienced professionals with expertise in the following areas: Legal, Treasurer/Finance, and Fundraising. Deadline for applications: Midnight, Sunday 1 February Role descriptors and person specifications here:

From poetry and fiction to thought-provoking book reviews, art, life writing, and in-depth interviews, this landmark Armenian edition of @wasafirimag.bsky.social is a rich tapestry of modern Armenian voices. 🇦🇲 📕 Find it in our 2025 Holiday Book Guide: bit.ly/4oiSPB8

Find slowness, rest, healing, and growth in your writing practice in 2026 with our new Writer in Residence, Cara Thompson 🌿 The first workshop on Tuesday, 13 January will experiment with restorative, unhurried writing that embraces slowness as a creative companion. buff.ly/XM1hRmt

And we're out! 👋 The Wasafiri office is now closed until Monday, 5 January. All new orders will be shipped in the first week of January. Wishing you all a safe and merry festive season. We especially hope you can catch up on reading! With love, warmth, and solidarity, The Wasafiri team

Our Associate Editor Zoe Norridge reflects on her experience co-editing Wasafiri 104: Human Rights Cultures and how the magazine is a great place for amplifying writing from non-English languages in the Anglosphere and beyond. If you also value Wasafiri's work, then please support: buff.ly/B6eOI5K

In this moving tribute – with an accompanying visual travelogue spanning South Africa and Scotland – Kai Easton explores the legacy of late South African writer, Zoë Wicomb, reflecting especially on her relationship to photography. All images courtesy of Kai Easton. buff.ly/JlShoCS

From powerful, provocative arguments to candid, intimate insights into the labyrinths of the publishing world, our four most-read online pieces this year were by Abeera Khan, Sawad Hussain, @antonhur.com, & Sasha Debevec-McKenney. Which Wasafiri piece stayed with you this year? Let us know!

Have your say in shaping the growth and future of a leading literary publication – our short readership survey offers a space for you, as our readers, to give feedback on our work and share ideas on how we can grow as a magazine in the coming years. Closes at 11.59pm on 19 Jan. buff.ly/wQLvvBD

As part of our Writing the Self, Writing Berlin series, @divyaghelani.bsky.social spoke with Siddhartha Lokanandi, founder of Hopscotch Reading Room, a Berlin-based English-language bookshop since 2017 and a haven for the intellectual – and political – bibliophile. buff.ly/NOdz3y3

3 DAYS LEFT! Our festive sale ends on 16 December - sign up now for a one-year Wasafiri digital subscription for the reduced price of £20. Gain access to our entire 40+ years archive and early digital access to all our forthcoming issues as soon as they release. Go go go! buff.ly/jfkuWga

In collaboration with UK Small Press Futures – a collective of UK independent publishers – Wasafiri is hosting an afternoon of panels dedicated to the future of independent presses. When: Wed, 21 January, 2-6pm GMT Where: BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London Tickets: £15 buff.ly/YJJorHv

Weaving in her own personal experiences, Nathalie Teitler draws on the work of British Latinx writers Juana Adcock, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Patrizia Longhitano, and Marina Sánchez to explore the physicality of women's writing, migration, (dis)embodiment, and more, in this essay: buff.ly/p7eFCJc

Wasafiri's Deputy Editor, Vamika Sinha, spoke to Botswana-based writer Lauri Kubuitsile about her novel, THE SCATTERING — a work of historical fiction set against the backdrop of the Herero and Nama genocide and Second Anglo-Boer War in southern Africa. buff.ly/0EG5vfN

Our latest issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia - British Latinx Writing & Art is now available to read for our digital subscribers and those with access to Taylor & Francis 💻 If you’re unable to access Wasafiri digitally, preorder the print issue: buff.ly/OWMJ4pb

'There's never been a more important time to champion Wasafiri.' Our Trustee, Anjali Ramachandran, speaks about our magazine as a vital place for international writing in the contemporary landscape, and a platform that has helped many great writers break through. buff.ly/B6eOI5K

We are honoured to publish two new poems – 'Bird' and 'Just A Simple Life' – by Haia Mohammed, a 22-year-old poet from Khan Younis in Gaza, reflecting some of her experiences, pains, and dreams living through occupation and genocide. Read here: buff.ly/318kw57

Celebrate our forthcoming issue Wasafiri 124: Presencia & Resistencia, guest co-edited by Karina Lickorish Quinn and Leo Boix. This special event @britishlibrary.bsky.social brings together leading British Latinx writers including Juana Adcock and @yararf.bsky.social. buff.ly/uXSLTVQ

Our latest issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia – British Latinx Writing & Art, is available to preorder now! Guest edited by Leo Boix & Karina Lickorish Quinn, this issue critically explores the vibrancy and creativity of the British Latin American & Latinx communities.

Our festive offers are not over just yet! We're offering one-year Digital Subscriptions to Wasafiri for the reduced price of £20 ✨ Sale ends Tuesday 16 December. Don't miss this huge discount! buff.ly/ZBRR0BT

🎁 ONE DAY LEFT FOR OUR FESTIVE SALE: All Wasafiri bundles (four magazines curated around a specific subject, theme, or major writer in our archive) are on discount at £30 only until 1 Dec! The perfect gift for any literature/book lover in your life. Shop now: buff.ly/A9OF28H

Read an extract from a new anthology from @commapress.bsky.social, PALESTINE - 1: STORIES FROM THE EVE OF THE NAKBA, a collection of Palestinian writing, ed. by Basma Ghalayini. 'I Swear, This All Happened' is a magical realist short story by Liana Badr, trans. by Maisa Almanasreh. buff.ly/ZUnJTWn

Join three online workshops – curated and led by Wasafiri's Writer in Residence Cara Thompson – to explore how the earth’s natural rhythms can nurture a softer, more sustainable writing practice and directly inspire the works that we create. Concession passes available.

Selina Nwulu unpacks the impetus behind her debut essay collection, BLACK CLIMATES – 'an exploration of climate breakdown through the lens of the Black experience' – in a new essay for Wasafiri.org. Read now: buff.ly/vjbQ8eZ

It was a pleasure to work on these four beautiful magazines and collaborate with the many diverse individuals and institutions we worked with in 2025. We hope you'll pick up a copy, share with your friends, and support our work nurturing literary communities across the world.

Thanks to all who joined us for our annual Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize ceremony this year at Southbank Centre 🎊 It was a joy to celebrate our three winners Flora Beagley, Luke Liu, Jo Bardsley (Fiction), and all of our shortlistees! The 2026 Prize will open next year — until then!

We’re thrilled to reveal the cover of our winter 2025 issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia — British Latinx Writing & Art! Guest co-edited by Leo Boix and Karina Lickorish Quinn, the issue critically explores the vibrancy and creativity of the British Latinx communities.

It's time for our annual festive sale! ❄️🎁 We've curated bundles of four magazines each based on specific themes, contributors, and regions. Each bundle is on sale for £30 only, saving you 40%! Shop now: buff.ly/1gDBef9 Sale ends Monday, 1 December

Join Deepa Bhasthi – our inaugural International Translator in Residence – for her second online workshop next Saturday, 22 November. This is a unique opportunity for an intimate learning experience with an International Booker Prize-winning translator.

Wasafiri is a fantastic resource for students and scholars of literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and the humanities more widely. If you're a university student or academic, speak to your library about taking out an institutional digital subscription to Wasafiri: buff.ly/d1D44g4

It was a delight to host writer and translator @antonhur.com for a brilliant, punchy public lecture here in London on Korean literature in translation, literary prizes, race and discrimination in the publishing industry, and what success as a writer really means. Thanks to all for coming!

Shastri Akella reads from his short story, ‘Hail the Vande Mataram!' – published in Wasafiri 123. The story imagines a childhood friendship between the nephew of a freedom fighter and the son of British colonial officer General Dyer, in the weeks leading up to the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Thank you to Wasafiri, and to Sam Dapanas for their incisive, deeply attuned questions. What a pleasure to chat ANNAH, INFINITE as speculative nonfiction and translation of a painting, the 1965 genocide, refusing ableist biases in art and literature, and more. #CripLit #Xl8

Alton Melvar M Dapanas speaks to @mailbykite.bsky.social on how her latest book ANNAH, INFINITE reshapes speculative nonfiction, and disputes the racial, gendered, and ableist biases of fraught literary and artistic spaces. Read now: buff.ly/YrKYEPD

It was a packed room for our Toxic Love & Borders event with Sophie Chauhan, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, lisa minerva luxx, & Vida Adamczewski ✨ The poetry afternoon was held at whitechapelgallery.bsky.social in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Writing (QMUL) & @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social.

Congratulations to Wasafiri friends and contributors @juanapoetry.bsky.social, Don Mee Choi, Han Kang, and George Szirtes on gaining a place on the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2025! 🙌

If you missed our annual New Writing Prize ceremony last week, here's what our stellar judges had to say on the winners' work ... The winning pieces will be published in print in our Spring 2026 issue, so watch this space. Congratulations once again to Jo Bardsley, Flora Beagley, and Luke Liu!

Read an extract from @suchmayer.bsky.social's forthcoming book, BAD LANGUAGE, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech, and how language has been used – and abused – collectively and in their own life.

Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright Wole Soyinka has had his US visa revoked under the Trump administration. Wasafiri stands in solidarity with Soyinka in support of free speech and expression for all. We are sharing his words on the power & endurance of literature from Wasafiri's 1993 issue

Sarah Magnatta – Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art – introduces her Art essay in our latest issue, Wasafiri 123. As part of the issue's special section on Tibet, she writes on artist Tenzing Rigdol's exhibition BIOGRAPHY OF A THOUGHT, held at the MET in 2024.

Franklyn Usouwa's acerbic short story is a satire set in an unnamed African country. Through a fictional character named Bobo, Usouwa critiques systems of censorship, repression, unbridled technological growth, and more. buff.ly/puXJCe8

Part of our Writing the Self, Writing Berlin series, three Berlin-based writers – @Rajeevbalasu, Vijay Khurana & @DenizUtlu – sat down for a filmed conversation with Wasafiri's @DivyaGhelani on what it means to write in Berlin today. Watch now: buff.ly/PEpBfh6

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize! 🌟 Poetry: Flora Beagley for ‘Sutton Hoo’ 🌟 Fiction: @jobardsley.bsky.social for ‘Iko of Benin, King's Diver’ 🌟 Life Writing: Luke Liu for ‘Chair Tombs on the Hill’ www.wasafiri.org/news-and-eve...

‘What becomes of gender and sexuality amidst the collapse of the liberal world order?’ In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’ buff.ly/vKAZqnk

Huge congratulations to Feryal Ali-Gauhar, AN ABUNDANCE OF WILD ROSES has won the 2025 @banffcentre.bsky.social Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival Mountain Fiction & Poetry Award! ‘The language sings, weaving a spell’ @wasafirimag.bsky.social

Only 1 week left to apply for an editorial placement at Wasafiri – gain invaluable experience within an internationally recognised academic and literary journal. DEADLINE: Midnight, Sunday, 2 November Apply here: buff.ly/2GT6zWi