On this day in 2017, Jane Bryce wrote, A Sort of Career: Remembering Buchi Emecheta Wasafiri: wasafiri.org/article/sort-c… #secondclasscitizenis50 Places Emecheta in context of African women writers and Black British writing from the 60s. #bwbc2404 #7

Early career academics, pHd students, and researchers - we want to read your work! The 2024 Wasafiri Essay Prize is open for entries until 31 May 2024.

Submit your work for the chance to win a £250 cash prize, publication, and more: buff.ly/3AwaGy6

Our Writer-in-Residence 2023/2024 is poet, writer, and theatre-maker This Kind of Black.

Spaces are still available for his online poetry workshop 'Finding Form', on 10 April. Plus! Booking opens soon for his in-person workshop in Manchester.

Learn more: buff.ly/43xeU6

A Wasafiri curated panel at JAAG 2024! Chaired by our Editor & Publishing Director Sana Goyal Kotecha, it features Suna, Sharan Hunjan, & Naush Sabah, who will discuss the poetic tools they draw on as they seek to close the gap between languages and geographies through translation:

for Wasafiri i reviewed two books that combine facts, figures, & fiction to evaluate the current publishing & literary prize/prestige landscape. the gist: it’s still flat, White, nationalist, & vanilla out there, but Tik Tok/Gen Z readers may be the agents of chaos it needs.

There’s still time to sign up for the second in our spring poetry writing workshop series tutored by This Kind of Black

Find out more and book your space below: wasafiri.org/online-worksho…

Call for Submissions! 📣 The 2024 Wasafiri New Writing Prize is open until Jul 1 5pm (BST). Celebrating 40 years of the Mag & 15 years of the prize. Open to all unpublished writers. Winners in Fiction, Life Writing & Poetry receive £1k & publication. wasafiri.org/new-writing-pr…

🚨 A new shipment of Wasafiri 117 has arrived! 🚨

And, in front of our magazine archives, in our London office, seemed like the perfect place to film our #unboxing video for Wasafiri 117: The State of the Industry.

Get yours now: buff.ly/43A2IjS

Our spring issue showcases a series of white out poetry from Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths is OUT NOW
Yilin plays with the page and with language in interesting and innovative ways — and the work is worth reading in print (if we do say so ourselves). Grab a copy of Wasafiri 117: wasafiri.org/product/wasafi…

We are very sorry to hear of Maryse Condé’s passing. The international impact of her prizewinning work will be remembered for generations to come.