🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Join Wasafiri Editor & Publishing Director Sana Goyal Kotecha at the WritingWestMidlands National Writers Conference on Saturday 31 May. The full day event covers timely issues including digital promotion, funding opportunities & the future for writers. Tickets here: buff.ly/xRngFF0

We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025 is Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi. Here's everything you need to know about the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

We are so proud of them. Deepa Bhasthi and Banu Mushtaq, winners of this year’s International Booker Prize. 🎉

‘The revolution, it seems, will be published after all.’ ❤️🪔

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…

You can now read International-Booker-Prize-Winner Banu Mushtaq’s acceptance speech, in full, over on our Ampersand blog: andotherstories.org/2025/05/21/ban…

“Too many people regard translation as the separation of a text from its source culture when it is just as much the integration of a text into a new context.” My final say on the The Booker Prizes finalists 💜

Watch Ambika Mod read from Heart Lamp, the #InternationalBooker2025 winning book written by Banu Mushtaq and translated by Deepa Bhasthi. youtu.be/C2XZ8R2U_k4

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

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

‘Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it.’ — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died at 87.

Honored to have had the chance to spend time and share words with this literary genius and revolutionary before his passing. theparisreview.org/interviews/788…

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 🕊️

Our outgoing Translator-in-Residence Sawad Hussain on translation & cricket 🏏

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

I have a couple of complimentary tickets to this event on 6 June — DM me if you’d like to come along

Please join us in welcoming three new interns to the Wasafiri team — Malak Abdelkhalek, Esme Feurtado, and Kareena Gianani! Thanks to @chase_dtp and @lahp_dtp for their continued support. We are delighted to see the Wasafiri team expanding! #creativecareers