Calling all #poets! Our poetry submissions are now open for new collections of 55pp or more & pamphlets up to 25pp (max). Submit your work for consideration by 5pm Monday 30th September. Visit our submissions page for details serenbooks.com/submissions/. Zoë Brigley Rhian Edwards

👀 We’re OPENING SUBMISSIONS for our 2025-26 poetry list, for full collections and pamphlets, this incoming Monday 9 September 👀

You can now order Wasafiri’s mammoth and milestone 40th Anniversary, which considers our shared pasts and futures—offering up radical worlds, dreams, futures, and solidarities. A treasure, a gift, a collectible, a chunky slice of literary history. wasafiri.org/issues/wasafir…

NEW FELLOWSHIP: The Institute is delighted to announce a new Fellowship aimed at artists and creative practitioners of Palestinian heritage. The Artist at Risk Fellowship will support an artist to spend 2 months as a Visiting Fellow at IASH in May/June/July 2025. 🇵🇸

In case you haven't yet checked it out, "Revolutionary Papers" (Revolutionary Papers) is a new transnational archival project exploring 20th-century Left, Third World, internationalist, and anti-imperial periodicals from across the global South. Kudos, and so stunning ✊🏾✊🏾!

In the end the moths get everything even our hearts — from 'Moths' by Maya Caspari (Maya Caspari) propelmagazine.co.uk/maya-caspari-m… While subs are open for our next issue, edited by @helenmort, out in January, we're looking back at Issue 12, edited by Tishani Doshi –

Just very briefly back on here to say I’m so excited that my little poetry book will be out with Out-Spoken in March ✨!

🟡 Join us to celebrate the publication of Almost, with Tenderness by Maya Caspari (Maya Caspari), with Charlotte Shevchenko Knight (shevchenkonight) & hosted by editor Anthony Anaxagorou 🟡 Burley Fisher Books 6.30pm Thursday 3 April Free to attend; register here: burleyfisherbooks.com/products/poetr…

The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is open to works in translation for the very first time. Editor Sana Goyal Kotecha outlines why and how this is a major step for the prize and Wasafiri more widely, in our efforts to be as global as can be. buff.ly/BdwZnzn

✨✨✨Happy Publication Day to Maya Caspari whose brilliant debut pamphlet, ALMOST, WITH TENDERNESS, is out today ✨✨✨ Order your copy here: outspokenldn.com/shop/almost And join us at Burley Fisher Books on 3 April to celebrate the launch (registration link below)

Join us to celebrate the launch of Maya Caspari's Almost, with Tenderness on 3 April Burley Fisher Books – Maya will be joined by charlotte shevchenko knight and Editor Anthony Anaxagorou. Free to attend, but please do register here: burleyfisherbooks.com/products/poetr…

It's #WorldPoetryDay. Here's a round-up of new poetry collections by poets in the North. Everything is Present by Anna Woodford (Salt Publishing) An Interesting Detail by Kimberly Campanello (Bloomsbury Publishing) What She Said by Ilisha Thiru Purcell (Verve Books)

Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran (Bloodaxe Books) New Famous Phrases by Daniel Hinds (Broken Sleep Books) Almost, With Tenderness by Maya Caspari (Out Spoken Press) Subcutaneous by Maria Isakova-Bennett Wanderland by Sarah Clare Conlon (Red Ceilings Press)

(1/5) Congratulations to the National Poetry Competition longlist! Everyone on the longlist wrote a poem that stood out to the judges, Romalyn Ante, Stephen Sexton and John McAuliffe, out of over 21,000 other works. Well done to all of our longlisted poets!

If anyone wants a review copy of “Please Do Not Touch or Feed the Horses”, give me a shout on here or on the contact page of my website! (I have it on good authority that the horses, despite not wanting to be touched or fed, are very keen on being reviewed 🐎🐎🐎)

Congratulations to Wasafiri contributor Anthony V Capildeo on winning the Windham-Campbell Prizes Prize in Poetry this year! In celebration, we've made an interview between them and Palestinian writer Yousif M Qasmiyeh free access until 30 April: buff.ly/8sYBpuQ

Windham-Campbell Prizes This interview is conducted by our Associate Editor Maya Caspari, from our 40th anniversary issue Wasafiri 119: Futurisms. buff.ly/8sYBpuQ

Thank you to reader charlotte shevchenko knight & to everyone who came out to Burley Fisher Books yesterday for the launch of Maya Caspari’s Almost, with Tenderness ❤️

Such a lovely event, congratulations to Maya Caspari 👏💛✨

English: Shared Futures is the UK’s largest conference in English Studies. The 2025 edition takes places 3-5 July in York, UK. This panel will be chaired by Wasafiri Associate Editor Maya Caspari Please send proposals to [email protected] by Tuesday 20 May.