Excited to have my article on Palestinian prisoners' resistance practices published in the upcoming issue of Wasafiri (Abolitions: Writing Against Abandonment). Thanks to farhaana and Abeera. pre-order your copy online.

🚨We invite book workers everywhere to join 200+ signatories and sign our open letter renewing our call for Baillie Gifford to divest from the fossil fuel industry and from companies that profit from Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide. fossilfreebooks.org/baillie-giffor…

V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan is the winner of the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her novel Brotherless Night, published by @RandomHouse. The Prize awards $150,000USD to the winner, and is the largest English-language literary prize in the world for women and non-binary authors.

Summer has arrived at Wasafiri 🌞🌞🌞

If you're in NYC, join Radical Books Collective 🇵🇸🍉 and The Polis Project on May 15th at The People’s Forum for NAKBA THEN AND NOW: REFUSE SILENCE:

arablit.org/event/nakba-th…

More on a week of actions from Publishers for Palestine: publishersforpalestine.org

Join Wasafiri  Writer-In-Residence, This Kind of Black & Obsidian Foundation in celebrating the life, legacy, and verse of Professor Benjamin Zephaniah wasafiri.org/workshop-with-… Black Metics

it’s time to get tickets for the LITTLE ROT book launch!!!! monday, 6/17 at @bellhouseny📌🗓️🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/akwaeke-emez…

price includes a copy of the book and i’ll be in conversation with the brilliant @nk_adjei 🙌🏾

CFP klaxon! Really excited to be working on a special issue with Iqra Shagufta Cheema on such an important topic: “Ek Dost Kay Naam: Women’s Writings and Popular Literary Cultures in Urdu” 🌺

Abstracts: 250-300 words
Deadline: 30 May 2024
Email [email protected]

I have two spare tickets for Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time event at Waterstones Birmingham on 14 May. I am SO sad to miss it (and the stickers!!!).

DM if interested.

CALL FOR PITCHES of reported dispatches from student journalists at campuses in the US who were all so inspired by: on protesting the genocide in Gaza, how they've worked together in multifaith ways, set up encampments & the responses from the university etc.

Reaching out to the JAAG community. Help make JAAG Festival 2024 and Reflections Gallery happen. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/jaagpanjabi-…

I have two spare tickets for Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time event at Waterstones Birmingham on 14 May. I am SO sad to miss it (and the stickers!!!).

DM if interested.

I’m doing on online creative writing workshop based on the idea of “spaceship moments” in Isabel Waidner’s Sterling Karat Gold. Free! All welcome!

A statement from Book Workers for a Free Palestine on Zadie Smith’s recent essay in the The New Yorker, Shibboleth #zadiesmith

We started our 40th anniversary year with Wasafiri 117: The State of the Industry. Our spring issue reflects on the literary industry through a variety of perspectives from publishing to academia, via the work of writing, translating, publishing, teaching.
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Launching TOMORROW, special 2x issue in collaboration with Majalla 28, co-edited by Mohammed Zaqzooq and Mahmoud al-Shaer, w/contributions from more than 20 writers in Gaza + classic works, art, fiction, & poetry centering Gaza.

All profit from sales+ads go to our Gaza partners.

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