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Beatscape Radio Show (Underground electronic Music In The Mix)Beatscape #729 21.02.2025 (House, Techno Dubstep & Jungle)Jeff Mills - Theme From Star Child - Star Child - Axis
Diesler - Intervention (original mix) - Intervention - A Little Something Recordings
Architectural - Rousing Rhythms - Good Night, Whatever That Is - Turbo Recordings
Huxley - Obsessed - Monie - Heattraxx
Henry Saiz - Love Mythology (Legowelt remix) - Love Mythology Remixes - Natura Sonoris
Wasafiri - Future Step (CPEN remix) - Future Step Remixes - Skylark Soul Co
Chaos In the CBD/Nathan Haines - Love Language - Love Language - In Dust We Trust
Matisa - Love Love - In My Head - Slacker 85
Lem...2025-04-032h 01
5x15Nick Makoha on The New CarthaginiansWe're back at The Tabernacle in March with another fantastic line-up of speakers! Join us for an inspiring evening of storytelling.
Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright based in London. His debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize and was one of the Guardian’s Best Books of the Year. His poems have appeared in The New York Times, the Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Wasafiri, Boston Review, and Callaloo. He is the founder of Obsidian Foundation, winner of the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and the Poetry London Prize. His new collection, The New Carthaginians, is...2025-03-2118 min
A Thriving FutureRegenerative Governance with Erica Neve and Patrick AndrewsNature on the Board? Steward ownership? Employee ownership? Self-managing teams? For those seeking to establish regenerative organisations, the options in terms of how those organisations should be governed can feel overwhelming.In this episode we dive deeper into the submerged world of governance and look at what it actually is, surface some principles of more regenerative approaches, jargon-bust a few buzzwords and look at some examples of organisations doing things differently.My partners in this exploration are the co-founders of the aptly-named new venture, Regenerative Governance, Erica Neve and Patrick Andrews. Erica is a leader...2025-03-061h 25
Deep Space Podcast - hosted by Marcelo Tavaresweek491 Deep Space Podcast
E ae!Welcome to Deep Space Podcast – 15 years! Many thanks for listening.
I’m so glad to bring today for the 2nd hour Steve DEEEPERHOLIC, from South Africa!Many thanks Steve for joining for the third time 10 years after of your last guestmix!Please check more infos about Deeperholic at:https://www.instagram.com/stevedeeperholic
A big shout to the Spatial Listener of the week Maury Payan! Thanks a lot for your support!
Purchase any subscriptions to premiere this and all the future episodes plus download the full mix by D...2025-02-282h 00
BeatscapeBeatscape 22.02.2025Jeff Mills – Theme From Star Child – Star Child – Axis
Diesler – Intervention (original mix) – Intervention – A Little Something Recordings
Architectural – Rousing Rhythms – Good Night, Whatever That Is – Turbo Recordings
Huxley – Obsessed – Monie – Heattraxx
Henry Saiz – Love Mythology (Legowelt remix) – Love Mythology Remixes – Natura Sonoris
Wasafiri – Future Step (CPEN remix) – Future Step Remixes – Skylark Soul Co
Chaos In the CBD/Nathan Haines – Love Language – Love Language – In Dust We Trust
Matisa – Love Love – In My Head – Slacker 85
Lem Springsteen/Danism – Extension (Danism + Train extended remix) – Extension (Danism + Train Extended Remix) – SoSure M...2025-02-222h 01
The Poetry Exchange98. White Egrets (I) by Derek Walcott - A Friend to Nick MakohaIn this episode of The Poetry Exchange, poet Nick Makoha talks with us about the poem that has been a friend to him: 'White Egrets (I)' by Derek Walcott.Nick actually joined us back in 2017 at Pushkin House, London, and we are delighted to be sharing this conversation with you now. It is very special to hear Fiona in this conversation, with all her usual warmth and brilliance.Nick Makoha's latest collection 'The New Carthaginians' is published this month from Allen Lane - you can order/buy your copy here.2025-02-0626 minThe Poetry Exchange98. White Egrets (I) by Derek Walcott - A Friend to Nick MakohaIn this episode of The Poetry Exchange, poet Nick Makoha talks with us about the poem that has been a friend to him: 'White Egrets (I)' by Derek Walcott.Nick actually joined us back in 2017 at Pushkin House, London, and we are delighted to be sharing this conversation with you now. It is very special to hear Fiona in this conversation, with all her usual warmth and brilliance.Nick Makoha's latest collection 'The New Carthaginians' is published this month from Allen Lane - you can order/buy your copy here.2025-02-0626 min
I Do What I Do PodAyanna Lloyd Banwo Does What She Does🗣️🗣️My guest for Episode 12 📣📣
The bestest writer and my bonfide AYANNA LLOYD BANWO ❤️
In the final episode of 'I Do What I Do,' I talk to my bonafide (most would call her my bestie, but bonafide is deeper than that), Ayanna Lloyd Banwo aka Yanns (for me). Yanns is one of the best writers out of our island, and we talk like we always do, with heart, truth, inside moments, and connection. We talk about Ayanna's journey from her storytelling roots in Trinidad (our home) to becoming an multi-award winning published author, based in England. Her debut no...2024-12-051h 28
ChrononautsKylas Chunder Dutt - "A Journal of 48 Hours In The Year 1945" (1835) | Chrononauts Episode 46.1Containing Matters most Revolting.
Bibliography:
Banerjee, Suparno - "Other tomorrows: postcoloniality, science fiction and India" (2010)
Banerjee, Suparno - "Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity" (2020)
Bhattacharya, Atanu and Hiradhar, Preet - "Own Maps/Imagined Terrain: The Emergence of Science Fiction in India", Extrapolation, vol. 55, no. 3 (2014)
Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva - "Aliens of the same world: The Case of Bangla Science Fiction" (2011) https://humanitiesunderground.org/2011/11/07/aliens-of-the-same-world-the-case-of-bangla-science-fiction/
Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva - introduction to "The Inhumans and other stories" (2024)
Harder, Hans - "Indian and International: Some Examples of Mara...2024-10-2742 min
The Closet Writer ChroniclesBhavika Govil: A Novel DreamThe episode opens with Bhavika talking about what creativity means to her. We talk about how her interest in writing started and her early days as a journalist. Bhavika talks about why she chose to study writing formally and how that’s helped her craft and growth. We delve into her writing process with regard to POV, writing routine and structure. Later, she shares some of her favourite books and TV shows. She also shares a bit about her debut novel, Hot Water. The episode ends with an excerpt from Hot Water narrated by Bhavika.
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The Writing LifeWriting the 'difficult second novel' with Melissa FuIn this episode of The Writing Life, NCW Programme Officer Vicki is joined by novelist and NCW Academy tutor Melissa Fu to discuss the difficult task of writing your second novel.
Melissa’s writing appears in several publications including The Lonely Crowd, International Literature Showcase, Bare Fiction, Wasafiri Online, and The Willowherb Review. In 2019, her debut poetry pamphlet was published by the Hedgehog Poetry Press. Her first novel, Peach Blossom Spring, was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick in the UK and a 2022 Indies Introduce title for the American Booksellers Association. It has also been nominated as 2022 Bo...2024-08-1241 min
Rattle Poetryep. 252 - Maaz Bin BilalMaaz Bin Bilal is a poet, translator, and academic. His first collection of poetry, Ghazalnama: Poems from Delhi, Belfast, and Urdu, was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. His translations of Fikr Taunvis’s Partition diary, The Sixth River, and Mirza Ghalib’s Persian long poem on Banaras, Chiragh-e-Dair, Temple Lamp, were also critically noted. Reviews of his books may be found in Wasafiri, World Literature Today, The Hindu, Indian Express, and other publications. His poems have been translated into German, Hindi, Irish, and Bengali. Maaz was the recipient of the Charles Wallace Trust fellowship in writing and translation in W...2024-07-082h 03
New Books in LiteratureChika Unigwe, "The Middle Daughter" (Dzanc Books, 2023)The Middle Daughter (Dzanc Books, 2023) by Chika Unigwe opens with a happy, well-to-do family living in a guarded community in Nigeria. The loving father owns a business, the formidable mother is a doctor, one daughter is at university in America and the other daughters are in private school. The story is told from the perspective of the youngest daughter, Ugo, and middle daughter, Nani, whose life in thrown off balance by the death of her father. A single bad choice leads to her giving up a college education in America to become a browbeaten mother of three married to a...2024-01-1619 min
Arts & IdeasSam Selvon and The Lonely LondonersCaribbean migrants striving to make their lives in London are the focus of this 1956 novel by Samuel Selvon. Written in creolized English, it established him as an important Caribbean voice. In an event organised in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and the British Library, Shahidha Bari is joined by the poet Anthony Joseph, the writer Guy Gunaratne and by Susheila Nasta who is a writer, critic and literary executor and representative for the Sam Selvon literary estate.Guy Gunaratne‘s first novel In Our Mad And Furious City won the International Dylan Thomas Prize, Jhalak Pr...2023-11-2144 min
ForthwriteJACQUELINE CROOKSAnna and Sam chat to Women's Prize 2022 short-listed author Jacqueline Crooks about her creative process, keeping her writing free and we hear a reading from her novel Fire Rush.
Jacqueline was born in Jamaica and grew up in 70s and 80s Southall, part of London's migrant community, carving out a space through music, where she raved at dub reggae dances. She has carved out a career for herself in the community sector working with Black and minoritised charities. Her stories have been longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize and the BBC National Short...2023-11-1030 min
5x15Octavia Bright On This Ragged Grace: A Memoir Of Recovery And Renewal5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each.
Octavia Bright is a writer and broadcaster. She co-hosts Literary Friction, the literary podcast and NTS Radio show, with Carrie Plitt. Recommended by the New York Times, Guardian, BBC Culture, Electric Literature, Sunday Times and others, it has run for ten years and has listeners worldwide. She has also presented programmes for BBC R4 including Open Book, and hosts literary events for bookshops, publishers, and festivals – such as Cheltenham Literature Festival and events for Th...2023-09-2813 min
The Literary CityReason And Hope In A Dark Time With History's Angel And Anjum HasanSend us a textGood literature can help us navigate our own emotions and motivations, and it helps us see the world through the eyes of the writer. The best literature touches our hearts and our minds. It triggers our emotions, and makes us think critically about the world around us, by challenging our assumptions and consequently, expanding our understanding of what it means to be human.Some writers write from the heart, some from the head. The truly literary among them speak from the junction of emotion and reason—and this is what makes li...2023-09-2646 min
Tender Buttons030 Octavia Bright: Writing from LifeIn this special live episode, we speak to writer and broadcaster Octavia Bright about her memoir, This Ragged Grace. We discuss the ways in which Octavia's roles as an interviewer, carer and linguist informed her process as an active listener and developed her writing voice. We explore the distinction between the pornographic and the erotic in relation to memoir writing, and discuss the process of revealing and concealment when writing from lived experience. We chat about the importance of images and symbols in articulating trauma, with reference to Louise Bourgeois' 'Spiral Woman' as a symbol which holds contradictions within...2023-08-2556 minA Thriving FutureA Deep Dive into Self-Management with Kate SimpsonThis epsiode does exactly what it says on the tin. Me and Kate Simpson, the Director of the Systemcraft Institute at Wasafiri, have a full-on geek-out about the ins and outs of self-management.Having more self-managing, adaptive teams and structures is one of the key characteristics people most often mention when they talk about becoming a more regenerative organisation. However this area is often confusing and filled with complex theories and myths. In this discussion Kate lays out the very practical methods and practices that Wasifiri uses to get the optimum benefits of this more distributed, dynamic...2023-08-011h 30
BookRisingMehfil 5 - Translating South AsiaThis Mehfil explores the exciting world of South Asian translation especially the regional and vernacular literature that has lately been garnering international attention and winning prestigious awards. In Translating South Asia, host Amrita Ghosh talks to two renowned translators from the neighboring countries of India and Bangladesh. The conversation is not only about translations from Bengali to English but also the reverse, and how it plays out in the publishing world in the subcontinent. Arunava Sinha and Shabnam Nadiya take us on their journey into how they began translating and how it became a vocation. They speak about their...2023-05-041h 04
All Write in Sin CityThe Middle Daughter with Chika UnigweChika Unigwe was born in Enugu, Nigeria. She was educated at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and the Catholic University of Leuven prior to earning PhD from Leiden University in the Netherlands. She now lives in the United States and teaches at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. Her work has been widely translated and has won multiple awards. Unigwe’s previous publications include the poetry collections Tear Drops and Born in Nigeria, novels The Phoenix, On Black Sisters’ Street, Night Dancer, and The Black Messiah, and the short story collection Better Never than Late, along with numerous other short stor...2023-04-3033 minNew Books in LiteratureOmolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi, "Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories" (Amistad Press, 2022)Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi’s novel Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories (Amistad 2022), is a moving and unforgettable collection of stories that span a lifetime. Four young girls rebel against a boarding school principal and the aftermath stays with them throughout their lives in this complex weaving of relationships and customs. Stories about immigration, powerful mothers and strong-willed daughters lead into stories about raising boys, searching for home, and seeking happiness. Ogunyemi references Nigerian history and traditions prior to the changes enforced by the missionaries, and considers a dystopian future, but the friends continue to love and...2023-04-1831 min
Better KnownKevin Jared HoseinKevin Jared Hosein discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Kevin Jared Hosein is a Caribbean novelist. He has also worked as a secondary school Biology teacher for over a decade. He was named overall winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018, and was the Caribbean regional winner in 2015. He has published two books: The Repenters and The Beast of Kukuyo. The latter received a CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, and both had been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His writings, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, have been published...2023-02-1227 min
Arts CallingEp. 81 Camille U. Adams | The memoir, Caribbean lit, and uncovering the pastHi there,
Today I am honored to be arts calling memoirist Camille U. Adams!
About our guest:
Camille U. Adams is a memoirist from Trinidad and Tobago. She earned her MFA from CUNY and is a current Ph.D. Candidate who holds a McKnight Doctoral Fellowship at her program. Camille is an alum of Tin House Summer Workshop and Kenyon Writer’s Workshop. Camille has received a fellowship from Roots Wounds Word and scholarships from Community of Writers, Kweli Literary Festival, Grubstreet, and VONA. Her writing has been long-listed in the Graywolf Creative Nonfiction Prize 2022, se...2023-01-1947 min
Nothing Without UsIn focus: Creative collaboration with Darren Chetty"We're so sort of conditioned to think of writing as this solitary thing where one person tells you how it is - that collaboration is seen as, as less interesting."In this distilled episode Angie talks to Darren Chetty about his varied family background in Wales, the Netherlands and South Africa, and his focus on collaboration through his disparate work in anti racism in primary schools, academic writing, philosophy of education, Hip Hop Ed and DEI consultancy. Darren Chetty taught in London primary schools for twenty years before becoming a Teaching Fellow at UCL Institute o...2023-01-1916 min
Nothing Without UsIn conversation with Darren Chetty“I remember talking to my PhD supervisor at the time, and saying I'm really getting fed up with being the angriest person in the room. And his response was, you need to find yourself some new rooms.”In this episode Angie talks to Darren Chetty about his origin story, including his varied family background in the Netherlands and South Africa, and his focus on collaboration through his disparate work in anti racism in primary schools, academic writing, philosophy of education, Hip Hop Ed and DEI consultancy. Darren Chetty taught in London primary schools for twenty years...2022-11-1749 min
FR. JOHN MUSOLO, C.M.We are pilgrims2Wasafiri2022-10-1211 min
BookRisingRadical Publishing Futures 8: Bakwa MagazineThe 8th episode of the Radical Publishing Futures series features Dzekashu MacViban, writer, editor and founder of Bakwa Magazine. Guest host Bhakti Shringarpure speaks with him about how it all began and the ways in which they adapt to the changing publishing landscape. Bakwa magazine was founded in 2011 in Yaoundé, Cameroon with the goal of infusing energy into the literary and cultural life of the country. Bakwa publishes in English and remains a staunchly print publication while creatively navigating the challenges posed by large, corporate digital platforms. Bakwa innovates constantly with projects such as the Bakwa Magazine Reading Series, Ba...2022-09-1433 min
Conversations in Atlantic TheoryAndil Gosine on Nature's Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the CaribbeanThis discussion is with Dr. Gosine, a Professor of Environmental Arts and Justice at York University in Toronto. His publications include co-authorship of the text Environmental Justice and Racism in Canada and contributions to many journals including Small Axe, Wasafiri, Sexualities, Topia, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Art in America, as well as scholarly anthologies. His artwork has been exhibited internationally at various galleries and museums and he most recently curated the critically acclaimed exhibition "everything slackens in a wreck" at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York. His newest book, Nature's Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the...2022-09-011h 09
CraftSaidiya Hartman – Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments A revolution took place in the United States after Emancipation. A great migration north of the formerly enslaved brought with it convulsive changes in the organisation of cities, the shape of communities, and the practices of everyday life. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals (2019), Saidiya Hartman charts the nature of those changes, tracking African American women and queer radicals who were pathologised in their time period and reframing them as revolutionaries, the avant-garde of new ways of living in the early twentieth century. In this final episode o...2022-08-3130 min
The Literary Life with Mitchell KaplanMonique Roffey: How to Write About Colonialism Without Talking About ColonialismOn today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan is joined by Monique Roffey to discuss her novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch, out now from Knopf.Monique Roffey is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of seven books, four of which are set in Trinidad and the Caribbean region. The Mermaid of Black Conch won the 2020 Costa Book of the Year Award and was short-listed for several other major prizes. Roffey’s work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Wasafiri, and...2022-08-0529 minCraftMeena Kandasamy – Women Dreaming, by SalmaLiterary translations are everywhere, but how and why they’re undertaken is often hidden. In this special episode, that coincides with the beginning of Women in Translation Month, poet and novelist Meena Kandasamy explains her routes into and through her translation of Tamil writer Salma’s novel Women Dreaming. The book details the experiences of an extended family of Muslim women who live and long in a small village, and who are forced to confront cultural and practical obstacles to the attainment of their dreams. In this episode, Meena discusses Salma’s reputation and importance in India, the way the trans...2022-08-0321 minCraftSuhaiymah Manzoor-Khan – Postcolonial BanterSuhaiymah Manzoor-Khan burst onto the international poetry scene when a recording of her performance of her Islamophobia-excoriating 'This Is Not a Humanising Poem' at the 2017 Roundhouse Poetry Slam went viral, gathering over two million views online. Since then, she has become an outspoken critic of the marginalisation of Muslims in Britain, an educator, and a writer of renown, with work published in The Guardian, The Independent and several anti-racist anthologies, and performances around the world. She is the co-author of A Fly Girl’s Guide to University: Being Women of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Power and El...2022-06-2930 minCraftBernardine Evaristo – LaraHow do you tell the story of those who haven't had their stories told? Bernardine Evaristo is a Booker-Prize-winning novelist and decades-long champion of up-and-coming writers. On this episode, she describes her own early career: her years of drafting, redrafting, publishing, then redrafting again, her first verse novel Lara (1997 & 2009). Written in the narrative poetry form that has become Bernardine's signature, Lara spans generations and continents to present the origins of a mixed family much like Bernardine's own. Her first foray into novel writing, it charted a course and explored themes that would define her career.'I...2022-05-2525 min
Soma Nami PodcastEp 6: Troy Onyango on Lolwe and working on his writing craft. Part 2/2On this episode, we continue the conversation between the Soma Nami Duo and Troy Onyango on reading, writing, Lolwe the literary magazine and much more.
Troy is a writer and editor from Kisumu, Kenya. Troy’s work has been published Prairie Schooner, Doek!, Wasafiri, Isele Magazine, Johannesburg Review of Books, AFREADA, Nairobi Noir, Dgeku Magazine, and Transition among others. He is also an avid reader and the Founder and Editor in Chief of Lolwe. Troy’s Short Story collection titled ‘For What Are Butterflies without Their Wings’ will be published later this year by Masobe Books. Keep your eyes peeled f...2022-05-1129 minSoma Nami PodcastEp 5: Troy Onyango on reading and the books that inspire him. Part 1/2On this episode, we listen to a conversation between the Soma Nami Duo and Troy Onyango on reading, writing, Lolwe the literary magazine and much more.
Troy is a writer and editor from Kisumu, Kenya. Troy’s work has been published Prairie Schooner, Doek!, Wasafiri, Isele Magazine, Johannesburg Review of Books, AFREADA, Nairobi Noir, Dgeku Magazine, and Transition among others. He is also an avid reader and the Founder and Editor in Chief of Lolwe. Troy’s Short Story collection titled ‘For What Are Butterflies without Their Wings’ will be published later this year by Masobe Books. Keep your e...2022-05-0334 minCraftRob Nixon – Slow ViolenceRob Nixon is the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor of the Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University. His fourth book, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011), uniquely made waves across the academic fields of the humanities and in the world of climate change activism. In this episode, Rob details the book's origins in his campaigning for the release of Ken Saro-Wiwa, in his anti-apartheid activism, and in his writing about the nuclear aftermath of the US-Iraq War. 'This is a book that didn't intend to become a book.'2022-03-3125 minCraftJohny Pitts – AfropeanJohny Pitts is a multiple-award-winning writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist, originally from Sheffield, England. His first book, Afropean (2020), combines travel writing, photography, history, and slices of memoir into a nonfiction work that seeks to sketch the many lives lived by Black people in contemporary Europe. In this fascinating interview, he tells the story of how he moved from wandering the streets and record stores of his hometown, lost, to becoming the head of continent-wide network of Black writers committed to capturing their experiences in Europe – in all their beauty and challenge. 'Who are the members of...2022-03-0832 minCraftDaniel Mella – Older Brother (El Hermano Mayor)Daniel Mella is one of the leading writers in contemporary Latin American literature. Born and based in Montevideo, Uruguay, he is a two-time winner of the Bartolomé Hildago Prize. His autofiction novel El Hermano mayor (2017) is his first translated into English, by Megan McDowell, as Older Brother (Charco Press, 2018). In this episode, he discusses the difficult process of converting the real-life tragedy that inspired the novel into a fictionalised account, the dangers of viewing the world through aesthetic eyes, and the revelatory power of dreaming. ‘It wouldn't have been a true book if it was only sad...2022-01-2727 min
Shorts.How To Marry An African PresidentThis week we're reading "How To Marry An African President" by Erica Sugo Anyadike. This story follows the relationship between a secretary and the President of an unnamed African country from the beginning of their courtship. Through a second person narrative, we see their relationship develop and their power corrupt. The story was shortlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Queen Mary Wasafiri Writing prize and the AKO Caine Prize for African writing.Link to story: How To Marry An African President by Erica Sugo AnyadikeTwitter: @shortsthepodInstagram: @shortsthepodcast...2022-01-2448 min
BULAQ | بولاقA Thousand And One DreamsAn abbreviated version of The Nights will be coming out in Fall 2021, in Seale's translation for W. W. Norton. The fuller Nights is currently set for 2023. You can follow the Nights Bot, with which Seale shares fragments of her translation, on Twitter. You can watch a recording of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2020 The Bookseller Webinar -The global influence of the Arabian Nights, with Richard van Leeuwen, Marina Warner, and Yasmine Seale, on YouTube. You can read Seale's talk with Veronica Esposito, “Wild Irreverence”: A Conversation about Arabic Translation with Yasmine Seale, ...2021-12-2354 minCraftChen Chen – Nature PoemChen Chen is an award-winning poet based in the United States. In this episode, he talks about the composition, editing, re-editing (and re-editing), process of his poem 'Nature Poem' published in his debut National Book award longlisted collection When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017 and Bloodaxe Books, 2019). On apocalyptic pineapples, giving yourself permission, and what writers can learn from Marie Kondo. 'Sometimes you have to make mistakes, you have to allow yourself to go on tangents, on little side adventures ... and then return home.'...2021-12-1526 minCraftNina Mingya Powles – Tiny MoonsNina Mingya Powles is a writer and zinemaker from Aotearoa New Zealand. In this wide-ranging reflection on writing her memoir and travel diary Tiny Moons, she discusses trying (and failing) to become more Chinese in Shanghai, the language of the body, and the politics of the untranslated. 'I want to intentionally decentre English as the main language and decentre Western ideas about Asia and Asian languages ...' In 2018, Nina was one of three winners of the Women Poets' Prize, and in 2019 she won the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing an...2021-11-0328 min
CraftCraft - Official TrailerCalling all lovers of reading and literature! Join Wasafiri's Malachi McIntosh and your favourite international writers including Daniel Mella, Chen Chen, Bernadine Evaristo, and Raymond Antrobus to take you on a journey behind the scenes and unpack the often-hidden side of how their work was created. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-10-1501 min
The Authorpreneur Secret$™ PodcastEp. 19: How to Win Book Awards & Get a Traditional Publishing Deal with Dr. Sharma TaylorHow does one win book/writing awards and get a traditional publishing deal?
Dr. Sharma Taylor is a multiple award-winning Jamaican writer and a corporate attorney. She breaks down the process and tells us how she was able to bag a 2-book traditional deal.
Sharma has been the recipient of the 2020 Wasafiri Queen Mary New Writing Prize, the 2020 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award and the 2019 Bocas Lit Fest’s Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize.
Her debut novel What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You is scheduled to be published by Vir...2021-09-0641 min
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesArt and Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in ConversationPart of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. In his autobiography, The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah (2018), award-winning poet, lyricist, musician, and activist Benjamin Zephaniah speaks out candidly about the writer’s responsibility to step outside the medium of literature and engage in political activism: “You can’t just be a poet or writer and say your activism is simply writing about these things; you have to do something as well, especially if your public profile can be put to good use.” In conversation with Elleke Boehmer...2021-08-311h 08TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesArt and Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in ConversationPart of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. In his autobiography, The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah (2018), award-winning poet, lyricist, musician, and activist Benjamin Zephaniah speaks out candidly about the writer’s responsibility to step outside the medium of literature and engage in political activism: “You can’t just be a poet or writer and say your activism is simply writing about these things; you have to do something as well, especially if your public profile can be put to good use.” In conversation with Elleke Boehmer...2021-08-311h 08
LoL (Love of Literature)LoL(Love of Literature)- Ep 13 (Cruising through rejections)Guest Bio- Abdullah Khan
bdullah Khan is an Indian novelist, screenwriter, literary critic and banker. Born in a village near Motihari, Bihar, Abdullah was initially educated in madarsa (Islamic seminary) and Urdu medium school. In the mid-1990s, he discovered that George Orwell was born in Motihari. And, this Orwell’s connection with his home district drew him towards literature. Abdullah’s writings have appeared in Brooklyn Rail (New York), Wasafiri (London), The Hindu (India), The Daily Star (Bangladesh) and Friday Times (Pakistan) among others. His debut film as a screenwriter, Viraam, was released in the theatres in 2017. His f...2021-08-0144 min
The WISER PodcastInternational Contemporary Writing on WaterOur latest episode focuses on oral poetry from the Kenyan coast and its relation to indigenous marine conservation knowledges; black travel writing from the Indian Ocean world in the early twentieth century; learning to surf and read waves in Cape Town; and the recent rise in postcolonial fiction about mermaids.
Each of these topics, and many more, form part of a special issue of the magazine Wasafiri on "Water", edited by Charne Lavery and Stephnaie Jones and available here: https://www.wasafiri.org/product/wasafiri-issue-106/. The issue covers multiple forms of writing on water from around the world...2021-06-2525 min
The Commissioned Writers PodcastMALACHI MCINTOSH- _Imperial Homes-Calke AbbeyCommissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians.The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard.Malachi McIntosh is editor and publishing director of Wasafiri. He previously co-led the Runnymede Trust's award-winning Our Migration Story project and spent four years as a lecturer in post...2021-06-1707 min
Super Connected ConversationsWith Vicky UnwinLearn more about Super Connected
Vicky Unwin has had a long career in both book and newspaper publishing, centred round her African roots, and is currently the chair of Wasafiri Magazine and a Caine Prize Council member. She has always been fascinated by family secrets and began researching the story behind The Boy from Boskovice shortly before her father’s death in 2012. She is a Trustee ofTransform Drug Policy Foundation campaigning for the decriminalisation of drugs after losing her daughter to a ketamine overdose in 2011. Connect with Vicky here.
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Ochenta StoriesAlif CairoA woman travels through sound and memory to Cairo, Egypt.CREDITS: Thank you for listening to Ochenta Stories, this story was written by Rushda Rafeek. Rushda is currently based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and has been shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize UK in 2017, nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice and has won the Nazim Hikmet Prizerr in 2018. The Arabic version of the story was voiced by Zeina Abouelmakarem, while the sound design of the piece was done by Chiara Santella.If you like what you heard...2021-05-1316 min
News in KiSwahiliSERIKALI YA TANZANIA YATOA MAAGIZA MPYA KWA WASAFISerikali ya Tanzania imetoa maagizo mapya kwa wasafiri wote hususan raia wa kigeni wanao taka kuingia nchini humo kuaa karantini kwa muda wa siku 14. Taarifa iliyotolewa na katibu mkuu wa wazara ya Afya inaeleza kuwa pia raia wa Tanzania walio safari watalamika pia kukaa karantini wanapo rejea nyumbani.Kwa maelezo ya kina huyu hapa Nixon Katembo akizungza na mwandishi wa habari Farhia Middle kutoka Dar Es Salaam2021-05-0407 min
The Connected Sociologies PodcastIndian Indenture in the British Empire - Dr Maria del Pilar KaladeenBetween 1834 and 1920, two million men women and children were taken from India, by the British, to labour on sugar colonies across the Empire under temporary contracts called indentures. The majority of these workers never returned to India and the system of indenture, under which they were bound, has all but been erased from British colonial history. In this lecture, I reflect on how and why this silencing took place. I additionally refer to acts and forms of resistance utilised by indentured labourers and share ideas about the important contemporary contributions of the global Jahaji Bhai – the international indentured labour di...2021-04-1912 min