Still a bit dazed that my story won the Wasafiri New Writing Prize!! It’s in such good company with all the other shortlistees
Thank you to the team at @WasafiriMag and the fiction judge @isabelwaidner for this honour!
The story comes out in print Spring 2025
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize!
🌟 Fiction: Thảo Tô for ‘Love in the Time of Migration’
🌟 Life Writing: Joey Garcia (@AskJoeyGarcia) for ‘A Public Space’
🌟 Poetry: Nasim Luczaj (@nasimluczaj) for ‘the village’
Today in the ARB: @thao__to reviews “The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora” ed by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P Duong and Viet Thanh Nguyen @ucpress https://t.co/yJtFXrodI2
🔔 Students, academics, researchers, and subscribers: Wasafiri 121 is now available to read online!
Edited by @Durre_Shahwar, this issue focuses on moving beyond the periphery — spatially, literally, and visually.
https://t.co/7MxeUtAHoD
READERS everywhere: please help me set up a @RoomtoRead library for disadvantaged kids in Bạc Liêu, Việt Nam - the town where I grew up. Thanks for retweeting and joining hands with me in changing lives via books . https://t.co/068NJ8vEgu
Can you believe it’s been almost three weeks since the winners of the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize were announced?! We can’t stop reminiscing about the prize ceremony…
Here's just a sneak peek of the evening @southbankcentre:
Today in the ARB: @thao__to reviews 2024 Singapore Literature Prize for English Fiction winner “Nine Yard Sarees” by Prasanthi Ram @ethosbooks https://t.co/VuJpeGWiEN
So many people have asked me about my feelings on Han Kang’s Nobel win that I decided to write an essay, yay! Thank you @WasafiriMag for giving me the space to do it 💜✨ https://t.co/u5fABtBYQz
Major Books is doing a launch event (london 8 nov) where you can buy a copy and meet the team who worked on this incredible novel, do come by if you’re around !!
https://t.co/7p3P38eTwd
"Nguyễn Ngọc Tư plays with perceptions of reality, blending the supernatural with the real through her use of vernacular vocabulary—as opposed to extravagant literary language—building unique voices for her characters along the way" https://t.co/fl6UYY0IHN
New book review out for a genre-defying novel published by Major Books! It’s so refreshing and encouraging to see a publisher that’s dedicated to making space for Vietnamese stories beyond the narratives of war.
Still a bit dazed that my story won the Wasafiri New Writing Prize!! It’s in such good company with all the other shortlistees
Thank you to the team at @WasafiriMag and the fiction judge @isabelwaidner for this honour!
The story comes out in print Spring 2025
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize!
🌟 Fiction: Thảo Tô for ‘Love in the Time of Migration’
🌟 Life Writing: Joey Garcia (@AskJoeyGarcia) for ‘A Public Space’
🌟 Poetry: Nasim Luczaj (@nasimluczaj) for ‘the village’
A beautiful and unusual book from the Mekong Delta, published by a new UK press run by a Vietnamese team, centring native-speaker translators - culturally incompetent / insensitive translations having been a particular issue w/ Vietnamese lit.
✨We’re thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize!✨
Chosen by our esteemed judging panel, these works all shone through as exciting new voices in the categories of life writing, poetry, and fiction.
Our shortlists for 2024 are: