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We are now seeking submissions for issue 16. For further details, including where to email your submissions, please view our submission guidelines.

We are also looking for novels and poetry chapbooks to review. Please email us in the first instance (see submission guidelines).

 

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In this 48-page issue, we have an interview with Kevin Brownlow. For contents, click here >>

 

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Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Call For Entries
Deadline: 31 July 2009

How to enter
The competition is open to anyone worldwide who has not published a complete book. We are looking for creative submissions in one of three categories: Poetry, Fiction or Life Writing. Simply incorporate the theme of ‘25’ somewhere in your piece, fill in the entry form and send it to us with your entry fee of UK Sterling £5.00 or pay online. Entrants who are visually impaired or who are prevented from typing through disability can enter stories on audio CD. The application form can be downloaded from Wasafiri
Prizes
£300 will be awarded to the winner of each category and their work will be published in Wasafiri.
Judges
Susheila Nasta (Chair) Editor of Wasafiri and Professor of Modern Literature at the Open University
Margaret Busby Writer, editor, critic and broadcaster, former publisher and founder of Allison and Busby
Mimi Khalvati Award-winning poet, Wasafiri Board member and founder of the Poetry School
Blake Morrison Writer, poet and Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London

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Gold Dust 4-Year Celebrations ~ Saturday, 6 September 2008
The Big Green Bookshop, London

A selection of readings from the event are available to view on the Gold Dust YouTube channel.

We also raised just over £40 for Janis Ian's charity, The Pearl Foundation, which funds scholarships for returning students. For more information, please see the following links:

Pearl Foundation - Home

Pearl Foundation - About Pearl

Our well-attended event went off very well, with readings by:

Laurie Owen
Joe Brady
Anne Meryt
Daffni Percival
David Gardiner
Steve Woollard

and a Q+A session from our headliner Aliya Whiteley.

We also enjoyed a play extract from:
Half Sisters by Laura Swain

And music from:
Tim West
Rick Hayter

Aliya Aliya Whiteley, author of Three Things About Me and Light Reading

 

Rick

 

Singer/songwriter and guitarist Rick Hayter

 

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