Diasporic and Migrant Writing - mapping new landscapes in contemporary international literature

Sharmilla Beezmohun has worked in publishing since 1994. She has worked for Virago, Heinemann's African and Caribbean Writers Series, Thomas Telford Publishers, the George Padmore Institute and  International PEN amongst others. She has been Deputy Editor of Wasafiri, the magazine of International Contemporary Writing since 2005 and also works freelance producing live literature events. With Sarah White and Roxy Harris she co-edited A Meeting of the Continents: The International Book Fair of Black Radical and Third World Books and has published various articles including in Sable magazine and the AfroEuropas online journal. Her first novel, Echoes of a Green Land, was published in 2010 in translation in Spain as Ecos de la tierra verde.

"Wasafiri is a literary magazine at the forefront of mapping new landscapes in contemporary international literature today. In over 25 years of publishing, it has continued to provide consistent coverage to Britain's diverse cultural heritage and publish a range of  diasporic and migrant writing worldwide. "Wasafiri", the Kiswahili word for travellers, captures our vision to focus on writing as a form  of "cultural travelling". Since Wasafiri was first published in 1984, it has consistently aimed to shift the contours of established literary canons and extend the borders of international contemporary  writing, creating imaginative spaces and publishing some of the most promising new literary voices."  (http://www.wasafiri.org/index.asp)

Organized by the Fluid World Research Development Programme, University of Tampere.

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