So Many Unavoidable Journeys - Tales of Displacement
A prose anthology about refugee journeys, emotional as well as physical, from where a person once lived to settling into a new home. Fatima Hagi’s short story Dreaming Beneath the Asmara Sun is one of the stories selected for this anthology.
Last year, the UN estimated that 122.6 million people around the world had been forced to flee their homes. Writing about travellers from Bhutan, Iraq, Eritrea, Iran, Bangladesh, Syria, Palestine and Russia, authors with personal knowledge help us understand how it feels to be compelled to migrate.
The anthology will launch on the evening of Friday 20th June as part of Refugee Week 2025 at Kensington Library, London.
You can order an advance copy from here:
Resistance: Voices of Exiled Writers
Contributing Editor
A poetry & prose anthology celebrating 20 years of writing by members of the Exiled Writers Ink organisation, Palewell Press, December 2020
A collection of poetry and prose in celebration of 20 years of the organisation Exiled Writers Ink, Resistance: Voices of Exiled Writers, is an anthology dedicated to those resisting oppression in all its many forms and to those who died fighting for their just cause. This special book comprises one chapter for every year from 2000 to 2020. Each chapter represents an aspect of the organisation’s literary activism work and support for those resisting human rights abuse. From Kosova, Ethiopia and Afghanistan through Zimbabwe, the Uyghurs, Iran, Kurdistan and the Western Sahara, plus many other areas, and culminating with a chapter on #BlackLivesMatter, here are the voices of writers in exile, championing their causes and resisting the attempt of powerful groups to suppress the truth.
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Common Ground:
Prose & Poetry
Editor
This collection of writing emerged from a one-day creative writing workshop at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI), inspired by the Common Ground exhibition. Fatima Hagi facilitated the workshop and edited the book. You can read the online copy here or visit the NCAI library for a hard copy.
