Craft Podcast
1) Saidiya 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 c...Show More
2) Meena Kandasamy – Women Dreaming, by Salma
Literary 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&nb...Show More
3) Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan – Postcolonial Banter
Suhaiymah 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 ...Show More
4) Bernardine Evaristo – Lara
How 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 d...Show More
5) Rob Nixon – Slow Violence
Rob 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 (201...Show More
6) Johny Pitts – Afropean
Johny Pitts is a multiple-award-winning writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist, originally from Sheffield, England. His first book, Afropean (2020), combines travel writing, photography, histo...Show More
7) Daniel 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 nov...Show More
8) Chen Chen – Nature Poem
Chen 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...Show More
9) Nina Mingya Powles – Tiny Moons
Nina 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 ...Show More
10) Craft - Official Trailer
Calling 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 t...Show More