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"Helmed by a team of refugees and immigrants, the other side of hope aims to challenge common perceptions of refugees in the UK, and to chronicle the immigrant experience."
-- The Bookseller

"In the other side of hope, writers are released from the narrow parameters expected by much of the media."
-- The Times Literary Supplement

"At long last a serious publication dedicated to the voices of people who have moved. the other side of hope reaches across divides, and platforms the voices that urgently need to be heard, bringing us together as neighbours - as humans."
-- City of Sanctuary UK

"To refer to the other side of hope simply as 'a literary magazine' feels like an injustice. It is a beautiful, complex and painful collection of short stories, non-fiction and poems written and edited by refugees and immigrants ... It constitutes a tool for building empathy, for generating understanding, and an avenue through which to become immersed in the lives of refugees and immigrants for a brief, yet emotive period of time ... You have no choice but to remove your blinkers and disassemble your barriers, blinking in the glaring light of inhumanity, yet reassured that there is enough humanity within us and between us to sustain each other, if we were willing to reach across arbitrary divides ... This literature invites us to deconstruct the categories of ‘alien’, ‘immigrant’, ‘refugee’ and ‘other’, in order to simply recognise the humanity, the beauty, and the struggle in all of us, regardless of country of origin or means of arrival."
-- The Norwich Radical

"From the vital voices of migrants across the globe, the other side of hope is simply brilliant — a unique collection of fiction and poetry that is both heart and eye opening and reflects the deepest parts of the human condition that bind us all. A magazine we have always needed in a time when we need it most.”
-- Sepideh Moafi, multi-hyphenate artist & humanitarian

"This is a brilliant and vital magazine, that allows voices to speak which would otherwise remain unheard – a utopian Babel."
-- Jonathan Taylor, author, editor, critic & Associate Professor of Creative Writing

"A brilliant and essential magazine that reminds us of our shared humanity: By reading the other side of hope we can demonstrate our solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers the world over."
-- Lucy Popescu, Chair, The Authors' Club & Best First Novel Award (BFNA)

"Visceral and evocative ... everyone should read it."
-- The Lit Platform

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