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June 2025

Refugee Week online event with City of Sanctuary UK
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Poetry Readings with the Other Side of Hope

16 June 2025
Time: 19:00-20:00
 Venue: online

To kick off Refugee Week 2025, we are delighted to host an evening of poetry readings from poets published by The Other Side of Hope.

Click here to register your free place

The Other Side of Hope is the UK’s only literary magazine edited by migrants and refugees platforming migrants’ and refugees’ writing – it is also the UK’s first Magazine of Sanctuary.

Hosted by the Other Side of Hope editorial team, we will be joined by poets and authors from around the world for an evening of literary delights.

Feel free to eat your dinner or enjoy a glass of wine during this free online event.

May 2025

Event in Coventry University
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Migrant Poetry and Publishing: Readings and Discussion

With Amir Darwish, British Syrian poet & writer of Kurdish origin, and Priscilla Okoye, Nigeria-born poet and writer. Poetry readings, followed by a discussion and a Q&A, led by Alexandros Plasatis. This event, organised by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures and the Post-Publishing Research Strand by is free and open to the public.

Free but ticketed
Book your ticket HERE

Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Venue: Room JA104, Jaguar Building
113A Gosford St
Coventry University
CV1 5DL

Registration from: 1400 to 1430
Event: 1430 to 1600

May 2025

Event in Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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In collaboration with the Migration theme at the Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University, we celebrate the migrant voices from the other side of hope. Poetry and story readings from our current and past contributors, both in English and in other languages. The event will be presented by Lina Fadel, editor at the other side of hope and Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University.

Free but ticketed
Book your ticket HERE

Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
4-6pm
Room 26, Esmée Fairbairn Building
Riccarton Campus
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh
EH14 RAS

May 2025

Two poets from the other side of hope at Ware Poets
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Ware Poets – Luca Spiller and Amir Darwish

Fri 9 May
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Doors 7:45pm

Southern Maltings
Kibes Ln, Ware SG12 7BS

Get tickets HERE

Tonight we welcome two poets from the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature, a UK-based literary magazine edited by migrant writers and poets of the world.

The first half of this event will be open mic, so please feel free to bring and read a poem in a friendly and welcoming space.

Tickets should be bought in advance but there will also be availability on the door.

Southern Maltings is the trading name of Ware Arts Centre Limited and is a registered charity

All events are run by volunteers and proceeds go towards developing the Southern Maltings into an amazing creative arts centre which will enable us to put on a wider and more frequent range of events and activities for the whole community.

April 2025

Live from London: the other side of hope in Morocco Bound bookshop
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Saturday 26 April
7 to 9pm

Free but ticketed
Book your ticket HERE

We'll bring the poets and the editors, come along. We invite you to celebrate the launch of our latest multilingual issue, "other tongue, mother tongue", produced by the home of migrant poets and writers: the other side of hope.  Grab a drink or two from the bar at Morocco Bound Bookshop and join in on the conversation we started four years ago, about humanity, movement, everything literature and all sides of hope.

Morocco Bound Bookshop
1a Morocco Street London SE1 3HB

April 2025

Online Launch: "other tongue, mother tongue"
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Thursday 24 April
6 to 8pm

Free event, but ticketed
Book your place HERE

We're delighted to present an evening of multilingual poetry by migrant poets from across the world. Some of poets published in our latest issue "other tongue, mother tongue" at "the other side of hope", will be reading their works. The event includes a Q&A session. Join the conversation about humanity, movement and literature.

April 2025

Voices from The Other Side of Hope Writing as Activism
Arts Podcasts at Leicester
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Listen to the podcast with our writers at Literary Leicester Festival at the University of Leicester HERE

April 2025

Our editor, Amir Darwish, appears in Migrant Voice newspaper

April 2025

Our editor, Amir Darwish, appears in Pulse Magazine
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You can read Amir's article HERE

March 2025

Voices from The Other Side of Hope: Writing as Activism
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Voices from The Other Side of Hope: Writing as Activism

Thu 20 Mar 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Attenborough Arts Centre, LE1 7HA

Get free ticket HERE

The University of Leicester’s Sanctuary Seekers’ Unit and The Other Side of Hope Literary Magazine, “home of the migrant writers and poets of the world,” bring together three leading writers who read from their recent work and discuss how writing is a form of activism, resilience, and hope.

March 2025

the
other tongue, mother tongue
issue

is now out
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the
other tongue, mother tongue
issue

PRINT ISSUE
£8 plus p&p || 104 pages || softback || perfect bound

featuring refugee & immigrant poets from across the world

20 poems in
Albanian, Arabic, Bangla, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Konkani, Maltese,
Nigerian Pidgin English, Pahari, Rohingya, Shona, Spanish, Tigrinya, Ukrainian and
Yoruba

presented along English translations

some of our contributors:

February 2025

Our editor, Asiye Betül, presents at Humanities Cartoons
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University Refugee Week
King's Sanctuary Programme X Humanities Cartoons


Tue 25 Feb 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Exchange, Bush House North East Wing, Aldwych, WC2B 4BG

February 2025

Blog entry about our event in Leeds University
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Read the blog entry HERE

January 2025

Our event at The National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
2 - 3:30pm
National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall
1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AW

FREE but ticketed
Reserve a spot HERE

We're delighted to present an afternoon of poetry and prose by Scotland-based migrant writers and the editors of 'the other side of hope'. Join the conversation about humanity, movement and literature.

December 2024

The recording from our launch in The National Poetry Library in London
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Listen to the recording HERE

A recording from the National Poetry Library’s Special Edition series, highlighting the voices published in The Other Side of Hope, a literary magazine that provides a platform for marginalised stories and perspectives from migrants and refugees. The evening also features the voices of Young Roots, a London-based charity working with refugee and asylum-seeking young people. Hosted by Asiye Betül. Recorded in the National Poetry Library on Wednesday 6 November 2024.


December 2024

Radio with with our poetry editor, Amir Darwish, with Northampton Radio
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Amir Darwish talks to Jagruti Patel from "Undiscovered Northampton".

Amir's interview starts at 02:06:41

Listen HERE

December 2024

Our launch in Leeds University
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Tuesday 10 December 2024, 15:00 – 17:00
Location: Level 12 – Student Study Area, Social Sciences Building, University of Leeds
Free - registration required

Join us for the launch of the fourth print issue of 'the other side of hope', a UK-based literary magazine edited by and featuring refugee and immigrant writers from across the world.
This is an event with editors and writers from "the other side of hope" and with readings and discussion on producing a literary magazine.

Speakers include: Abdul Raouf Qureshi, Birgit Friedrich, Carolina Christevelyn Pay, Kerning, Khawla Badwan, Maria Rovisco, Mike Baynham, and Temitayo Olonfinlua. See speaker biographies below.

This event is open to all and hosted by the School of Sociology and Social Policy. Hot drinks and cake will be served.

December 2024

New book by Bhaswati Ghosh, one of our past contributors
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Published by Copper Coin
Buy the book HERE

“This is a collection of love and longing—for homes left behind, for homes alive in the mind, for places that the reader dwells in through each poem. Vivid, elegant, reverent and elegiac, Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen skillfully takes us on a journey through multiple moods and geographies. By the end of it, we are left with a joyous raga resounding in our ears and the taste of hilsa fish with mustard oil on our tongues that lingers.”
—Shikha Malaviya, author of Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems

“Reading Bhaswati Ghosh’s poems I found myself enacting the premise of her title Nostalgic For a Place Never Seen, longing for the sights, sounds and smells Ghosh conjures. Right from her opening lines with their clever play on the word ‘plot’, there is a conflation of poetic space and physical place whose geometries converge in the last line of the poem: ‘The plot is home’. From a landscape of lost ancestral homelands evocatively populated by her “grandma [who] smuggled a river / in her eyelids’, Ghosh spans the globe. This book alchemizes memory, turning it into that mysterious feeling the Portuguese call ‘saudade’, an emotion you will want to imbibe again and again.”
—Sophia Naz, author of Bark Archipelago

December 2024

New book by Ana Doina,one of our past contributors
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Published by Legacy Book Press
Buy the book HERE

Growing up in communist Romania, under the shadow of the Holocaust, WW2, The Bomb, and the Iron Curtain, Ana Doina's life was shaped by the Cold War and the search for political and individual freedom, all but forbidden in a totalitarian regime. In her twenties, forced by political, social, and ethnic persecutions, she left Romania, immigrating to the United States. As the inheritor of that tormented past, she is embracing the poetry as witness tradition of writing to explore the lament and the wisdom left us by the tumult of the twentieth century, thus bearing witness to it not only through dates and events but also through emotional, communal, and deeply personal images. Being an emigrant/immigrant poet, Ana writes about her personal experiences of losing and finding the elusive at-home state of awareness humans need in order to live and thrive. Although autobiographical, Legend of Bread reaches out to everyone interested in how place, language, and history are formative elements in the making of a multifaceted identity. The book hopes to foster a dialog with those trying to understand the experience of exiles, political refugees, emigrants; and with the children of immigrants living with the consequences of the history that gave birth to this story.

December 2024

Our launch in Northampton University
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Thursday, 5th December 2024
3:00 - 6:00
UON Waterside Campus, Town Hall

OPEN to all

For more information please email: emel.thomas@northampton.ac.uk

Join us for the launch of our 4th issue – an open event celebrating resilience, identity, and the art of storytelling.

November 2024

Our online launch: issue 4.1
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Thursday 28 November 2024

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
ONLINE


Free but ticketed
Get your tickets HERE



Join us for a memorable online event with the editors and writers of the other side of hope. This free event, hosted by our editorial team, will bring together poets, authors, and literary enthusiasts from around the world who have been featured in this issue for an inspiring celebration of words and storytelling.

November 2024

Dante & Shakespeare on the Move
the other side of hope at the London Film Migration Festival
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Join us to celebrate on the closing night of the 9th edition of London Migration Film Festival!

Wednesday, November 27 · 7 - 9:30pm
King's College London
The Strand Campus, Macadam Building, Terrace Cafe
London WC2R 2LS


Buy your tickets HERE

In a fast moving world, we look back at the canon in literature - Shakespeare, Dante - and explore their relevance for current discussions on migration, movement and asylum.

A dynamic event bringing together artists, writers, academics and people with lived experience of (forced) migration.

Join us to celebrate the end of London Migration Film Festival 2024, and get to know each other’s work and perspectives on the century’s old, but never more present, theme of migration. Ticket includes wine reception and nibbles.



Featuring Majid Adin, Dr Jennifer Allsopp, and The Other Side of Hope literary magazine

November 2024

Lekshmi Chandran Sheeja
joins the team and will support us with social media
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November 2024

Being Human Festival
An evening of readings, performances and short talks celebrating the creativity and insights of migrant authors over the centuries.
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Zero Carbon
Guildford
GU1 3HW


Friday 8 November 2024
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Free, but ticketed
Book HERE

This University of Surrey event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, featuring, amongst others, our editor, Rubina Cuka-Smalley, and our contributors, Arbër Qerka-Gashi and Anitha Sundararajan.

November 2024

Southbank Centre
Special Edition: The Other Side of Hope
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National Poetry Library
Southbank Centre
London


Wednesday 6 November 2024, 8pm

Tickets from £7
Book HERE

Readings from some of our latest contributors
Anitha Sundararajan
Arbër Qerka-Gashi
Fatemeh Takht-Keshian
Irina Cristache-Taylor
Maria Cohut
Shereen Pandit

and young writers from Young Roots will also read from their contributions to the latest issue of The Other Side of Hope magazine.

October 2024

some of our contributors from the issue 4.1

October 2024

our 4.1 print issue is now out
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PRINT ISSUE
out October 2024
£9 plus p&p || 172 pages || softback 
|| perfect bound


featuring refugee & immigrant writers from around the world

fiction || poetry || non-fiction || artworks

9 short stories, 20 poems, 7 non-fiction pieces, and poems, prose & artworks
from the Debordering Futures conference at the University of Cambridge

September 2024

our nominations for Best of the Net
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August 2024

Our editor, Amir Darwish, talks to Sinéad Mangan-Mc Hale from Together in the UK
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read Amir's interview HERE

July 2024

new book by Timea Sipos, one of our previous contributors
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Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features

"The poems in The Shapes Our Tongues Make track how I gradually became disillusioned with my life in America while falling madly, desperately, hopelessly in love with my birth city of Budapest.
I was born to two Hungarian parents in the 9th district of Pest and did not speak a word of English when we immigrated to the U.S. while I was in the first grade—first to Los Angeles, then to Las Vegas four years later. I spent most of my summers in the Hungarian countryside growing up, so I kept the language, but quickly lost my connection to my true hometown."

Timea Sipos is a Hungarian American author and translator with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A former Steinbeck Fellow and winner of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Contest, her work has received support from MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, Tin House, the Black Mountain Institute, and PEN America, among others. She has published with Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, The Florida Review, Waxwing, and more. Her translation of Kinga Tóth’s poetry collection Írmag/Offspring appeared in 2020 with YAMA Art and her translation of Márton Simon’s poetry collection Songs for 3:45 AM appeared in 2021 with The Offending Adam Press. Learn more about her work at www.timeasipos.com 

June 2024
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the submissions window for
our 'other tongue, mother tongue' issue
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will be open from

15th June
to
15th August 2024

submission guidelines for the 'other tongue, mother tongue' issue

​we consider only poetry in any language, apart from English, by refugees and immigrants

June 2024

Refugee Week poetry reading

Organised by City of Sanctuary UK and hosted by the other side of hope editorial team, we are joined by poets and authors from around the world for an evening of literary delight – speaker’s include:

Anne Collins
Ana M. Fores Tamayo
Ambrose Musiniyia
Monica Clarke 

May 2024

Interview with our editor, Lina Fadel.
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Our editor, Lina Fadel, interviewed by ​Dita N Love, Linh S. Nguyễn & Jolin Tang from The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge University.

Read Lina's interview HERE

March 2024

online launch
'other tongue, mother tongue' issue
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We invite you to celebrate the launch of our first ever ‘other tongue, mother tongue’ issue, our first multilingual issue, which came out in January.

Meet the poets and editors of the other side of hope

Saturday 23 March 2024
19:00 - 20:30
online

This event is free
Make sure you register HERE

March 2024

Refugee Week 2024 Arts Away Day

Our editors Malka Al-Haddad and Mike Baynham
represented the other side of hope in this year's Refugee Week Arts Away Day.

March 2024

New books by our previous contributors,
Mugabi Byenkya, Sophie Buchaillard, Loraine Masiya Mponela and Emil Draitser.

Click on the images below to visit the publisher.


February 2024

Launch in Morocco Bound bookshop, London
Presented by Rubina Bala, Amir Darwish, and Malka Al-Haddad.

Contibutors readings by Ayman Eckford, Alice Motta, Angela Zaher, Erjola Shuaipi, Masimba Musodza, Carolina Christ Evelyn P, Sahra Mohamed, and Shereen Pandit.
We invite you to celebrate the launch of Volume 3, Issue 2, with readings from contributors and team members, grab a drink or two from the bar at Morocco Bound Bookshop and join in on the conversation we started three years ago, about humanity, movement, everything literature and all sides of hope.

Wednesday 21 February 2024
19:00 - 22:00
Morocco Bound Bookshop
1a Morocco Street London SE1 3HB

This event is free, but ticketed
Make sure you get your ticket HERE

submissions open
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1st of February to 30th April 2024

We welcome writers & poets from around the world to submit their work

this window is open to works in English only

Fiction, Poetry & Artwork
open exclusively to refugees & immigrants;
submissions are unthemed.

Non-Fiction
open to everyone;
theme: migration.

We pay all our contributors

Please full submissions guidelines HERE

January 2024

Podcast

Lina Fadel, our poetry editor, discusses the other side of hope with Stack's Steve Watson

Listen HERE
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January 2024

Online launch of our 3rd online issue
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Presented by Maria Rovisco, Amir Darwish, and Asiye Betül; with an introductory talk by Julia Rampen.

Contributors readings by Alexandra Magearu, Alice Motta, Alison Hramiak, Angela Zaher, Ayman Eckford, Emil Draitser, Hanna Komar, Hongwei Bao, Maria Rybakova, Mugabi Byenkya, Polina Cosgrave, Rovshan Karimov, Sophia Kaur, and Yakin Kinger.

We bring together contributors from our third online issue, from different parts of the world.

Join us for readings & a Q&A session with the magazine’s editors and contributors.

Tuesday, 30 January 2024
6pm to 7.30pm

online

Free event - open to everyone
Book a ticket HERE

January 2024

Some of the contributors from our other tongue, mother tongue issue

January 2024

our other tongue, mother tongue issue is now live
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other tongue, mother tongue

20 poems in
Yoruba, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Belarusian, Russian, Swedish, Kiikamba, Jamaican Patois, Iqbo, Bangla, French, Ukrainian, and Persian

presented along English translations

December 2023

INTERVIEW

Interrogating Margins and Marginalisation

Our fiction editor, Mahima Kaur, talks to Kalpana Rao from Muse India
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December 2023

PODCAST
Un/Documented
by IMIX

International Migrants Day: I am a migrant

In the first part of this episode, Ali and Eli interview Mimi, a survivor of modern-day slavery; in the second part, Julia talks with our editor, Alexandros Plasatis and discuss the other side of hope.


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December 2023

Priscilla Okoye's poem, I See You,
published in our latest print issue
is displayed on Exeter's
Poems For Hope And The City
a city-wide display for the New Year
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December 2023

Don't marginalise migrants

comment on The Bookseller
by our editor, Alexandros Plasatis
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December 2023

We All Have the Migrant Inside Us

article on The International Organization for Migration UK
by our editor, Alexandros Plasatis
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December 2023

The Immigrant Narratives Finding The Other Side of Hope

article and video on South West Londoner
about the other side of hope
by Jethro Robathan
featuring our editor, Rubina Bala
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December 2023

Some of the contributors from our third online issue
Alexandra Magearu
Mofiyinfoluwa O.
Alice Motta
Alison Hramiak
Emil Draitser
Ana Doina
Andrea Damic
Ayman Eckford
Masimba Musodza
Elizabeth Torres
George Sfougaras
Maria Rybakova
Hongwei Bao
Sahra Mohamed
Nour Abuelreich
Moossa Casseem
Natalia Knowlton Vásquez
Mugabi Byenkya
Shahé Mankerian
Angela Zaher
Yakin Kinger
Shereen Pandit
Ari Honarvar
Faleeha Hassan
Hanna Komar
Matovu Abdallah Twaha
Olga Kolesnikova
Polina Cosgrave

December 2023

our third online issue is now live
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our third online issue includes
7 short stories, 1 novel excerpt, 20 poems, 7 non-fiction pieces, 3 book reviews,
and a short 
​a collection of poetry by young refugee women at Young Roots and Refugee Council

Read the issue HERE


November 2023
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November 2023

Online launch of our 3rd print issue
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We bring together contributors from our third print issue, from different parts of the world.

Join us for readings & a Q&A session with the magazine’s editors and contributors.

Thursday, 30 November 2023
6pm to 7.30pm


online

Free event - open to everyone
Book a ticket HERE

November 2023

Event at the University of Northampton
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Wednesday, 29 November 2023
​11am to 1pm
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University of Northampton
Waterside Campus, University Drive
Northampton
NN1 5PH

Free event​ - open to everyone
No need to book. Ask at the library reception for a pass


November 2023

Event at London Migration Festival
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This event, where we celebrate the magazine’s third birthday, will include readings by migrant writers and poets, live music, and a Q&A session with the magazine’s editors and contributors.

Saturday, 25 November 2023
6.30 to 8.30pm


Upstairs at the Ritzy
Brixton Oval
London
SW2 1JG

Ticketed event - open to everyone
Book a ticket HERE

Full festival programme HERE

November 2023

​New Perspectives on Travel Writing, Migration and Tourism
online conference
In Conversation: Founding the other side of hope magazine (10:45 to 11:15am)
Wednesday 22 November 2023, 10am to 7pm
​With Cardiff University, Unesco Chair & University of Glasgow
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Alexandros Plasatis and Maria Rovisco will talk about what prompted the creation of 'the other side of hope' and how this literary magazine has developed since its creation in 2021. They will reflect on the aims of the magazine and how the various editors work together to create a community of refugee and immigrant writers from around the world.

​online

Free event - open to everyone
​Book a ticket HERE

Full programme HERE​

November 2023

Laura Racioppi joins the team and takes over our social media
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Laura, Italian native with a background in International Relations, advocates for inclusivity and equality. As the Director of S.P.R.A.R., she managed a project supporting refugees, emphasising programs for integration into Italian life. As a Cultural Mediator, she enhanced the educational experience for Roma children, conducted workshops, and addressed discrimination through annual reports. As a Volunteer Coordinator at CLEAR (City Life Education and Action for Refugees) in Southampton, she recruits and manages volunteers, contributes to policy development, and leads social media efforts. Laura is dedicated to  amplifying the voices of asylum seekers and refugees worldwide.

November 2023

​Event at Being Human Festival in Liverpool
Creative Writing Workshop and Discussion
Led by School of Advanced Study, University of London
​In partnership with Arts and Humanities Research Council & The British Academy
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This event will include a conversation and writing workshop with the magazine’s editor, Alexandros Plasatis, whose own short stories have been shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and Pushcart Prize.

What does it mean to be a migrant and how might the hospitality offered to you in your host country make all the difference to your wellbeing and sense of belonging? You’ll have a chance to explore these questions and more at this workshop, where you’ll be supported in developing your own short stories. You’ll also be given advice about next steps, including publication.

12 November 2023
1pm to 4pm


FACT
88 Wood Street
Liverpool
L1 4DQ

Free event - open to everyone
​Book your ticket HERE

Full Festival programme HERE

November 2023

Launch at the University of Leeds
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Tuesday, 7 November 2023
​4pm to 5.30pm
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University of Leeds
Room: Esther Simpson SR (2.08)
Woodhouse
LS2 9JT

Free event​ - open to everyone
Book you place HERE


October 2023
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​Launch event at Intercultured Festival, Bradford
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
In partnership with 
Bradford Immigration Asylum Seeker & Support Network (BIASAN), Counterpoints Arts, Cecil Green Arts, Waterstones, Bradford University, Theatre in the Mill, Bradford Libraries​
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Tuesday, 24 October 2023
6.30pm to 9pm​

Bradford Central Library
Centenary Square
Bradford
​BD1 9SG

Free event - open to everyone
​Book you place HERE

Full programme HERE

October 2023

Some of the contributors from our third print issue

Alice Attie
Aliya Abidi
Azadeh Hashemian
Claire Jabbour
Davina Fogel
Garry Engkent
Hussain Shah Rezaie
Karan Kapoor
Kushinga Hare
Malika Abdulhamidova
Melissa Andrés
Muti'ah Badruddeen
Nina Kossman
Qila Gill
Sahar Othmani
Sarah Uheida
Sarwa Azeez
Javeria Hasnain

October 2023

our third print issue is now out
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130 pages | softback | perfect bound

featuring refugee & immigrant writers from around the world

fiction || poetry || non-fiction || author interview

you can buy a copy HERE

September 2023
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August 2023

​New book by one of our previous contributors, Nuha Fariha
Nuha Fariha was published in our second print issue
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GOD MORNINGS, TIGER NIGHTS is an ode to the enduring spirit of the Bengal tiger and a love letter to an immigrant's journey. This collection crosses national and international borders, gender norms and generational lines and touches on issues of Islamophobia, isolation, and xenophobia. Through it all, the tiger emerges as a symbol of resilience and fierce pride, a vessel our poems return to again and again.
Published by Game Over Books
Purchase a copy from the publisher HERE

July 2023

New book by one of our previous contributors, David Davies
David Davies was published in our second online issue
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Sir David and the Green Card maps a journey through the twists of today's U.S. immigration system, with all its surreal demands and medieval burdens. From a dark beginning in cold British traffic to the seared highways of California, these poems recount a ten-year quest for permanence and the motley characters - real and imagined - met along the way. Join a vibrant tour through machinery suspected-yet-unknown, a story of remaining human inside political scaffolding, and a scrutiny of the complex privilege of navigating it all as an English-speaker.
Published by Wipf and Stock
Purchase a copy HERE

June 2023
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Publishing and Producing Anthologies
Online event, organised by Together in the UK
Thursday, 29 June, 5pm
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Organised by Together in the UK
Learn the secrets of putting together an Anthology. Chaired by Adam Feinstein, the event features a panel of experts and contributors who will share their secrets of putting together an anthology, including:
Professor Marius Turda on his academic work, A Cultural History of Race (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Alexandros Plasatis, editor of The Other Side of Hope
Teresa Norman & Sinead Mangan-McHale, editors of Hear Our Stories - an anthology of writings on migration developed with and published by Victorina Press
Christopher Fielden, the mastermind behind 81 Words a flash fiction anthology (Victorina Press)
Book a ticket HERE

June 2023

Stories & Journeys
​Saturday 24th of June, 3 to 6pm
'Living Under One Sun' Community Hub in Tottenham Hale, London

An afternoon celebrating the the work of refugee writers and artists
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Our editor, Amir Darwish, reads his poems and talks about the other side of hope  
​Lighthouse Relief, in conjunction with Safe Place International, are holding their first event in London. The event brings together authors, poets and musicians, featuring readings from two new books. Brendan Woodhouse (co-author of Doro - Refugee, Hero, Champion, Survivor, and former Lighthouse volunteer), together with Jaz O’Hara (co-author of Asylum Speakers) will be present to read from, and sign copies of their books. A number of poets will read from works previously published in the magazine the other side of hope.

June 2023
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Hostile Environment, Artful Living: creative approaches to sanctuary
Rubina Bala and Alexandros Plasatis on reclaiming literary voice and
space
A one-day event in Creative and Critical Refugee Studies
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​Nottingham Trent University
Friday 23 June 2023
10.30 am – 5.30 pm
​Organised by Refugee Week and Nottingham Trent University
Book a ticket HERE

June 2023
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Online event: Celebrating Refugee Week with refugee writers 
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June 2023
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New book by our poetry editor, Malka Al-Haddad
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Malka Al-Haddad grew up during the Iran-Iraq war and lost several close family members during the first Gulf War and American invasion in 2003. She became a poet and a human rights advocate, which attracted hostility towards her in Iraq. While she was studying English in preparation for her PhD in the UK, death threats against her escalated and she couldn't return back to her beloved home and family. Malka's asylum claim was continually refused by the Home Office and after 11 years, she was eventually granted leave to remain, but without access to public funding. She is now an ambassador for City of Sanctuary in the UK. Malka's pain and anger on behalf of all those caught up in the UK asylum system give her poetry a passionate strength and urgency.
Published by Palewell Press
​Purchase a copy HERE

June 2023
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New book by our previous contributor Qin Sun Stubis
​Qin Sun Stubis was published in our first print issue
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Once Our Lives is a multi-generational memoir based on the dramatic true events of two Chinese families over four generations. The book opens in the 1930s with a strange family myth about a boy who is born into a prosperous family but whose life is changed forever when he is entered by the unlucky spirit of a wandering beggar — dooming him, according to one chilling prophecy, to a fate he struggles against his whole life. At the same time, a girl from a remote seaside village is torn from her family and forced into a life of unhappy luxury in cosmopolitan Shanghai, surrounded by round-eyed devils, acts of startling kindness and cruelty, and a newfangled magical device called…radio.When their paths unexpectedly cross, the result is anything but a typical love story. Swept up with millions of others in the gigantic cultural tides of their time, their “Riches-to-Rags” story takes them from their privileged positions at the pinnacle of society downwards to persecuted political victims in a medieval fortress to a shantytown where life and death hang in the balance every day, and finally to a prison of the State.
Published by Guernica Editions
​Purchase a copy HERE

June 2023

​Submissions open for our first ever 'other tongue, mother tongue' issue
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April 2023
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New book by our non-fiction editor, Maria Rovisco
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The role of the visual in politics is gaining momentum in scholarly work concerned with the current social media landscape. It is widely acknowledged that the production, dissemination and consumption of visual products in the Global South is powerfully shaped by geo-politics and a power dynamics in which the Global North dominates the South (the cultural imperialism argument). However, scant attention has been paid to theoretical, methodological, and empirically grounded approaches to visual politics produced by scholars working in the Global South. Little is known about the ways in which scholarship in the Global South might challenge and resist western approaches to the study of the visual. Against this background, this project aims to examine visual politics in the Global South through theoretically driven, and empirically grounded case studies, which focus on the role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns, the relation between state and citizens) and public and everyday politics (e.g., social movements, activism, grassroots politics, civil society initiatives). This volume examines visual politics in the Global South through theoretically driven, and empirically grounded case studies, which focus on the role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns, the relation between state and citizens) and public and everyday politics. It will be of interest to both researchers and students interested in the study of visual politics from various disciplinary lens (media and communication, anthropology, politics, and sociology).
Published by Palgrave Macmillan
More about the publication HERE

March 2023
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LRMN includes us in their World Book Day 2023 recommended reads
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Read ​Lewisham Refugee & Migrant Network's recommendations HERE 

February 2023

New people join the project:
​Mahima Kaur (fiction co-editor), Lina Fadel (​poetry co-editor), Asiye Betül (non-fiction co-editor), ​Mike Baynham (editor of the 'other tongue, mother tongue' issue) and ​Isabel Medem ​(project consultant)
Mahima Kaur
Lina Fadel
Asiye Betül
Mike Baynham
​Isabel Medem
Read more about the team HERE

February 2023

The magazine starts a collaboration with A.M. Heath Literary Agency
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A.M. Heath Literary Agents will select and offer one-to-one sessions to 6 of our contributors. These one-to-ones will use the material in the magazine as a starting point, agents will share their thoughts editorially on what is working well and what may need looking at, and advise on potential next steps for the author.

​About A.M. Heath
Founded in 1919 by Audrey Heath and Alice May Spinks, two women who challenged the conventions of publishing, we are a London literary agency still very much driven by a passion to help writers who want to shift, shape or enrich the wider cultural conversation, and provide irresistible entertainment.
Championing our clients’ writing remains at the heart of what we do.  As well as a century of experience, we bring energy, ambition, and a keen eye for detail to our work.

​Fond more about A.M. Heath Literary Agency HERE

February 2023
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the magazine starts a one-year collaboration with Young Roots
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This year we are partnering with Young Roots to offer creative writing workshops to their young refugee clients. Overseen by Roz Doe, young clients will produce 5 collaborative poems for print and 5 pieces for the online issue.

February 2023
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Submissions for our third volume open
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February 2023
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the other side of hope receives one-year funding from Arts Council England
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December 2022

Language on the Move includes the magazine in their Reading Challenge 2023

Language on the Move is a peer-reviewed sociolinguistics research site devoted to multilingualism, language learning, and intercultural communication in the contexts of globalization and migration. Language on the Move aims to disseminate sociolinguistic research to a broad global audience.
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Read the blog entry HERE

December 2022
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Migration stories: the other side of hope
Yasmine Mattoussi from Migrant Voice interviews our editors, Maria Rovisco & Alexandros Plasatis
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Read the short interview HERE

December 2022
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Some of the contributors from our second online issue
Bänoo Zan
Maryna Krazhova
Daniel W.K. Lee
Halina Goldstein
Christina Hoag
Yessica Klein
B. Anne Adriaens
Diyo Mulopo Bopengo
Sheela Burrell
Gabriele Uboldi
Grant Hayter-Menzies
Sunayna Pal
Joel Mordi
Gabriel Awuah Mainoo
Angela Graham
Lena Rissmann
Eric Abalajon
Iveren Cheku
Saheli Khastagir
Annie Liones Nguyen
Yakin Ajay Kinger
David Davies
Edward Gunawan
Landa wo
Monica Mody
Katrina Macapagal
Rifat Mahbub
Anesu Jahura
Agata Maslowska
Anisha Bhaduri
Aryan Ashory
Jen Ross
Godwin Akinyele
Loraine Masiya Mponela
Morning-meadow Jones
Divyanka Sharma

December 2022
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our second online issue is now live
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our second online issue includes
10 short stories, 1 novel excerpt, 36 poems, 10 non-fiction pieces, 2 book reviews, 1 author feature, and a collection of ​poetry, prose & art ​by the Art & Writing Hearth ​at Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants

​Read our second online issue HERE

December 2022
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We donate 500 copies to refugee centres and Public Libraries of Sanctuary
 You can find out about where our print copies were donated HERE

December 2022

Photos of our second print issue
​as people posted them on social media

November 2022

Online event to celebrate our 2nd print issue
​Thursday 17th November, 6.30 to 8pm
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November 2022
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November 2022
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the other side of hope is awarded the Sanctuary Award by City of Sanctuary UK and becomes the UK's first ever literary magazine of sanctuary
Sanctuary awards for the Arts are awarded to organisations for their commitment to creating a culture of welcome for people seeking sanctuary within the arts.

Find the list of organisations awarded sanctuary awards for the arts HERE

November 2022

Launch at Northampton University
Wednesday 30th November, 3pm to 5pm
Northampton University, in collaboration with CARE
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Lina Fadel, Malka Al-Haddad, Alexandros Plasatis, Amir Darwish

November 2022
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Creative Writing at Leicester features the magazine
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Read the blog entry HERE

November 2022
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​the magazine in now stocked at some independent bookshops
Find out all the bookshops that stock the magazine HERE

November 2022
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Celebrating Islington Centre's 25th Anniversary at Amnesty International in London
Jane Ray, Sita Brahmachari & Ros Asquith from Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants. Rubina Bala from the other side of hope with Isabel Medem.
Sita Brahmachari reads Patchwork of Hope by Art and Writing Hearth at Islington Centre.
Patchwork of Hope is a communal poem from the Art and Writing Hearth at Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants, London, curated by Artists and Writers in Residence Sita Brahmachari, Jane Ray and Ros Asquith. 

Published in our print edition, 2.1, autumn 2022
Visit our YouTube channel for more videos from our contributors HERE

October 2022
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New book by our previous contributor Loraine Masiya Mponela
Loraine Masiya Mponela was published in our first online issue
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​Loraine Masiya Mponela, born and raised in Malawi, currently lives in England, UK. A writer of poetry, comedy and articles, her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, journals, and magazines. She is a Migrants Rights Campaigner and community organiser. Loraine has a lovely son.
Purchase a copy HERE

October 2022

​Launch at Intercultured Festival, Bradford
Wednesday 19th October 2022, 6.30 to 9pm
​Waterstones, Bradford
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Alexandros Plasatis, Amir Darwish, Rubina Bala, Asiye Betül, Maria Rovisco, Mahima Kaur

October 2022
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Some of the contributors from our second print issue 
Barlow Crassmont
Monica Clarke
Farha Mukri
Ali Motamedi
Yin F Lim
Zoe Blaylock
Lina Fadel
Angus W. McGregor
Nashwa Nasreldin
Victoria Buitron
Kasia Kokowska
H. T. Brickner
Asiye Betül
Mahima Kaur
Lester Gómez Medina

October 2022
our second print issue is now out
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featuring refugee & immigrant writers from around the world

artwork
by Dmitry Borshch, a political refugee from the USSR to the US in 1989, and, since February of this year, a refugee again, fleeing the war from Dnipropetrovsk to New York. 

fiction
by Victoria Buitron who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut; H. T. Brickner, originally from China, who lives in Minnesota; Kasia Kokowska, an immigrant from Poland living in Scotland; Farha Mukri, born in Mumbai, residing in Chicago; Barlow Crassmont, a former refugee from Bosnia who lives in the United States.

poetry
by Lester Gómez Medina, born in Nicaragua, raised in Costa Rica, settled in London; Art and Writing Hearth at Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants; Tatiana Dolgushina, a Soviet refugee, raised in South America before immigrating to the United States; Nuha Fariha, a first-generation Bangladeshi American; Mahima Kaur, a Londoner from India; Asiye Betül, a refugee from Turkey residing in Glasgow; Lina Fadel, a Syrian who has made Edinburgh home; Nashwa Nasreldin, an Egyptian who was born in Kuwait and lives in England; Elias Udo-Ochi, born in Nigeria, residing in Accra; Monica Clarke, a South African refugee who was granted asylum in the UK; Abu Leila, a migrant from Lebanon via Italy; Yaz Nin, born in Kibris, raised in Tottenham.

non-fiction
by Zoë Blaylock, an Italian-born immigrant to the United States; Ali Motamedi from Iran who lives in New York City; Yin F Lim, a Malaysian-born who lives in the UK; Tamara Haque, Bangladeshi by birth, with roots in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Australia.

book review
by Angus W. McGregor, citizen of the United States, making Japan his new home.

September 2022
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The bookmarks for the 2nd print issue arrive

September 2022
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Editors and contributors from the other side of hope will be discussing creativity and migration
Saturday 3rd September
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August 2022
George Sfougaras's Tanner's Gate, the cover of our first online issue, is now a finalist at Best of the Net. 
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August 2022
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August 2022
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The London Review of Books kindly offered us free space in their latest issue
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August 2022

Olivier Llouquet and Alexandros Plasatis work on the second volume

July 2022
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Mother Tongue: On the Language of Migration
Hazel Beevers from The Lit talks with Professor Francesco Goglia and Alexandros Plasatis on how language can help dissolve borders and the power of words
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Read the article HERE.

July 2022
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Sepideh Moafi becomes our ambassador
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Sepideh Moafi is an Iranian-American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in The Deuce (2017–2019), The L Word: Generation Q (2019–2023), and Black Bird (2022).

Moafi was born in a refugee camp in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany. Prior to her birth, her parents fled Iran after the Islamic Revolution. After two years in Turkey and then Germany, where Moafi's parents sought political asylum and claimed refugee status, Moafi's family were granted visas to move to the United States.

During her childhood years, she studied opera and was later pulled into musical theatre and jazz. Moafi started singing at 15 years old and within a year had a full scholarship to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she graduated in 2007. Moafi attended the University of California Irvine to study acting where she later graduated with an MFA in 2013.

June 2022
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New book by our previous contributor Sophie Buchaillard
Sophie Buchaillard was published in our first print issue
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1994, Iris and Victoria are pen friends. Iris writes about her life with her family in Paris. Victoria is in a refugee camp in Goma having fled the genocide in Rwanda in which thousands are being killed. One day Victoria’s letters stop, and Iris is told she has been moved.

Twenty years later Iris, a new mother, is working as a journalist in London. As she prepares to return to work, her thoughts turn to Victoria and what might have happened to her. She pitches a story to her editor which sets her on a journey to find her pen friend. But as she follows the story, things emerge that make her question her own past. Was her father, a French government official, somehow involved in the genocide? Are her childhood memories more fiction than fact? Why is she looking for Victoria, really?

For Victoria, the last twenty years have been ones of migration, to Goma, then to Paris and finally to London. There she starts a new life with her youngest brother Paul, and leaves the past behind. Or so she thinks until she is suddenly confronted with the decision to reconnect with her genocide-supporting middle brother Benjamin.

How have the lives of these two women, who shared a moment in time, changed in the past twenty years? As the pressure of long-kept family secrets builds, will they ever find each other?
Published by Seren Books
​Purchase a copy HERE

May 2022
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Workshop: 'Ethnography Otherwise. Storytelling and the Ordinary'
Thursday 26 May 2022, 2pm to 4pm
​Birmingham University
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Our editor, Alexandros Plasatis, talks about ethnography, writing, and the other side of hope.

May 2022
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Meet Milad. He loves Charlie Chaplin & wants to be an actor one day. He arrived to the UK 2 years ago as a lone refugee child. He’s now perfecting his English by writing & reading poetry This is him reading from the other side of hope.

April 2022
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Writing East Midlands interviews our editor, Alexandros Plasatis, on writing, creative writing workshops with refugees and the other side of hope
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Read the full interview HERE

April 2022
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the other side of hope features at The Times Literary Supplement
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Stories of you and me: Things lost and gained in the telling of refugees’ tales
By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
​Read the review HERE

March 2022
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the other side of hope features in Writers on Reading, a Welsh literary podcast.
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In this new episode, Sophie and Jonathan speak to author and teacher Tyler Keevil about his career, the benefits of Creative Writing in Higher Education, and his gripping thriller, Your Still Beating Heart.
This is followed by two more reviews:
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers.
- The Other Side of Hope Literary Magazine.

Listen to the podcast HERE

March 2022

The project welcomes new people
Amir Darwish (review & interviews editor), Elahe Ziai (communications), Judy Qeis (social media) and Parang Khezri (video editor) join the project
Read more about the team HERE

March 2022
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February 2022

​Sarah Edgcumbe reviews the first print issue for The Norwich Radical

'​The stories and poems contained in this collection are at once confronting, poignant and musical.'
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Read the full review HERE

February 2022
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The magazine is listed on Chill Subs
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View listing HERE

February 2022

The magazine is listed on Poets & Writers
Poets & Writers is one of the largest nonprofit literary organizations in the United States serving poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers
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View the listing HERE

February 2022

the magazine starts a one-year collaboration with the Islington Centre with Refugees and Migrant
This summer we are partnering with Islington Centre for Refugees & Migrants to offer creative writing workshops to their community. Overseen by Sita Brahmachari, migrant clients will produce 1 collaborative poem for print and 10 pieces for the online issue.

February 2022
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Submissions for our second volume open
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February 2022
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the other side of hope receives one-year funding from Arts Council England 
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January 2022

​Rubina Bala, our fiction editor, writes for Nottingham City of Literature
'How can literature provide a community and haven for the voices of refugee and immigrant writers?'
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Read Rubina's article HERE

January 2022
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Our lead editor, Alexandros Plasatis, is shortlisted for The Edge Hill Prize
for his novel in stories, Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness.
The Edge Hill Prize of £10,000 is awarded annually by Edge Hill University for excellence in a published single authored short story collection.​
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January 2022

​The Bookseller features the other side of hope
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'We believe that people need to understand each other, and this magazine exists to enable people to gain insights into us – our lives, our talents and our stories.'

Read Ruth Comeford's short interview with our poetry editor, Malka Al-Haddad, at The Bookseller HERE.

January 2022

Byline Times features the other side of hope
Malka Al-Haddad, our poetry editor, introduces the magazine to Byline Times readers.
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Read Malka's article HERE

December 2021
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our first online issue is out
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our first online issue includes
20 short stories, 66 poems, 18 non-fiction pieces, 2 author interviews & 3 book reviews

​Read the online issue HERE

December 2021

Photos of our first print issue
​as people posted them on social media

December 2021

online launch
​​Friday, 17 December 2021, from 19:30 to 21:30
Presented by Maria Rovisco with talks by Malka Al-Haddad and A.M. Dassu.

Contributors readings by George Sfougaras, Murzban F. Shroff, Marina Antropow Cramer, Madalena Daleziou, Qin Sun Stubis, Sahra Mohamed, Radhika Maira Tabrez, Minaxi Champaneri, Bänoo Zan, and Musembi Wa’ Ndaita.


December 2021

Launch at Leeds University
Wednesday, 7 December, 2.30pm to 4.30pm
hosted by the Bauman Institute
Social Sciences SR (14.33), Social Sciences Building - University of Leeds.

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Maria Rovisco, Anne Collins, Malka Al-Haddad, Amir Darwish

November 2021
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Richart Byrt reviews the magazine for Everybody's Reviewing
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Read the review HERE

November 2021
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October 2021
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Creative Writing at Leicester features the magazine
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Read the blog entry HERE

October 2021
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We donate 500 copies to refugee centres and Public Libraries of Sanctuary
 You can find out about where our print copies were donated HERE

September 2021
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Launch of first print issue at Leicester Cathedral
as part of Journeys International Festival 
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Mostafa, Alexandros Plasatis, Malka Al-Haddad, Maria Rovisco, David Hill and Rubina Bala at Leicester Cathedral

September 2021

​our first print issue is out
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featuring refugee & immigrant writers from around the world

fiction by: 
Qin Sun Stubis, a Chinese immigrant living in Washington, D.C.; Radhika Maira Tabrez, whose home is split between Delhi, Dhaka, and Penang; Marina Antropow Cramer – born in Germany, the child of Russian refugees from the Soviet Union, who emigrated with her family to the United States; Madalena Daleziou, a Greek writer living in Glasgow; J.B Polk – Polish by birth, a citizen of world by choice; Musembi Wa’ Ndaita, a Kenyan writer based in Philadelphia.

poetry by:
Atar Hadari, an immigrant; Bingh, a refugee from Vietnam who lives in the US; Kimia Etemadi, who moved from Iran to England as a baby with her mother; Amer Raawan, a Syrian refugee who lives in London; Middle Eastern Women’s Friendship Group – a group of refugee women writers who live in Edinburgh; Alberto Quero, who moved from Venezuela to Canada; Flower, who arrived in the UK from Africa and was put in Yarl’s Wood detention centre; Bänoo Zan, an Iranian immigrant who lives in Canada.

non-fiction by:
Dan Alex, who arrived in the UK from Eastern Europe; Murzban F. Shroff, who lives in India; Jhon Sánchez, a Colombian-born writer who arrived in New York seeking political asylum; Sahra Mohamed, a Somalian immigrant who lives in London.

And book reviews by Lucy Popescu & Kathryn Aldridge-Morris.

July 2021

​Lord Alf Dubs becomes our second patron 
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Alf Dubs was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Dubs was one of 669 children saved by British stockbroker Nicholas Winton, and others, from the Nazis on the Kindertransport between March and September 1939. His father, Hubert, had fled to England the day the Nazis arrived in Czechoslovakia and met young Alf at Liverpool Street station. Alf later said that he clearly remembered leaving Prague station at age six and not touching the food pack given to him by his mother for the next two days. His mother was initially denied a visa but was able to join him and his father in London shortly afterwards.

In 2016, Lord Dubs tabled what became section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 by which UK local authorities admitted unaccompanied minors housed in EU refugee camps who were mainly asylum seekers.

July 2021

​First live Q&A session with the other side of hope
8pm, Friday 2nd July 2021 - Instagram Live
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Maria Rovisco, Rubina Bala, and Alexandros Plasatis will talk about the project and answer questions. Join us on Instagram @OtherSideLitMag


June 2021

​A.M. Dassu becomes our first patron
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A. M. Dassu is an English writer of fiction and non-fiction. In 2017, Dassu won the international We Need Diverse Books mentorship award. Her bestselling debut novel, Boy, Everywhere, was published in October 2020, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Waterstone's Children's Books Prize, and won the 2021 The Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction. A. M. Dassu donated a large part of the prize towards the second volume of the other side of hope​.

Visit A. M. Dassu's website HERE

May 2021
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the magazine is featured in Voice
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Read the blog entry HERE

February 2021

​The magazine is listed on Duotrope,​an established, award-winning resource for writers and artists.
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Find the entry HERE

February 2021

​Submissions for our first volume open
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February 2021

​​the other side of hope receives one-year funding from Arts Council England
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December 2020
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​The first team is formed:
​Alexandros Plasatis (lead editor), Maria Rovisco (non-fiction editor), Olivier Llouquet (design), Malka Al-Haddad (poetry editor), Hansa Dasgupta (fiction editor) and Rubina Bala (reviews & interviews editor, and social media).
​Alexandros Plasatis
Maria Rovisco
Olivier Llouquet
Malka Al-Haddad
Hansa Dasgupta
Rubina Bala
Read more about the team HERE

September 2020
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During the pandemic, Alexandros Plasatis met with Maddie Smart for a walk at Victoria Park in Leicester and shared his idea of creating a literary magazine that would be edited by immigrants and refugees, and that would publish and offer payment to refugee, immigrant and asylum seeker writers from across the world. At the time Maddie worked for ArtReach and was developing the refugee festival Journeys Festival International. Maddie proposed to support Alexandros with the writing of an ACE funding application, and ArtReach offered £1,000 as funding for the project.
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