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Since 2021, we have donated thousands of copies to refugee centres, charities, and libraries of sanctuary.

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spring 2025
vol 4.2

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featuring refugee & immigrant poets from across the world

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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

autumn 2024
vol 4.1

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featuring refugee & immigrant writers from around the world

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

winter 2024
vol 3.3

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volume 3, issue 3, january 2024

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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


winter 2023
vol 3.2

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volume 3, issue 2, december 2023

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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
 collection of poetry by young refugee women at Young Roots and Refugee Council

autumn 2023
vol 3.1

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featuring refugee & immigrant writers from around the world

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7 short stories, 17 poems, 5 non-fiction pieces, 1 author interview, and poems by young refugees supported by Young Roots

winter 2022
vol 2.2

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volume 2, issue 2, december 2022
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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
 

autumn 2022
vol 2.1

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featuring refugee & immigrant writers from around the world

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5 short stories, 13 poems, 4 non-fiction pieces, 1 book review

​winter 2021
vol 1.2

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​volume 1, issue 2, november 2021
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our first online issue includes
20 short stories, 66 poems, 18 non-fiction pieces, 2 author interviews & 3 book reviews


autumn 2021
vol 1.1

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featuring refugee & immigrant writers from around the world

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

6 short stories, 11 poems, 4 non-fiction pieces, 2 book reviews

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