volume 1, issue 2, november 2021
​(online edition)
​ISSN 2754-2505

Tanner's Gate by George Sfougaras

artist's statement by George Sfougaras

fiction

​Once upon a Time in America
Nick Padron 
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The Queen of Artichoke Hearts
Vishwas Gaitonde 

Dealer
Nick Mulgrew 

Hands Across The Water
Jorge Saralegui

My Suffering is your Life
Benjamin Abtan 

Reggae Radicalism
Foday Mannah  

Azadi March
Usman Mahar

Child Bride
Rasha Roshdy 

Metamorphosis
Sophie Buchaillard
 
Song of the New Land
Victoria Chvatal 

Lost
Ronita Sinha 

Host Mother's House
Filippa N. Johansen

Ghosts Don't Cry 
Yulia Tseytlin

Roots
Dima Mekdad 

The Magic Chrysler
Matias Travieso-Diaz

 Tek-Tek’s Game
Masimba Musodza 

Sand, Sea and Tamburello
Stefania Hartley

Love, Loss and Recipes
Angela Zaher

An Eachigothian in Acron
H. T. Brickner

The Bed 
Jessica Nero ​

non-fiction

​The Crossing to England
Amir Darwish

Passage to Canada
Victor Pogostin

The Land of the Leaving
paulo da costa

Medical Examination
Lazarus Trubman

Escape from Vienna
David Blumenfeld 

Call me Ana
Tara Goldsmith

Deep Impact
Anne Collins

Memoir of an Odd Immigrant
Leela Floyd  

The Crime of Drinking Water
Ako Karim 

East to East
Joanna Sit 

London City Transit Photo ID
Miodrag Kojadinović

Bluelogue
Ioanna Akoumianaki

Love and Labne
Mandy Shunnarah 

Immigrant’s Eye
Xu Xi

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Kathy Mairs 

Tales of Internment
Sonia Lambert

Distanced Learning
Deborah Schmedemann

The Story of a Real Person
Aslandek Dadaev  ​

interviews

Joe Bedford interviews Lucy Popescu
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Martina Petkova interviews Will Buckingham   

book reviews

Yakin Ajay Kinger reviews Remnants of a Separation 

Alex Hales reviews Boy, Everywhere
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Saliha Haddad reviews Little Bother: A Refugee’s Odyssey 

poetry

The Foreigner by Nashwa Nasreldin 

kindness by K. Eltinaé 

 Your Bleeding Star Doesn't Err
 The Boiling Bed and the Frozen Surface
by Mohammed Ash
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Icebreakers
 \I was eight|I am sixteen/I will be twenty-four
by Jaric Sarmiento 

Dreams next city by David Ishaya Osu

London
 England seen by a foreigner who has lived for too long in there
Smack
We have been stung by the word
by Luis Elvira-Sierra 

I’m a desert girl
 Jézus Beside the Bed
by Timea Sipos 

Scorpion Stings
Arab Men Don’t Cry, My Father Says
History Speaks in Its Dry Voice
by Andrew J. Calis 

Jesus Never Visited Gaza by Rebecca Ruth Gould

Remember by Ebele Mogo

Belarusian Spring by Maryna Krazhova

New Tongues by Audrey Ilwyn

The Scream by Mar Nwe Aye 

Someone else’s shirt & trousers by Lester Gómez Medina

Don’t Give Me Half-Measures of Anything by Yessica Klein

Sea to Skye by Daria Kulesh

 Refugees by Pitambar Naik

As a New Comer by Yuan Changming

Time by Majid Adin 

Scotland by Oasis Women’s Group at Maryhill Integration Network

normal things by Votey Cheav

The new Saint George by Ilya Gutner 

 Fledgling by Saanjana Kapoor

 (un)documented by Matt Schroeder

 Mr Nobody by Burak Sahim 

 Ransom Paid by Yordanos Gebrehiwot

English pronouns by Mwaffaq Alhajjar

Her by Sara Cook 

A New Story by Meng Qiu

Name by Mahima Kaur

The voice of the wind by Aso 

Cries of a migrant in search of freedom by Jeanette Cathy Jones 

Skype family by mona rae

All we have is us by Sanmeet Kaur 

My New Country by Jade Jackson

Bloom by Ana Fores-Tamayo

Don’t come back here by Loraine Masiya Mponela 

Coeval by Sneha Subramanian Kanta

Losing my language by Gabriela Halas

The Old Man and the Shoe by Ari Honarvar

Refugee Witness by Sabir Zazai

Here We Are by Fatena al Shubaki 

Agony of a Voyager
Life in a floating boat
by Abwe Lovett Ngwese 

Who Are Ya? by N.A. 

Ruination by Anastasia Christou

The Monster in Salzmarkt by Zohra Mousavi

About war I’m talking by Faleeha Hassan

Transitions by Moossa Casseem 

Tributum by Tineke Van der Eecken
 
You, back there by Mehdi Hamisi 

MSF Kabul Hospital by Shukria Rezaei 

Then Where by Zouhour Alkhaled 

Savannah’s Sky by Francesco Capussela

Glimmer of Hope by N.B. 

Brown Jazz by Saba Karim Khan 

Deathbed by Allan Lake

My bored ass caught a tram by Mr Tilden 
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