volume 2, issue 2, december 2022
​(online edition)
​ISSN 2754-2505

The Good Arab? by Dmitry Borshch

foreword by Sabir Zazai

fiction

​Uncle Jamal
L. Amani
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Their Vow
Lena Rissmann
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Disillusion
Anesu Jahura 

The Retired Troublemaker
Halina Goldstein
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Calculating Time Spanning Oceans
Naomi Abraham 

The Bandits
Dariusz Janczewski  

To All of You Who Carry Me
Radhika Maira Tabrez

December '89
Dani Vilu

Allan Brown's Story
Anisha Bhaduri
 
Maple Leaf Barbecue [Same/Different] 
Marina Antropow Cramer ​

novel excerpt​

Janine
Agata Maslowska

non-fiction

​What is Culture?
Bänoo Zan

Fourteen Years
Gee I Vee

The High Price of Rescue
Grant Hayter-Menzies

Go Home!
Amritha Sobrun-Maharaj

Fresno
Sheela Burrell

Looking for a Job: Foreigner Style
Tara Goldsmith

Finding Pieces of Myself across Continents
Christina Hoag

In My Mother's Shoes
Elisabeth Hanscombe

Can Asian Immigrants Speak?: White, Asian American, and Immigrant Trio in Fiction and Film
Sheng-mei Ma

WITHOUT CAPTAIN AMERICA, BILLY the KID, FORREST GUMP OR FLOWERS; The Making of an Immigrant
Youngbear Roth​

Patchwork of Hope

a collection of
​poetry, prose & art
​by the Art & Writing Hearth
​at Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants
​
​guest-edited by Sita Brahmachari

Introduction to Patchwork of Hope collection
Sita Brahmachari

Essence of Welcome
​Art & Writing Hearth

Art Diary
N

Hope Rising
Koffi

Letter to my daughter, Hope 
​Sandra

The Garden of My Mind
Ntela

I love you Maman
Betty

City of Jasmine, Damascus 2010
Fuad Alsohli

Our Heart’s Desire
EE

Finding my Voice
​Angele Mambangula

Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants
​Art & Writing Hearth

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book reviews

Lucy Popescu reviews
The Naked Don't Fear the Water 

Yakin Kinger reviews
Torn from the Roots

feature

Angela Graham writes about
Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere

poetry

Murderous hand of our Promising Haven by Godwin Akinyele
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Natal Homing by Saheli Khastahir
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Detention: #8 = ♾ Infinity (Indefinite) by Joel Mordi

Longing by Annie Liones Nguyen
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seeking dreams in the streets by Loraine Masiya Mponela 

The Song of the Foreign Knight by David Davies

Not quite exile by Jen Ross 

Witnessing The Herdsmen Massacre, or This Is How You Leave Home by Iveren Cheku

Can you lend me your home? by Aryan Ashory 

The Boy who Loved Water by Michele Witthaus

Crossing arbitrary lines by B. Anne Adriaens

Memory Evaluation by Maryna Krazhova

Split by Edward Gunawan

Nzulezu by Gabriel Awuah Mainoo 

A Song For Lokwa by Diyo Mulopo Bopengo

substantial presence test by Abhirami S

The Longest Night by Tonderai Chiyindiko

For newcomers, Fort McMurray by Eric Abalajon

Break Everything by Morning-meadow Jones

Stranger by Priscilla Okoye
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Roots in water by Divyanka Sharma

Homing Instinct by Monica Mody

Physical Forgetfulness by Yessica Klein

 Three Poems by Ambrose Musiyiwa

 Sand by Sunayna Pal

Bembé by Landa wo

 For my fellow refugee mothers by Patricia

Cardinal Points by Carolina Tytelman

Two Mornings by Roger Craik 

Tsunami, 2004 by Daniel W.K. Lee

Lingua Franca by Rifat Mahbub

Phonetics by Akshi Chadha 

The tip of my tongue by Katrina Macapagal 

Eastbound by Gabriele Uboldi

Herculean effort by Lucía Pereira

the poetry day and pornography of war by Rad Popp​

team

contributors' notes

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