vol 3.1, autumn 2023 (print edition)
130 pages | softback
ISSN 2754-2491
autumn 2023
featuring refugee & immigrant writers from around the world
‘Essential, illuminating and powerful… the other side of hope brings to light the lives that the world often prefers to ignore.’
Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize Winner for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
‘I find this project deeply inspiring and so important to world literature. Immigrant stories are so often cast through the lens of the native born. Just as often they’re marginalized or pigeonholed, with only a few voices taken seriously by Westerner gatekeepers on purely artistic grounds – often those breakthrough voices belong to those schooled in western storytelling. Here is a literary magazine that invites displaced people to tell their own stories in their own way, and to be a part of a larger literary and artistic conversation beyond migration politics. I’m so moved!’
Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee & Who Gets Believed
foreword by Sally Hayden
fiction || poetry || non-fiction || author interview
artwork
by Alice Attie, a Syrian-American artist and writer. Crossings is a body of work which Attie began on her return from Aleppo in 2011, as the war in Syria was beginning to take hold.
fiction
by Dariusz Janczewski, who defected from Poland to Italy in 1984 and then immigrated as a refugee to the USA; Din Havolli from Prishtina, Kosovo, who sought asylum in the UK in the wake of the Balkan Wars; Garry Engkent, who immigrated from China to Canada; Karan Kapoor, from New Delhi, who made Virginia their new home; Kushinga Hare, a former asylum seeker from Zimbabwe who lives in the UK; Laila Ershad Gharzai, who grew up as a refugee in the Netherlands and hasn’t had a permanent home since leaving Kabul; Sofia Ezdina, a Russian storyteller now based in Cyprus.
poetry
by Davina Fogel, who moved from Ahmedabad, India, to Israel before settling in the USA; Haider Irfan, who moved from Pakistan to New York at the age of 5; Hussain Shah Rezaie from Afghanistan, who lives as a refugee in Tanjung Pinang, Indonesia; Inga Piotrowska, an immigrant from Poland who settled in Manchester, UK; Javeria Hasnain, born in Karachi, residing in New York; Malika Abdulhamidova, a Londoner from Tajikistan, of Uzbek and indigenous Pamiri origins; Melanie Hering, from a family of German-Russian immigrants who lives in London; Melissa Andrés, originally from Cuba, who arrived in the USA as a refugee at the age of six; Priscilla Okoye, a Nigerian living in London, who experienced the UK’s asylum system; Qila Gill, a dual heritage Malaysian living between London and Berlin; Sahar Othmani, a Tunisian who grew up in Oman and now lives between the UK and the UAE; Sarah Uheida, who at the age of 13 escaped the Libyan Civil War with her family and emigrated to South Africa; Sarwa Azeez, who hails from Kurdistan and resides in the USA.
non-fiction
by Azadeh Hashemian, an Iranian based in the UK; Claire Jabbour, born in Beirut, settled in the UK aged 17, after having been evacuated from the civil war in Lebanon 3 times; Eduardo Frajman, who grew up in San José, Costa Rica, and now lives in Illinois; Muti'ah Badruddeen, a Nigerian who, after 12 years in Saudi Arabia, is on the brink of another move; Nina Kossman, a Jewish refugee born in the former Soviet Union.
poems by young refugees
A collection of poems by young refugees most of whom are alone in the UK without their families, supported by the London-based charity Young Roots.
author interview
Aliya Abidi interviews Brendan Woodhouse, co-author of Doro: Refugee, hero, champion, survivor.
any profit from sales will go towards our third volume,
so we can keep the magazine running and paying our contributors
ISSN 2754-2491
autumn 2023
featuring refugee & immigrant writers from around the world
‘Essential, illuminating and powerful… the other side of hope brings to light the lives that the world often prefers to ignore.’
Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize Winner for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
‘I find this project deeply inspiring and so important to world literature. Immigrant stories are so often cast through the lens of the native born. Just as often they’re marginalized or pigeonholed, with only a few voices taken seriously by Westerner gatekeepers on purely artistic grounds – often those breakthrough voices belong to those schooled in western storytelling. Here is a literary magazine that invites displaced people to tell their own stories in their own way, and to be a part of a larger literary and artistic conversation beyond migration politics. I’m so moved!’
Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee & Who Gets Believed
foreword by Sally Hayden
fiction || poetry || non-fiction || author interview
artwork
by Alice Attie, a Syrian-American artist and writer. Crossings is a body of work which Attie began on her return from Aleppo in 2011, as the war in Syria was beginning to take hold.
fiction
by Dariusz Janczewski, who defected from Poland to Italy in 1984 and then immigrated as a refugee to the USA; Din Havolli from Prishtina, Kosovo, who sought asylum in the UK in the wake of the Balkan Wars; Garry Engkent, who immigrated from China to Canada; Karan Kapoor, from New Delhi, who made Virginia their new home; Kushinga Hare, a former asylum seeker from Zimbabwe who lives in the UK; Laila Ershad Gharzai, who grew up as a refugee in the Netherlands and hasn’t had a permanent home since leaving Kabul; Sofia Ezdina, a Russian storyteller now based in Cyprus.
poetry
by Davina Fogel, who moved from Ahmedabad, India, to Israel before settling in the USA; Haider Irfan, who moved from Pakistan to New York at the age of 5; Hussain Shah Rezaie from Afghanistan, who lives as a refugee in Tanjung Pinang, Indonesia; Inga Piotrowska, an immigrant from Poland who settled in Manchester, UK; Javeria Hasnain, born in Karachi, residing in New York; Malika Abdulhamidova, a Londoner from Tajikistan, of Uzbek and indigenous Pamiri origins; Melanie Hering, from a family of German-Russian immigrants who lives in London; Melissa Andrés, originally from Cuba, who arrived in the USA as a refugee at the age of six; Priscilla Okoye, a Nigerian living in London, who experienced the UK’s asylum system; Qila Gill, a dual heritage Malaysian living between London and Berlin; Sahar Othmani, a Tunisian who grew up in Oman and now lives between the UK and the UAE; Sarah Uheida, who at the age of 13 escaped the Libyan Civil War with her family and emigrated to South Africa; Sarwa Azeez, who hails from Kurdistan and resides in the USA.
non-fiction
by Azadeh Hashemian, an Iranian based in the UK; Claire Jabbour, born in Beirut, settled in the UK aged 17, after having been evacuated from the civil war in Lebanon 3 times; Eduardo Frajman, who grew up in San José, Costa Rica, and now lives in Illinois; Muti'ah Badruddeen, a Nigerian who, after 12 years in Saudi Arabia, is on the brink of another move; Nina Kossman, a Jewish refugee born in the former Soviet Union.
poems by young refugees
A collection of poems by young refugees most of whom are alone in the UK without their families, supported by the London-based charity Young Roots.
author interview
Aliya Abidi interviews Brendan Woodhouse, co-author of Doro: Refugee, hero, champion, survivor.
any profit from sales will go towards our third volume,
so we can keep the magazine running and paying our contributors
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Refunds & Returns
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Shipments to countries outside of the UK are subject to Value Added Tax (VAT) charges. Orders placed through this website are shipped Delivery Duties Unpaid (DDU) and customers outside of the UK may have to pay import VAT (and customs duties, if payable) and a handling fee in the receiving country.
