"the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature" is a UK-based literary magazine edited by refugees and immigrants.
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.
