Incwriters Recommended Magazine Listings is a regularly updated list of magazines that publish fiction and poetry. The list was originally founded by William Park.

The magazines listed on this page are not imprints of Inc., Incwriters or The Incwriters Society. The magazines are managed by editorial teams independent of The Society’s Constitution. The Society has endeavoured to ensure that all information printed here is correct, however prices and details are subject to change. These magazines are produced without the aid of Inc., Incwriters or The Incwriters Society.

If any details on this page are incorrect please let Magazine Listings Managing Editor know by emailing them at: magazinelistings_incwriters (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk.

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Acumen. Patricia Oxley, 6 The Mount, Higher Furzeham, Brixham, Devon TQ5 8QY 

Aesthetica. Editor: Cherie Federico, PO Box 371, York YO23 1WL, UK. No longer accepts submissions. Individual issue: £3.90. See website for subscription offers. info@aestheticamagazine.com www.aestheticamagazine.com

Agenda. Patricia McCarthy, The Wheelwrights, Fletching Street, Mayfield East, Sussex TN20 6TL.

Ambit. Martin Bax, 17 Priory Gardens, London N6 5QY.

Anon. Poems are submitted anonymously. Editor: Mike Stocks, 67 Learmonth Grove, Edinburgh. EH4 1BL, Scotland. Email: mike@volta1.fsworld.co.uk. Website: www.blanko.org.uk/anon. Three issues + postage: £12 or One issue + postage: £4.50. Cheques payable to Anon.

Arête. Craig Raine, c/o P & G Wells Limited, 11 College Street, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9LZ. Single issue £7.99

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Ballista: speculative fiction, short story horror, speculative fiction. www.flapjackpress.co.uk Issue 7, autumn 2009, will be the last issue. Current issue (6) available at £4. Back issues £3.

Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. Poems, short stories, novel excerpts, author interviews, profiles. Publisher & Editor: Margaret Obank, PO Box 223300, London W13 8ZQ. Email: editor@banipal.co.uk. Website: www.banipal.co.uk. Two free issues with every new full subscription UK 1 year: £20.00 or Single issues: £7.00 (UK) £10.00 (rest of Europe). Winner of 2008 Incwriters OCL(M) Award.

Black Static (formerly The Third Alternative). TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB. Sub: 6 issues, £21.00. Email: info@ttapress.demon.co.uk. Website: http://www.ttapress.com

Blithe Spirit, Journal of the British Haiku Society. Colin Blundell, Longholm, East Bank, Wingland, Sutton Bridge, Spalding, Lincs PE12 9YS.

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The Chimaera. Online magazine. 3 times a year. Poetry & prose. Interviews and reviews. Editor: Paul Stevens. editor@the-chimaera.com www.the-chimaera.com

Cadenza. Co-Editors John Ravenscroft, Zoe King. Cadenza Fiction (up to 4,000 wds) and Subscriptions (£15.50 per year, 4 issues). 2 Coastguard Cottages, Freiston Shore, Boston, Lincs. PE22 OLZ. Poetry (up to 40 lines) to Fiona Curnow, c/o 53 Assarts Rd, Malvern Wells, Worcs WR14 4HW. Email: fiona.curnow@virgin.net

Cake. Lancaster Literary Magazine. Inaugural issue: October 09. Poetry, flash fiction, articles. Send 1-5 poems or up to 500wds of flash fiction in body of email to themixingbowl@hotmail.co.uk Editors: Martha Sprackland, Andrew McMillan.

Chapman. Editor: Joy Hendry, 4 Broughton Place, Edinburgh EH1 3RX, Scotland. Tel: 0131 557 2207. Email: chapman-pub@blueyonder.co.uk. Subscription details found at: http://www.chapman-pub.co.uk/subscribe.php

Critical Quarterly. Editor: Colin MacCabe, Dept. of English, University of Pittsburg, PA 15260, USA. www.criticalquarterly.com

Chimera. Robert Cole – Poetry Editor. (6 poems max.), Susie Reynolds – Prose Editor. (1500 wds, max.), 118 Nayland Road, Colchester CO4 5ET, Essex. Bi-annual. £10 per annum. Back copy: £3, inc. post&packing. Cheques to: Robert Cole. Send with SAE. Website: http://www.chimeramagazine.co.uk/.

Critical Survey. Published/distributed by Berghahn Books. Academic journal. General editor: Graham Holderness, Uni of Herts. Editor: Andrew Maunder, Uni of Herts. Poetry (Reviews) Editor: John Lucas, Nottingham Trent Uni. Article submissions to Andrew Maunder, English Literature Group, School of Humanities, Uni of Hertfordshire, DeHavilland Campus, Hatfield, Hertfordshire.AL10 9AB. Email: a.c.maunder@herts.ac.uk. 3 issues p.a. Annual subscriptions: Individual rate (free online access): £30. Single issue: £16 (+ postage) Website: www.berghahnbooksonline.com/journals/cs

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Dew-on-line. E-zine, offshoot of former STILL magazine. Editor: ai li. Website: http://www.into.demon.co.uk/dew/

Dream Catcher. Purchase online at www.inpressbooks.co.uk or www.dreamcatchermagazine.co.uk  Editor: Paul Sutherland. Jasmine Cottage, 4, Church St, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. LN8 3ET. Email: paulsuther@hotmail.com. Bi-annual. 3 issues £15 (inc.p&p) cheque payable to Dream Catcher, or Single copy: £7.

English. Journal of the English Association, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH. Appears 3 times a year. Correspondence and contributions for ENGLISH, except reviews and poetry should be sent to: Professor Ken Newton, Department of English, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN. Books for review and poetry should be sent to: Peter Barry, Department of English, University of Wales, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 3DY.

Envoi. Editor: Dr.Jan Fortune-Wood, c/o Cinnamon Press, Meirion House, Glan yr afon, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd LL41 3SU. Email: jan@cinnamonpress.com. Website: www.cinnamonpress.com. Appears: February, June, October. Single issues: £5.50. Annual: £15. Cheques payable: Cinnamon press. Submissions: up to 6 poems, by post, or in body of an email.

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The Flea. An occasional online broadsheet. Editor: Paul Stevens. editor@the-flea.com www.the-flea.com

Fragmente. Critical Studies. Andrew Lawson, Dept. of English, University of Durham, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham DH1 3JT.

The Frogmore Papers. Jeremy Page, 18 Nevill Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1PF. Sample copy £3.50. Submissions for March issue considered July – Dec, September issue considered Jan – June. 

Front&Centre. Matthew Firth, 4-C Alexandra Place, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9XD, Scotland. £5 for two issues (one year). Cheques payable to “M.Firth”. New fiction welcome 50-4000 words.

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Grain (Canada). Website: http://www.grainmagazine.ca/

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Iota: PO Box 7721, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 9DD, UK. Single copy £6.50 (UK). 3 issues: £15. Head of Editorial Team: Nigel McLoughlin. Jane Weir (Fictions Editor). Kate North (Reviews Editor). www.iotamagazine.co.uk

The Irish Pages: The Linen Hall Library, 17 Donegall Sq North, Belfast. BT1 5GB. Bi-annual. Issues: £10. Email: irishpages@yahoo.co.uk. Website: www.irishpages.org. Distributed by Central Books (0845 458 9911). Email: sasha@centralbooks.com

The Interpreter’s House. Editor: Merryn Williams. Poetry and short stories. 19, The Paddox, Squitchey Lane, Oxford. OX2 7PN. Subscriptions to: Matt Bright, 80 Spencer Crescent, Rose Hill, Oxford. OX4 4SW. 3 issues: £10. Single copy: £3 + 50p. Website: www.interpretershouse.org.uk

Interzone. TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB. Sub: 6 issues, £21.00. Email: info@ttapress.demon.co.uk. Website: www.ttapress.com

Island. Short stories, poetry, novel extracts, articles, essays. Editor: Gina Mercer. PO Box 210, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7006. Australia. Sub rates: overseas: individuals $60. Within Australia: $ 46. Website: www.islandmag.com

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Jacket (Australia). Editor: John Tranter. Website: http://www.jacketmagazine.com/

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The Liberal – Poetry, Politics, Culture. Editor: Ben Ramm, 208-210a High Road, East Finchley, London. N2 9AY. £3 per issue, bi-monthly. Subscriptions: 6 issues: £17. 12 issues: £27. The Liberal, PO Box 42749, London. N2 OXX. Email: editor@theliberal.co.uk. Website: www.theliberal.co.uk

Libertine Magazine. Editors: Anne Louise Kershaw, Carley Moulton. Quarterly. £4 per issue. Subscription: £14.40. Libraries/universities: £12.80. Cheque/postal order (payable A.L.Kershaw), 20 Napier St., Stockport. SK7 4EW. Email: libertinemagazine@ntlworld.com or libertinemagazine@hotmail.com. Website: www.myspace.com/libertinemagazine

London Magazine: A Review of Literature and The Arts. Editor: Sara-Mae Tucson, 32 Addison Grove, London W4 1ER. Email: editorial@thelondonmagazine.net. Single issues: £6.95. See website for submission details.

London Review of Books. Mary-Kay Wilmers, 28-30 Little Russell Street, London WC1A 2HN.

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Magma. Different editor for each issue. Contributions by email (not attachments) to: contributions@magmapoetry.com or post to: David Boll, Magma, 43 Keslake Road, London NW6 6DH. Books for review to be sent to: Laurie Smith, 23 Pine Walk, Carshalton. SM5 4ES. Price per copy:£4.95. + postage = £5.70. Subs, 3 issues per year: £14.50. Website: http://www.magmapoetry.com/

The Manchester Review. Online journal. Published by the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester. Submissions by hand copy only. Editor: Simon Richardson, Centre for New Writing, 2.15 Mansfield Cooper Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester. M13 9PL, UK. Queries: simon.richardson@manchester.ac.uk  www.themanchesterreview.co.uk

Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings. General Editor: Shirley Chew, School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT. UK. Fiction, poetry, articles. Biannual. Subscription: Individuals: 1 year 25pound. Students: 1 year 10pound. Email: mworlds@leeds.ac.uk. Website: www.movingworlds.net

Mslexia – for women who write. Editor: Debbie Taylor, PO Box 656, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE99 1PZ. News, reviews, interviews, competitions. Poetry and prose. £18.75 per year. Four issues, incl. p & p. Email: postbag@mslexia.demon.co.uk. Winner of 2006 Incwriters OCL(M) Award.

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Neon Highway. Avant-garde literary journal. Poetry & Art. Submissions of poetry to Editor: Alice Lenkiewicz, 37 Grinshill Close,Liverpool L8 8LD. Enclose SAE.  Subs: 2 issues £5.50. Single issue £3.00. Cheques to Alice Lenkiewicz. Website: www.geocities.com/poetshideout/Neon.html Email: neonhighwaypoetry@yahoo.co.uk

The North. Peter Sansom and Ann Sansom, The Poetry Business, Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield S1 2DS. Subscription (2 issues) £15. Single: £8. Cheques payable: The Poetry Business. Email: office@poetrybusiness.co.uk Website: http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/

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Obsessed With Pipework. Flarestack Publishing, 8 Abbot’s Way, Pilton, Somerset BA4 4BN. Tel: 01749 890019. £12 for four issues. Email: cannula.dementia@virgin.net

Open Wide Magazine. Independent arts magazine. Email: contact@openwidemagazine.co.uk. Fiction, Poetry, Reviews. Editor: Jim Quinton, 40 Wingfield Rd, Lakenheath, Brandon, Suffolk IP27 9HR. Subs: £4/$9 single issue, 50p/$2 postage. Payable to: James Quinton. Submissions:Fiction (500-2500 wds), Poetry, Reviews (art, books, music, films). Send as Word doc attachment titled OWM, and In Courier font size 12,double-spaced, to: submissions@openwidemagazine.co.uk. Website: www.openwidemagazine.co.uk

Orbis. Carole Baldock, 17 Greenhow Avenue, West Kirby, Wirral CH48 5EL. Submissions: 4 poems; via email pasted in body. Single issue: £4. Email: carolebaldock@hotmail.com. 

Other Poetry. 29 Western Hill, Durham DH1 4RL. Subscription (3 issues) £13. Single: £4.50. Email: editors@otherpoetry.com. Website: www.otherpoetry.com

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Papertiger: new world poetry. P O Box 5532, West End QLD 4101, Australia. Email:  editor@papertigermedia.com

Parameter. Poems, Stories, Articles (Art, Film, Literature). Website: www.parametermagazine.org. Email: editor@parametermagazine.org

Pearl (USA). Joan Jobe Smith, 3030E Second Street, Long Beach, CA 90803. Reading Sept-May (enclose IRC’s).

Poetry Salzburg Review. Dr. Wolfgang Görtschacher, University of Salzburg, Akademiestr. 24 A-5020 Salzburg, AUSTRIA.

Poetry Wales.  Submissions to: Robert Minhinnick, 11 Park Avenue, Porthcawl, CF36 3EP. Wales. Books for review to: Poetry Wales, 57 Nolton Street, Bridgend. CF31 3AE. Subscription, one year: £16 (4 issues). Website: www.seren-books.com.

Poetry Review. Editor: Fiona Sampson, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX. Email: poetryreview@poetrysociety.org.uk

Poetry Quarterly Review. Derrick Woolf, Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey, Somerset. TA5 1NQ. Tilla Brading reviews editor.

Poetry New Zealand. Editor: Alistair Paterson. Two issues per year. Subscriptions: Poetry NZ, 37 Margot St, Epsom, Auckland 1051, New Zealand. Submissions: Poetry NZ, 34B Methuen Road, Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand. Website: www.geocities.com/poetrynz

Pennine Platform. Nicholas Bielby, Frizingley Hall, Frizinghall Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD9 4LD.

Penniless Press. Alan Dent, 100 Waterloo Rd, Ashton, Preston PR2 1EP. Subscriptions: £8.50 for 4 issues. Single issues £2.50.

Poet’s Letter Magazine. Editor: Meenayem Mayenin. Email: editor@poetsletter.com. Print & online magazine, monthly. Poet’s Letter limited, 75 Cannon Street, London EC4N 5BN. Website: www.poetsletter.com

PN Review. Editor: Michael Schmidt, Alliance House, 30 Cross Street, Manchester. M2 7AQ. Subs: 6 issues, £29.50. Subscribers have free access to magazine online. Website: www.pnreview.co.uk

Poetry (Chicago). Joseph Parisi, the Modern Poetry Association, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610-3305. Single copies: $3.75, plus $1.75 postage, for current issue $4.25, plus $1.75, for back issues.

Poetry Greece & Hellenic Quarterly. Website: http://genesis.ee.auth.gr/dimakis/greekpoetransl.html

Poetry London. Maurice Riordan, Poetry Editor, 6 Daniels Road, London SE15 3LR. Main Office: 1a, Jewel Road, London E17 4QU. £5 single issue. £15 three issues. Website: www.poetrylondon.co.uk.

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Random Acts Of Writing. Managing Editor: Vikki Trelfer. Short stories, the occasional poem. Lower Knock-na-Shalavaig, Struy, Beauly, Inverness-shire IV4 7JU. Subscriptions: £9 for 3 issues, cheques to ‘Random Acts of Writing’. Individual copies, £3, + 50p postage. Submissions: by email, as an attachment, with SUBMISSIONS in the subject line. Email: randomactsofwriting@fsmail.net. Website: www.randomactsofwriting.co.uk.

The Reader.  Single issues are £6. Subscriptions: £24 for 1 year (4 issues), £38 for 2 years (8 issues), £56 for 3 years (12 issues). Cheques payable to University of Liverpool. Send work with SAE to: The Reader Office, 19 Abercromby Sq., Liverpool L69 7ZG. Email: readers@thereader.co.uk. Website: www.thereader.co.uk.

The Rialto. Michael Mackmin, PO Box 309, Aylsham, Norwich NR11 6LN. Subscriptions: £15 or £11 if on low income. For 3 issues. Single issues: £5.50. 

Rue Bella. 16 Albion Terrace, Hebden Bridge, W.Yorks HX7 6BE or Nigel Bird, 2F1, 15 Warrender Park Terrace, Edinburgh EH9 1EG  

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20X20 Magazine. Editors: Giovanna Paterno, Francesca Ricci. Writings, visuals, cross-bred projects. info@20x20magazine.com www.20x20magazine.com

Succour. Fiction, Poetry, Art. Jay Clifton Editor-at-large. Editor: Anthony Banks. anthonybanks@succour.org Max Dunbar, Regional Editor, Manchester. maxdunbar@succour.org  Single issues: £4.95. Subscription (2 issues) £9.90. Submissions: submissions@succour.org www.succour.org

SAW magazine.  Editor: Colin Shaddick, 4 Masefield Avenue, Barnstaple, Devon. EX31 1QT.  Single issue: £4. Three issues: £10. Email: sawpoems@btinternet.com. Website: www.myspace.com/sawinghorse.

Stand. Matthew Welton, John Whale, Editorial Office, The School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT. Email: stand@leeds.ac.uk.

Staple Magazine, ed. Wayne Burrows, 114 – 116 St Stephen’s Road, Sneinton, Nottingham NG2 4JS, website at: www.staplemagazine.wordpress.com Publishes poetry, short fiction, artwork, essays and interviews, working to themes for each issue: recent and forthcoming themes have included East Midlands writing, the publishing business, visual arts and the links between writing, music and film. Published 3 times yearly. Current issue £10, subscription £25 for 3 issues (UK) or £30 (non-UK), selected back issues available from £3.50 to £5.00 (P&P included).

Sand. P.O. Box 1091, Tyne & Wear SR2 8WD. No more than six poems in the body of an email to sandpoems@aol.com or to postal address. Short stories up to 2,500 wds. Now annual anthology £5 per year. Contact: sandpress@btinternet.com or kcadwellender@btinternet.com.

Seam. Frank Dullaghan, 10 Collingwood Road, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 5YB

Sein und Werden (Being & Becoming). Experimental art and literature. Email: seinundwerden@gmail.com. Editor: Rachel Kendall, 19 St. Aiden’s Grove, Salford, Lancs. M7 3TN. One issue £3.50 inc p+p. Cheque payable to Rachel Kendall. Subs: one year, four issues: US/Canada $26 (Canada add $5 USD) via paypal to spyros@marinatingthemind.com. UK/Europe, cheque/postal/international money order to Rachel Kendall, for £14.00 or €20.00 Or via paypal to r_p_kendall@hotmail.com. Website: www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/sein.html

The Slab. Wilton Carhoot, PO Box 600, Hull HU5 3WY. 

Smiths Knoll. Michael Laskey, Goldings, Goldings Lane, Leiston, Suffolk IP16 4EB.

Smoke. Published by Windows Project, Liver House, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY. 80p single issue, plus postage. £4 for five issues (including post).

Shadowtrain. Poems, Prose poems, articles, reviews, translations. Website: www.shadowtrain.com Web-based only. Editor: Ian Seed.

Slightly Foxed – The Real Reader’s Quarterly. Entertaining articles on literature. Publisher and co-editor: Gail Pirkis, 67 Dickinson Court, 15 Brewhouse Yard, London. EC1V 4JX. Annual subscription: £32 (4 issues). Back issues available on request. (£8). Website: www.foxedquarterly.com.

Snapshots (for Haiku) and Tangled Hair (for Tanka). Website: www.snapshotpress.co.uk. Editor: John Barlow, Snapshot Press, PO Box 132.

Spokes. Editor: Gina Wisker, UCLT, 204 Eastings, APU, East Road, Cambridge, Cambs CB1 1PT. Relaunch of magazine, now an international poetry e-zine: welcomes poetry, short fictional prose, images. New editions twice yearly. Accepts only electronic submissions – submit text in Word or PDF format – images in JPG,JPEG, PNG or GIF. Submit work by email or, for larger pieces exceeding 1Mb, send a CD-ROM containing submission to postal address. Be prepared to wait 3-4months for a reply. Back copies available – e-mail request to ucltoffice@apu.ac.uk and include SPOKES BACK-ISSUE as the subject. Email: ucltoffice@apu.ac.uk. Website: www.simegen.com/writers/spokes.

Stride magazine. Website: http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/

Snorkel. Website: www.snorkel.org.au. Australasian web-based anthology. Editor: Cath Vidler. E-mail submissions only (unpublished work). 5 poems or 2 prose pieces as attachments Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format, or text included in body of email to: snorkel@snorkel.org.au. Allow 6 weeks for reply.

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Tears in the Fence. David Caddy, 38 Hod View, Stourpaine, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 8TN or Sarah Hopkins, 1 Leat Park, Western Road, Ashburton, Devon TQ13 7ED. Subscriptions: £12 for 3 issues. Single copies £5 inc. post & packing. Subscriptions to David Caddy, cheques made out to Tears in the Fence.

Transmission. www.transmissionhq.org Single issues £4. Short Stories. The Transmissions team is at Transmission, PO Box 209, Stockport. SK7 1UX and info@transmissionhq.org however Submissions are currently closed.  Winner of 2006 Incwriters OCL(M) Award.

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The Ugly Tree. Poetry. www.flapjackpress.co.uk Final issue 20 available at £4.

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Vallum. Contemporary poetry, essays, interviews, reviews. Email: info@vallummag.com. PO Box 48003, Montreal, OC, Canada. H2V 4S8. Subs: Canada (Individual) $16.50. Outside N.America (Individual) $17.50. Submissions: send by regular post only. Poems only read Oct1 – Jan 31. Website: www.vallummag.com

The View From Here. Print & on-line. Author interviews, book reviews, original fiction, articles. Mike French, editor. Submissions: submit.your.words@gmail.com Reviews: viewfromhere@primemail.com Print issue: $5.49 Website: www.viewfromheremagazine.com

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Wasafiri. Fiction, essays, poetry.  Edited by Susheila Nasta, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 ENP. Tel:020 7556 6110. 3 times a year: March, July, November.  £29/$50 for one year. Email: wasafir@open.ac.uk. Website: www.wasafiri.org.

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