the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature

by Alexandros Plasatis (Lead Editor), Rubina Bala (Fiction editor), Asiye Betül (Fiction editor)

featuring refugee & immigrant writers from around the world

fiction || poetry || non-fiction || artworks

9 short stories, 20 poems, 7 non-fiction pieces, and poems, prose & artworks
from the Debordering Futures conference at the University of Cambridge

172 pages, Paperback

Published October 3, 2024

About the author

Alexandros Plasatis is an immigrant who writes fiction in English, his second language. His first book, Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness: a novel in stories (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021), was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. Stories from this book have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net. His work has been published in US, UK, Indian and Canadian magazines and anthologies. He has a PhD in ethnography-based Creative Writing, and works with displaced and homeless people. He is the editor of "the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature". www.alexandrosplasatis.com