New Writing on Granta.com
Poetry|The Online Edition
from Affiliation
Mira Mattar
‘on our knees in bathrooms internationally / dependent on a disguise of sovereignty’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
On Vulnerability
Katherine Angel
‘Is anyone an authority on themselves, whether on their sexuality or anything else?’
Fiction|The Online Edition
Fat Bodies
Forsyth Harmon
‘Justine was at my lab table, pulling at the ends of her black bob, shoving her hair into her mouth.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
Two Poems
Wendy Xu
‘Somewhere in America a white boss / in a dandelion dress-shirt is raising / his voice again’
Fiction|The Online Edition
Return
Niki Bañados
An excerpt from the graphic novel, Return, by Niki Bañados.
Interview
Jay Bernard
An interview with the winner of the 2020 Sunday Times / University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award.
In Conversation
Nadia Owusu & Caleb Azumah Nelson
‘Out of those roots, radical possibilities bloom. Future is created with each note.’
Interview
Daisy Lafarge
‘The earliest life on the planet was life without air, anaerobic bacteria that slowly died off when oxygen began to pollute the atmosphere’.
Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While
‘Perhaps in isolation a new form of communication is emerging, expressing what readers and writers have always told one another, via books and letters and on the literary stage: I hear you. You are not alone.’
– Sigrid Rausing, Editor of Granta
On Running
Larissa Pham
‘This makes more sense to me as a bodily practice: that desire to push one’s physical limits well beyond their natural bounds.’
Highlights From Granta Books
Recommended Reading
A Bleed of Blue
Amy Key
‘I was trying simultaneously to numb the grief I felt and to burrow into that grief, so I could stand in it.’
Qualities of Earth
Rebecca May Johnson
‘Allotment earth is like the cache on a public computer, it holds too much information.’
Laundry Bills and Manifestos
Francesca Wade
‘The great pleasure of archive work lies in searching for these secrets known and unknown.’
Roses
Legacy Russell
‘What if we are not ‘well-behaved’? What then?’
Legacy Russell on her father and the FBI.
News, Prizes and Events
‘Manifest’ by ’Pemi Aguda in Best of the Net Anthology
‘Manifest’ by ’Pemi Aguda has been selected for the Best of the Net Anthology.
Don Mee Choi Wins National Book Award for Poetry
Don Mee Choi has won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry for DMZ Colony. An excerpt from this book, ‘The Orphans’, was first published on Granta.com
Will Harris and Daisy Lafarge shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize
RENDANG by Will Harris and Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020.
