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A pitch event for MENA writers created by & for marginalised voices. Next event: April 2027. Hosts: @ptissem | @yaldacollection | @krystalelkhoury menapit.carrd.co

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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
No problem! We’re cultivating a community beyond the pitch event so keep an eye out for some great stuff coming up🙏🏼❤️
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hi, we're going through posts and making sure everyone is aware since sites like Pinterest (which were once great photo resources) have become inundated with AI images. Sites like Unsplash and Pexels are great alternatives for sourcing non-AI images for pitches!
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hi MK, please note the event has a strict no AI policy in the pitches!
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hi MK, please note the event has a strict no AI policy in the pitches!
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hi MK, please note the event has a strict no AI policy in the pitches!
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Thanks for taking a look!🥹 we’ve also saved pitches on our IG and twitter! We hope you find some gems❤️
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Morgan Wilson @authormorganw.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm just now checking out #Menapit and will be going through pitches today and tomorrow! If I like your pitch please feel free to query me using the link below! This link never closes so you can submit when you're ready 😊 QueryTracker.net/query/Morgan...
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
What’s next after #MENApit? Fear not agents and editors, we’ve got you covered:
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
#MENApit writers if we somehow missed your post (you didn't get a like/repost/comment from us) let us know (DM or tag us in a reply under your pitch). We want to make sure agents see all your brilliant work when they view your posts on our main page!
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karimecc.bsky.social @karimecc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
EVEN GODS DIE. Even Gods bleed. Anuki learns it the hard way. She can't save her brother's life or stop the war. She's been exiled to another realm, and the war goddess Sekhmet wants Anuki to free her. If she accepts, she could save her father... or burn out #MENAPit #YA #QU #F
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karimecc.bsky.social @karimecc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Egyptian gods divided the Staff of Maat -a weapon with the power to transform reality- into 3 pieces: 1 for Ra, 1 for Ptah, and 1 for the traitor god Amon. Now their descendants will fight for the pieces, ignoring a conspiracy in the shadows to kill them all #MENApit #YA #F #QU
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
#menapit writers how we doing? 👀Last push to the finish line! The event ends at 11:59 PM EST, get your pitch in one last time!
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
hi Lama, please be mindful of the pitch even rules (1 post per 1 hour), happy posting!
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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Lama // لاما ⚔️🇵🇸📚 @thebookesquire.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
PALESTINIAN X CITY OF BRASS X TPW Cursed by the blood-soaked decisions of their ancestors, a banished prince, a brooding commander, and warrior woman must save their empire from a genocidal king. 🕊️ jinn blood parchment magic v. elemental magic 🕊️ sentient sword 🕊️ slowburn #MENAPIT #Qu #A #F #R
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Lakshmi @lakshmiwriter.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Imagine moving to New York City with your best friends in search of romance and adventure—everything you’ve avoided for the first 22 years of your life. Only for the boys across the street to quickly become your rivals—in business and otherwise. #menapit #qu #NA #literaryagent
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Madiha Shafqat @madihashafqat.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Ayesha dribbles through Texas, dodging prejudice as a Muslim-American teen. Decades earlier, her teen grandmother fled the fields of 1947 India during the violent Partition. Bound by struggle across generations, both must reclaim who they are or be lost to a world coming undone. #MENApit #YA
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Olivia Emerick @oliviaemerickagent.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Looking through #MENApit today so if I like something of yours and you haven’t queried me yet…
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Lakshmi @lakshmiwriter.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
#menapit #NA #psychthriller #Qu HIDDEN CRACKS is a dual-POV psychological thriller that follows the unraveling relationship between Michael Huang and Amali Rai, exposing how obsession distorts love—and how control can turn deadly.
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Goalie Draft @morn3.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Princess Alehandra de Landor leads her nation to its first defeat in 300 years. Now dishonered, she must confront the infernal magic of the Shepherd of Souls to redeem her succesion. #MENApit #QU #F #A
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Tina Ehsanipour تینا 📚 @tinaehsanipour.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Only by teaming up with her best friend Mari and the mysterious ancestor who visits her dreams can 17yr old Azadeh get to the root of a generations-long family curse, before it claims her too. THE VANISHING STATION x LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM #MENApit #Qu #YA #MY #MR #OWN
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Rania the Writer @raniathewriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
@menapitch.bsky.social #MENAPIT #menapitchevent A desperate writer accepts an invitation to an elite retreat that guarantees publication...and slowly realizes what it's *actually* harvesting from its residents. #Pub #Qu #H #SF #A #NA #OWN The Centre x Catherine House x Bunny Professionally edited.
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Tasha Livingstone is ✨AGENTED✨ @tashalivings.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
THE CROOKED JACKAL features magical mobsters like Fonda Lee’s “Green Bone Saga,” with the technological advancements of Kate Dylan’s “Mindwalker,” and an LGBT+ cast similar to Makana Yamamoto’s “Hammajang Luck.” Rep: @laurenbieker.bsky.social #MENApit #AG #OWN #LGBT #A #NA #SFF #F #SF
Tropes and treats: QPOC MMC & LI (#own), transdimensional smuggling, stabby X cinnamon roll, magical mafia, friends-to-lovers, anticolonial. Fanart by Ikki.
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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME 6 Keys 🔑 5 Centuries of magical politics ✨ 4 Djinn on a mission ⚔️ 3 Threats Mona Al’Maii must navigate 💀 2 Hot-headed, kindred souls 🖤 1 Secret that could ruin it all 🧭 The Knight and the Moth x Heavenly Bodies #MENApit #RF #Qu #NA
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Rania the Writer @raniathewriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
@menapitch.bsky.social #MENAPIT #Pub #Qu #H #SF #A #NA #OWN On a remote Trinidadian island, surrounded by douen, the soucouyant, La Diablesse, and the devil in the silk cotton tree, a grieving sister makes a deal she can't take back. When we were Birds x Mexican Gothic Professionally edited.
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Official 🦋 for #MENApit! @menapitch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
ICYMI #MENApit writers: ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Sophia Vahdati - Writer @sophiavahdati.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
SEVERANCE x INDUSTRY 🕴️Hunger Games for burnt-out millennials who are too tired for revolution🕴️ A rebellious young woman struggles to hold on to both her morals and her life in a country ruled by a Big Tech company that executes people deemed unemployable. #MENAPIT #WIP
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Rania the Writer @raniathewriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#menapitchevent #MENApit #SPF #A #NA #syrianvoices #QU #PUB Haneen works for a Company that shows people the lives they were too afraid to want. A Syrian calligrapher gluing boot soles. A refugee building for a brother who'll never see it. She's guided them all home. Until her last case.
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Taurus @tauruswrites.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
WARCROSS X BLOOD DEBTS While tech-savvy Viva uses magic and coding to stop the army of undead, her twin sister, Tasia, is resurrected by witches forcing her to kill. 🔮 MAGIC VS 👩‍💻 CODING 🤖 AI VS 👻 SPIRITS 💻 TECH VS 🍁 NATURE WHO WILL WIN? #SF #F #MENApit #YA #Qu
smart glasses, grimoire, high tech world, voodoo doctor
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Shida Ketzer (follows back all fiction writers) @wisteraverse.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
An engineer. A Dragon hoarding romance books. A dysfunctional family of gods. Not the start of a joke, but Sy's undoing. When her ex, the chosen one, is murdered, gutsy Sy fights the gods to escape a fate worse than death: becoming the god's eternal slave #MENApit #Qu #F #OWN #LGBT #POC #disability
Pitch:  When the chosen Empress is assassinated, her disabled and gutsy ex-girlfriend, Sy, must triumph over a dysfunctional family of ancient gods or submit to fulfilling the chosen’s grim fate as the gods’ eternal slave and weapon against mortals.
94,000 words Crossover Fantasy
Comps: 
T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone
Damsel (2024 film) 
Hannah Kaner’s Godkiller 
Margaret Owen’s Little ThievesThemes & Tropes: 
- Forbidden Love	- Hot Banter
- Feminine Rage	- Anti-Chosen
- Found Family	- Second Chances
- Dark Humor		- Identity 
- Friends-to-lovers	- Faustian Bargain
- Choosing vs. being chosen 
- Dual-Timeline

Representation: 
- LGBTQIA+ 		- BIPOC 
- Mental Health 	- Disability
- Neurodivergence	- Chronic IllnessMoodboard:
Dark fantasy Victorian vibes with purple color composition. 
Top row, left-to-right: a Byronic handsome man in black, a palace, a dark figure burning in hellfire, a masked female assassin of dark complexion holding a dagger, a serpentine forest trail at night marked with red flowers. 
At the center, next to a silver plume, is the text: “This world, my dear, is the slaughterhouse of noble ideals.” 
Bottom row, left-to-right: a dark gaslit street, a gaslit city blanketed in coal smog at night, a young woman in a Victorian gown, wrought-iron gates opened to a foreboding foggy estate in the dark, a trail of red petals leading to a dark stone temple gate.
A gaunt mouse snatched bread crumbs from my lunch tray. I did not have the heart to give her a name, afraid I might lose her, too.
The lingering scent of mud and mildew hung in the air, a long-forgotten tomb. Through the thin mattress, the bed’s cast-iron rods dug into my ribs. I clenched my jaw to keep my teeth from chattering and pulled the threadbare blanket tighter around my body, hugging my knees to my chest. It did little against the chill creeping into my bones. The raging blizzard had transformed the courtyard into a churning white sea, rattling the broken window shutters hanging askew.
I was not allowed visitors or to set foot outside. My only reminder of life beyond these walls was the peeling wallpaper’s faded floral pattern. The medications I was forced to swallow left a cotton taste in my mouth and a dull ache in my skull.
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Athena Lambrou @athena-lambrou.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
They Hate Each OtherXLove Simon Ares is a nice Cypriot boy. He’s the star of his basketball team & is dating his childhood best friend.That is until his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother, comes to stay with him upending his life&heart. ✨Big 5 impr. editor interest #MENAPit #YA #C #R #LGBT #OWN #Qu
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Julie @juliehdwriting.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
KPDH x THE HONEYS INFESTATION, my WIP about a girl group forming a hivemind through the power of codependency and creepy crawlies, but pitched through funny posts and with no further context 🦟 Tag yourself!! Which one are you? #MENApit #AG #WIP #H #YA
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Rebecca Matte @rebeccamatte.com · 10/04/2026
So excited to be looking in on #MENApit today! Already seen some excellent pitches - I will leave a comment and a link if I want to see more!
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Yalda is AGENTED💫 @yaldacollection.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Have you heard? 👀 WORKED 2 DEATH has gone under the knife 🔪 : A ransom plot goes horribly awry when a trio of cash-strapped colleagues kidnap their nepobaby manager on a work trip, and find themselves embroiled in the lethal world of Fintech’s elite. #menapit #agented
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